Re: Pathfinder was NSA '97 Conflicts of scheduling

[P3D John Bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry B writes:

> I noticed on yesterday's news relating to the potential fossilized Martian
> bacteria that there was a planned Martian probe landing on Mars on July 4,
> 1997. This would likely be of interest to many of those interested in
> Westercon that weekend. (for those not following this thread, it's the same
> weekend and same geographical vicinity as NSA '97) I doubt that stereo views
> of the landing will be available from JPL but I would guess that they could
> develop some of their models of what's happening in stereo, if they chose
> to. That would be of interest to those in this group. Any stereophiles here
> that work for JPL? It seems that that particular weekend is scheduled to be
> very busy!!!

That would be Mars Pathfinder.  It carries a small rover with stereo 
videocamera.  Unfortunately the camera is set up with a noticeable 
convergence error, or poor windowing, or both; I can't remember right 
now.  After I noticed the problem on their web site, I corresponded with 
them for about a year showing them easy fixes but I didn't get anywhere.  
Sort of like the proverbial ant crawling up the back of the elephant I 
guess.  8-(  There were no stereophiles involved in its design to my 
knowledge.  I worked a little with them on ways of correcting the 
error with computer algorithms.  We'll see if they implement any of 
that.  The Pathfinder web site seems to be down right now but you can 
get a thumbnail on the mission from:

http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/

John B


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