Re: Stereo in space

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 00:27:32 -0500
>From: P3D John W Roberts writes:
>
>
>The Mars Pathfinder mission that they're trying to launch again tonight
>(Tuesday night) incorporates stereo imaging in the lander part, or in the
>rover, or in both (I haven't had time to find the Web page yet.) The rover
>uses a laser scanning system to detect obstacles, so I'm not sure whether it
>has an imager as well.
>
>The primary mission of the rover is to inspect large rocks.
>
>John R
>

I like large rocks. Wasn't there a discussion a few months ago on P3D of
this stereo camera? Is this the one that has too wide a base and significant
toe-in? It will still be interesting...

I was intrigued by the recent news discussion of water on the moon. They
just completed mapping the whole moon or some significant portion of it with
a little heard of military satellite. They must have thousands of stereo
pairs that were used in the mapping process. Is there any possibility of
getting access to some of these as stereo pairs? 

Larry Berlin

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