With #LPSC2025 about to start, it's time to share what I've been working on during the last months.
This is a new high resolution 3D model of the Mont Mercou outcrop, that I made during my recent internship at LPG Nantes. 🧵
#Mars #NASA #Curiosity #MSL #planetaryscience #photogrammetry
The model was computed from 6825 Mastcam and Navcam images taken by the Curiosity rover in 2021.
You can check it out yourself on Sketchfab:
https://skfb.ly/psYyq
There is also a 3D-printable version you can download:
https://skfb.ly/p9MMY
This is a high-resolution Digital Outcrop Model of the Mont Mercou outcrop at the boundary of Glen Torridon clay-bearing unit and the lower sulfates unit of Gale crater, Mars. Here we have reconstructed the whole area, including the main cliff, its sides and its top. This model is made using Navcam and Mastcam photos taken between sols 3047-3117 by the rover Curiosity. The texture has been computed from Mastcam color images only. The images were preprocessed using marsimage (https://marsimage.readthedocs.io/), a python package for processing Mars rover images hosted on the PDS. Original image data is available at https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/volumes/msl. 3D Model computed by Simeon Schmauss at LPG Nantes (UMR 6112 CNRS). Contributions S. Le Mouélic / G. Caravaca (20/12/2024) Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/CNRS/OSUNA/LPG. - Mont Mercou, Gale crater on Mars - 3D model by LPG-3D
Working with so many rover images requires precise knowledge of each camera position, lens characteristics and consistent color processing across the whole dataset.
For that I've developed MarsImage, a rover image processing library written in #python.
If you're attending the conference, you can find my iPoster for some more interactive goodness and I'd be happy to see you during the virtual poster session on Wednesday!
Otherwise you can already read more about this project in my #LPSC2025 abstract: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/pdf/2074.pdf
That one is amazing, thanks for sharing!
@stim3on @astroptere Un petit exemple clin d’œil sur ce que l'on peut obtenir grâce aux données qui viennent de mars.
Il y a plein de post très intéressant sur le compte de M. Schmauß
I'm glad I lived long enough to see this.
On my dating app profile, there is a question about being able to travel to any point in time. I replied "1621 so I could try to explain to Galileo that he was right and we landed a robotic vehicle on Mars that sends back photographs that we can view on our phones."
Because omfg we really did this. It truly is amazing.
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