@pomarede I just played with the the non-Bayered file. It was not an attempt to calibrate or replicate the true colour, but just to highlight the terrain. I simply adjusted the Brightness, Contrast, Gamma brightness and sharpened it a little at the end, no science or repeatable method as many versions were binned before I got that one :)
Check out this Martian panorama, captured by Curiosity two days ago, on Sol 4174. It is made of 50 adjacent images, each 1328x1184 pixels. Let's go for some zooms๐
@pomarede Did you know there is a site that de-Bayer's these Bayer filtered MastCams.... When you use the images from the site the image credit becomes NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
@pgiulan@65dBnoise To measure all of the mechanisms on the rover, fiducials are installed all over the turret, on the end of the rover's arm, as well as on the tops of the steering actuators and on the top deck of the rover etc. The markings are a staple of machine vision systems that can serve two parallel purposes, to calibrate cameras and to calibrate various mechanisms on the rover. The one you refer to on Perseverance rover is one the smaller 'April Tags'.
Another drive by Perseverance rover on sol 1137, takes the rover further West to site number 52.0748. This L-NavCam was assembled and roughly processed using all 16 available tiles (edited as the tiles are now in)
It looks impressive enough on my 21.5 inch monitor :) Can only imagine it on a 43 :)
The path up here on the edge of the valley feels pretty safe for the rover and probably not a huge challenge for the route planners, but if they choose to visit Bright Angel on the other side of the valley, then they have to traverse down and across. That will be an interesting challenge