{"id":707408,"date":"2021-11-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707408"},"modified":"2021-11-05T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T09:00:00","slug":"hovering-over-martian-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707408","title":{"rendered":"Hovering over martian landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Hovering_over_martian_landscape_card_full.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From panoramas to close-ups, from 3D maps to a wheel selfie, the Earth-bound twin of ESA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/exploration.esa.int\/web\/mars\/-\/45084-exomars-rover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Rosalind Franklin<\/a> rover is testing the wide range of photo settings that will deliver the greatest science possible during the <a href=\"https:\/\/exploration.esa.int\/web\/mars\/-\/48088-mission-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ExoMars mission<\/a> on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>The target over the last few months has been the reddish and grainy, sometimes rocky surface of the Mars Terrain Simulator at the ALTEC premises in Turin, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>This simulated \u2018overflight\u2019 of the Mars-like terrain has been rendered using approximate colour and geometric information.<\/p>\n<p>PanCam does not have just one pair, but three \u2018science eyes\u2019: one high-resolution and two wide-angle cameras. The two wide-angle cameras are set 50 cm apart and form a stereo pair that images what is in front of the rover from a vantage point about two metres above the ground. Scientists create 3D pictures and depth maps by overlaying simultaneous snapshots.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2021\/11\/Hovering_over_martian_landscape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hovering over martian landscape<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From panoramas to close-ups, from 3D maps to a wheel selfie, the Earth-bound twin of ESA\u2019s Rosalind Franklin rover is testing the wide range of photo settings that will deliver&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":707409,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/707409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}