ANDREW KENNEY
RESEARCH / PHOTOGRAMMETRY

Provenance / Naming / Publication checks

The source
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What the files establish, what the primary references establish, and what remains open. Working project names are not treated as mission identifications.

Instrument identified; product timing needs review

Perseverance / Descent

Capture: Mars 2020 · EDL imagery
Instrument: Rover down-look camera
Saved scene: 380 solved cameras · stored terrain mesh

The ED instrument code identifies the rover down-look camera. The landing event was February 18, 2021, but these saved labels contain sol 0002 and later clock values. Those product fields are not treated as independently verified descent timing.

Timing and scale: Clock fields are present. Physical scale and the EDL clock-to-event relationship remain unverified.

First saved label
EDF_0002_0667110746_695ECV_N0010052EDLC00002_0010LUJ01_1200

Last saved label
EDF_0002_0667111219_037ECV_N0010052EDLC00002_0010LUJ01_1200

Local camera-table SHA-256: a990e00974a698bb67f3c628a368c29292855bdd88e2d686743eb0a829036d79

Primary references
  1. NASA PDS Analyst’s Notebook · Mars 2020 filenames
    ED, HN, ZL and ZR instrument fields; sol; spacecraft-clock seconds and milliseconds; sequence fields.
  2. NASA PDS Analyst’s Notebook · Product types
    Camera FDR base-image type and ECV video-frame type.
  3. NASA · Perseverance trajectory reconstruction through landing
    Perseverance descent and landing event occurred February 18 2021. Does not resolve the later clock/sol tokens in the selected EDL product labels.

Filename matched to official catalog PIA24598

Ingenuity / Flight 6

Capture: May 22, 2021 · sol 91
Instrument: Navigation camera
Saved scene: 76 solved cameras · mesh and tie points

This is a processed derivative, not untouched mission pixels: the saved labels record Topaz enhancement and sharpening. NASA describes a change in capture cadence during the source sequence. Displacement per extracted frame is therefore not a speed measurement.

Timing and scale: Variable original cadence: 3.3 frames/s, then one frame every 2 s during final descent. The selected derivative frames still need a frame-to-time map.

First saved label
BAKE_666_Deck_001_R1_PIA24598-1280__00000-topaz-enhance-4x-sharpen-sharpen-sharpen

Last saved label
BAKE_666_Deck_001_R1_PIA24598-1280__00525-topaz-enhance-4x-sharpen-sharpen-sharpen

Local camera-table SHA-256: 264a3441ea955d4c0d5c31520fb53ab99bd5596059f1e78797f8272cb60b1d8a

Primary references
  1. NASA · Ingenuity Flight Six Navcam Image / PIA24598
    Flight 6, May 22 2021; last 29 seconds; variable capture cadence; NASA/JPL-Caltech credit.
  2. NASA · Ingenuity flight log
    Flight 6 = sol 91, May 22 2021. Flight 36 = sol 642, December 10 2022; table visually checked on pages 1 and 2.

Camera identified from native NL codes; sol groups from saved labels

Curiosity / Sols 2306 + 2309

Capture: Two separate capture groups
Instrument: Left navigation camera
Saved scene: 19 solved cameras · mesh and tie points

The native NLA identifier means the left Navcam in A-side configuration. Sol2306 and Sol2309 are prefixes in the saved local labels. The exact terrain target and full acquisition labels have not been matched to each original product.

Timing and scale: Within-group interval rates use saved clock fields; no line or speed is inferred across the gap between sols. Metric scale is unverified.

First saved label
Sol2306_NLA_602215411EDR_F0732448NCAM00203M_

Last saved label
Sol2309_NLA_602485557EDR_F0732562NCAM00203M_

Local camera-table SHA-256: 96e34eb7c1227b9c93ac2ecab59e61b839ff62becb6d587d8e0f2acf4648c50c

Primary references
  1. NASA PDS Analyst’s Notebook · Curiosity OPGS filenames
    NL = left navigation camera; A-side configuration; SCLK and EDR fields. The added Sol prefix is not part of this native filename schema.
  2. NASA · Sols 2306–2307: Stepping Up to the Edge
    Curiosity operations context and low-texture terrain; not an exact target identification for each scan.

All 22 solved camera labels begin ZLF_0022

Perseverance / Mastcam-Z left

Capture: Sol 22 · sequence ZCAM07000
Instrument: Mastcam-Z left · RGB products
Saved scene: 22 solved cameras / 24 source images · stored mesh

The source project was named “Mars Mast Cam Stereo 001”, but this selected 22-camera solve contains only left-camera labels. The public title has been corrected; the original project name is retained in the source record.

Timing and scale: Pointing change over the intervals in the source clock can be shown. It is an interval-average camera-axis rate, not an instantaneous motor rate or vehicle speed.

First saved label
ZLF_0022_0668904939_064FDR_N0030770ZCAM07000_1100LUJ01_1200

Last saved label
ZLF_0022_0668905470_064FDR_N0030770ZCAM07000_1100LUJ01_1200

Local camera-table SHA-256: 233df6b550ba4119fe539664e645354b475fca1ed05a5dca54fc7f78caa11aa6

Primary references
  1. NASA PDS Analyst’s Notebook · Mars 2020 filenames
    ED, HN, ZL and ZR instrument fields; sol; spacecraft-clock seconds and milliseconds; sequence fields.
  2. NASA PDS Analyst’s Notebook · Product types
    Camera FDR base-image type and ECV video-frame type.

186 aligned labels: 94 ZLF + 92 ZRF, all sol 0003

Perseverance / Mastcam-Z panorama

Capture: Sol 3 · February 21, 2021
Instrument: Mastcam-Z left + right
Saved scene: 186 solved cameras · 406,805 stored tie points · no mesh shown

The selected component contains 186 solved cameras from 284 source records. Its active mesh was unavailable; a stale mesh with incompatible coordinates was excluded. The source date is contextualized by the Mastcam-Z team’s sol 3 release, not by equating this solve with their published 142-image mosaic.

Timing and scale: Left and right acquisition groups stay distinct. Pointing rates, not translational flight speed, are the appropriate display quantity.

First saved label
ZLF_0003_0667217146_000FDR_N0010052AUT_04096_034085J01_1200

Last saved label
ZRF_0003_0667222078_000FDR_N0010052AUT_04096_034085J01_1200

Local camera-table SHA-256: fc7419279f2f16397d0bbe2f4e1b9c4fe6e3a6b2f7a8c9b172abf7c867353a94

Primary references
  1. NASA PDS Analyst’s Notebook · Mars 2020 filenames
    ED, HN, ZL and ZR instrument fields; sol; spacecraft-clock seconds and milliseconds; sequence fields.
  2. Mastcam-Z instrument team · Sol 3 panorama
    Sol 3 corresponds to February 21 2021; mission panorama context. The team’s 142-image left-eye mosaic is not the same count as this mixed-eye saved solve.

Saved source chain verified; exact launch is not verified

Rocket Lab / Onboard study

Capture: Screen recording dated June 20, 2024
Instrument: Onboard footage · exact mission pending
Saved scene: 425 solved cameras · stored surface and tie points

“No Time Toulouse”, Electron’s 50th launch, is a date-based candidate—not a confirmed footage identification. Clouds and exhaust can move independently, so matching them does not establish a rigid terrain model. This remains an existing saved solve, not a fresh solve of the small MOV in Archive.zip.

Timing and scale: The original recording and selected-frame cadence are not calibrated. The existing readout describes displacement per numbered frame, not physical speed.

First saved label
COV_07_Tests_001_Screen Recording 2024-06-20 at 11.26.16 AM__00000

Last saved label
COV_07_Tests_001_Screen Recording 2024-06-20 at 11.26.16 AM__00424

Local camera-table SHA-256: 54717bc1521b37fde9ff8e221a2ce0f6a90c4a1dba9de7713f7b2b5ae5fe81e9

Primary references
  1. Rocket Lab · Post-launch report for Electron 50
    No Time Toulouse launched June 20 2024, 18:13 UTC / June 21 NZST. Date correlation only; not a verified match to the saved onboard frames.

Separate archive solve / not merged with Flight 6

Ingenuity / Flight 36

The earlier 36-camera solve uses HNM_0642 labels. NASA’s flight log maps sol 642 to Flight 36 on December 10, 2022. The current 76-frame mesh-bearing visualization instead derives from PIA24598 / Flight 6. They are separate captures, not interchangeable versions of a single flight.

This additional source identity is documented here. No new Flight 36 mesh render is claimed.

HNM_0642_0723948540_338ECM_N0360001HELI00492_0000LUJ02

Local evidence record ↗ · NASA flight log, page 2 ↗

Candidate only / do not use as a confirmed public title

Rocket Lab: “No Time Toulouse”?

The saved frame labels point to a screen recording made on June 20, 2024. Rocket Lab’s post-launch report places Electron’s 50th mission, “No Time Toulouse”, at 18:13 UTC that day. This is a plausible lead, not proof that the recording depicts that flight.

Frame-by-frame matching against an identified original broadcast is still required. The small MOV inside Archive.zip is a distinct archive item; its name and date are not sufficient to connect it to the 425-frame saved solve.

Source conflict recorded: Rocket Lab’s current mission-detail page carries June 19; its post-launch announcement says June 20 UTC / June 21 NZST. The announcement is used for this historical candidate date. No mission identity has been silently assigned to the study.

Read the post-launch report ↗

Original process evidence / downloaded from the supplied archive

Process and output provenance

The collection log, sorting diagram, stitch test and Mast Cam Scan Details film come from Andrew’s MARS portfolio folder. The film visibly includes sol 3 image labels and a 284-image project. That supports its relationship to the panoramic study family, but does not establish a byte-identical match to the mesh revision used in any reduced viewer.

The footage is labeled as an original scan-detail recording, not as a new final artwork or a re-render of the currently available point-only panorama scene.

Before publishing exact mission claims

Remaining checks

The broader Hubble experiments were inventoried earlier but have not been decoded or included in this six-study page. This is not a claim that the complete space archive has been audited.

Primary source index

  1. NASA · Ingenuity Flight Six Navcam Image / PIA24598
    Flight 6, May 22 2021; last 29 seconds; variable capture cadence; NASA/JPL-Caltech credit.
  2. NASA PDS Analyst’s Notebook · Mars 2020 filenames
    ED, HN, ZL and ZR instrument fields; sol; spacecraft-clock seconds and milliseconds; sequence fields.
  3. NASA PDS Analyst’s Notebook · Product types
    Camera FDR base-image type and ECV video-frame type.
  4. NASA PDS Analyst’s Notebook · Curiosity OPGS filenames
    NL = left navigation camera; A-side configuration; SCLK and EDR fields. The added Sol prefix is not part of this native filename schema.
  5. Mastcam-Z instrument team · Sol 3 panorama
    Sol 3 corresponds to February 21 2021; mission panorama context. The team’s 142-image left-eye mosaic is not the same count as this mixed-eye saved solve.
  6. NASA · Sols 2306–2307: Stepping Up to the Edge
    Curiosity operations context and low-texture terrain; not an exact target identification for each scan.
  7. NASA · Perseverance trajectory reconstruction through landing
    Perseverance descent and landing event occurred February 18 2021. Does not resolve the later clock/sol tokens in the selected EDL product labels.
  8. Rocket Lab · Post-launch report for Electron 50
    No Time Toulouse launched June 20 2024, 18:13 UTC / June 21 NZST. Date correlation only; not a verified match to the saved onboard frames.
  9. NASA · Ingenuity flight log
    Flight 6 = sol 91, May 22 2021. Flight 36 = sol 642, December 10 2022; table visually checked on pages 1 and 2.