3D Digital Reconstruction of the Kimberley Outcrop (Gale Crater, Mars) from Photogrammetry using Multi-Scale Imagery from Mars Science Laboratory

Gwénaël Caravaca (1) , Stéphane Le Mouélic (1) , Nicolas Mangold (1) , Jonas L'Haridon , Laetitia Le Deit (1) , Marion Massé (1)

1 LPG - Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112]

Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photo-grammetry is an efficient, low-cost and powerful method to reconstruct Digital Outcrop Models (DOM) and/or specific geological object, only from a set of pho-tos [1]. This method is particularly well-suited in remote planetary exploration such as that of Gale Crater, Mars, using extensive imagery data from the Curiosity rover mission [2]. Using a set of multi-scale images from 3 different instruments aboard Curiosity, we were able to compute a high-resolution and highly-detailed full color DOM of the Kimberley outcrop (sols 603-630), that was then integrated into a Virtual Reality (VR) environment for visualization and geological characterization.

Domaines: Stratigraphie; Sciences de la Terre; Planétologie

Gwénaël Caravaca, Stéphane Le Mouélic, Nicolas Mangold, Jonas L'Haridon, Laetitia Le Deit, et al.. 3D Digital Reconstruction of the Kimberley Outcrop (Gale Crater, Mars) from Photogrammetry using Multi-Scale Imagery from Mars Science Laboratory. 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2019, Mar 2019, The Woodlands, United States. 179, pp.300 - 314, 2012, ⟨10.13140/RG.2.2.19734.57929⟩. ⟨hal-02882363⟩