Assembled from 15 overlapping L-MastCam sub-frame Bayer reconstructed images from sol 4573. It's the rover's current workspace. Not sure how long they will stay here, but the journey to the next major science waypoint (Boxworks) to the south will continue soon.
I would really like to see these images not in """""true color""""" but in different renditions chosen by artists that still convey the reality of the image but put it in different lights that challenge the viewer to not simply file the image from another fucking planet as another beige image from beige planet.
I don't mean this as a criticism, but the actual texture to these images is truly otherworldly, it is just hard to appreciate when presented with such a monotonous color palette.
Back in the day, someone used to do something like that with MSL images, but not seen any in ages, maybe someone here can take up the challenge :)
I'm as far from being an artist as you can get, but I like what you and supersquirrel are aiming at. As you know, I've been thinking about data visualization and presentation for these missions a fair bit recently. Personally, I find natural color images like this one from the curvilinear unit plenty spectacular and readable as is, but in general, a lot more work needs to be done to convey these missions to people.
If I've learned anything from supersquirrel's point, it's that we need to show multiple perspectives on the landscapes these rovers see. The missions have a natural tendency to do most of their imaging during the middle of the day, but that hazy dusty mid-day illumination is nothing like the sharp lighting that morning and evening shadows bring to the landscape. At the same time, I'm always worried about data/visual overload in these situations...