No Ink- or something- tober this year.

But maybe I should indulge myself with some martian pictures, from MER, MSL or maybe Phoenix. Or maybe from other places. Each day this month :)

Day 1 is a picture from Spirit, taken on Sol 1192, post sunset. Very smooth view and soft shadows. Grissom Hill is presenting its familiar profile.

Day 2 is an old one. From Opportunity, showing that "sea of sand" during her trip to Endurance Crater from Victoria Crater, taken on Sol 2229.

Day 3. I stick to Opportunity.

Older picture. Bahia Blanca, at Victoria Crater, Sol 1075. This place was pretty magical. Roving from Endeavour Crater. Flat. Flat. (Purgatory…) Flat. and *boom*. Outcrops, layers, big crater.

This pic is 13 years old. Yup.

Day 3 - Keep the Opportunity. This time, climbing the hill, at Endeavour Crater. Sol 3754.`

It was in 2014. Yes, 6 years…

(For the previous tweet, you should read "Day 4")

Day 5 - Still Opportunity. At Victoria Crater, during the Great 2007 Storm. I made the sky extension, with a faint sun (to scale). It was Sol 1227. She survived this storm… not the next.

Day 6 - Curiosity. When she had crossed the dune named Dingo Gap, on Sol 538. For me, it was a great moment to live !

Day 7 - Curiosity during the 2018 dust storm. On Sol 2082, the light was dim, in this MaHLI self-portrait, I reconstructed the look of the sun, with that pale blue haze. We can see those blue reflections on the rovers wheels and body.

Day 8 - Curiosity. An "old" one (feels awkward for me to say that). Bradbury landing site, Sol 3 & 13 pictures. My first really big postcard from Curiosity (I still have the one printed by the MSSS team they have sent me).

Day 9 - A little bit more of Curiosity. Sol 409, a late afternoon panoramic, made with Navcam pictures. Those are b&w pictures, I had to colorize, by hand, the whole scenery.

Day 10 - Back to Spirit. The rover was at West Valley, heading to Vaun Braun mount. She will not go any further. The battery. The winter coming. The sand.

Day 11 - Columbia Hill seen by Spirit, on Sol 1326. There is also the El Dorado dunefield on the flank of the hill.

Day 12 - No rovers this time. Phoenix lander. I made this one from PDS datas. A flat landscape, filled with those hexagon produced by ice defrost/frost. On the horizon, the crater Heimdall.

Day 13 - Opportunity, view from Cape Tribulation, on the rim of Endeavour crater. The opposite hills of the rim were hypnotic, with that little crater. They have been saw from Victoria, and have been a focus point during the journey.

Day 14 - Maybe I'll stay with distant views. More distant. From Curiosity, on Sol 1856, showing us the view of Gale crater deck and rim. Which are more than just a rim, but true mountains, as higher as the French Pyrénees (3000 km high).

Day 15 - Continuing distant views. With Spirit, a pretty old one. Sol 510, made at Tennessee Valley, before reaching for Columbia Hill summit. We can see the view going on over Gusev Crater, and a fuzzy mountain on the horizon.

Day 16 - No colors this time. But a full pan. Curiosity at Kimberley. A nice place. We are beginning to "feel" the slopes of Mount Sharp. The rover was starting her ascension of the mountain.

Day 17 - Cabo Frio at Victoria Crater, from Opportunity, Sol 952. Made with PDS data.

Day 18 - A Mastcam100 mosaic showing some distant features on the horizon, the slopes of Mount Sharp. Curiosity of course this time..

Day 19 - Just going randomly through my archives. Curiosity, Sol 1611. A Navcam panoramic taken just after sunset, showing Mount Sharp and the landscape in a soft lighting. Colorized after stitching.

Day 20 - A little bit bigger. A full color pan, including a colorized navcam rover deck.
Curiosity when she was at Vera Rubin ridge. In this kind of pan, we can clearly see the ground there is above us, and the ground under us.

Day 21 - Opportunity took this nice view of a crater named Conception, on her road to Endeavour Crater (we can see some features on the horizon). A pretty young crater, with clear ejectas all around.

Day 22 - Opportunity at Endeavour crater. She was climbing the rim, going to Solender Point, on Sol 3476.

Day 23 - Curiosity on Sol 1421 when she was reaching Murray Buttes (not visible here). What is important here are the dunefields and the rover shadow pointing toward it.
A pretty nice place !

Day 24 - At Murray Buttes, on Sol 1454, Curiosity was taken this picture of this butte in particular. Look at those layers !

Day 25 - I'm closing this week with a Curiosity picture taken on Sol 603, showing Mount Remarkable at a place named The Kimberley. Clear skies, Sun high, perfect transparency of the atmosphere.

Day 26 - Last days of this thingtober.
Opportunity. Before reaching that big crater that is Endeavour, she visited that smaller crater named Santa Maria. A bit smaller than Endurance I would guess.
Behind it, the interior of Endeavour is visible.

Day 27 - Opportunity, Sol 2220. Journey to Endeavour crater. Still far, but more and more visible. It was a joy to guess and identify the feature rising from the horizon.

Day 28 - Curiosity was at Namib Dune on Sol 1196. It was a great place, look at the size of this dune !

And yes, this is a colorized navcam panoramic, not a Mastcam picture.

Day 29 - It will my last Opportunity picture. A tribute to this intrepid rover. She was at Marathon Valley, climbing to the ridge.
A colorized Navcam picture, dedicated to this rover, and her amazing team.

Day 30 - On the beginning of her mission, Curiosity was exploring a place named Yellowknife Bay, where there are alluvial deposit.
She took this color on twilight. I then added some sky.