I think I might be off in places - but you can see obvious features from orbit - good stuff

mumble grumble bastard lawn bloody moss everywhere grumble mumble

Doug

The thing is - they cant really stop on the sides to investigate the interesting formations that are under the whiter rock units we've seen at Eagle, Anatolia and Fram - but above the crater floor which is covered in the usual wind blown dust and so on.

I dont see any side less than about 40 degrees at the top - even though it levels out quite nicely towards the bottom

A few sols of workout for Pancam with all filters, and plenty of Mini Tes - perhaps a drive around 1/3rd of the rim - and then off past the heatshield to the exposed rock 2km south of here.

Essentially - the same as Spirit did at Bonneville. Look but dont touch.

Thing we heard a lot about (I'm sure Nick can expand on this) was that craters 'turn over' the layering - but I dont really see much of that here?

Doug

I wouldnt drive down there

Typical earth density = 1000 mbars

Typical Mars Density = 6 - 12 mbars - typically 8

Thus, approx 0.8% the density - or 8 1/1000ths

Doug

Every century - perhaps even less frequently.

The winds may be fast on mars - but the atmosphere is so very thing it has little force.

Most of the little dimples around here will probably be secondary craters from larger impacts anyway.

Doug

This is a place for sensible discussion - not loonie babble.

Doug

Ahhh - wrong way to go about things

You look at what there is and come to conclusions on what there is.

You dont look specifically for something.

Doug

The one that appears to be sticking up a bit. Nope - not really. You look at enough rocks and you're going to see odd ones like that eventually. And lets face it - one thing Gusev isnt short of - is rocks

Doug

if you're using the dos version - thing to do is make a text file - save it as raw.bat - and in it, just have, for example...

rawid.exe 1P134052419ESF08AQP2859L5M1

put the raw.bat and rawid.exe into c:\documents and settings\your user


Then - start>programs>accesories> Command Prompt

It'll probably put you in c:\documents and setting\your user

then you simply go

raw.bat

and it'll print the results

You just edit raw.bat to have the file name you need.

You need to run it in the command prompt window because otherwise it just opens and closes in an instant.

it's very VERY usefull - esp. when the Exploratorium stuff is way way way ahead of JPL

Doug

You need to do two thing

a) give the subject a more appropriate heading. A Sol, a pancam target description etc

Give us a clue on what we're supposed to be looking at - it's a patch of typical Meridiani ground as far as I can see.

Doug

Hee hee- what a cool rock

Doug

New Route Map for Spirit - it's travelled further in the last 15 sols than it did in the first 90
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/pre..._map_sol107.jpg

I got an email back from Dr Parker saying he thought it was very nice!!!

It's like having a pop star say you've got a nice voice!!!!

Doug

Spirit's Heatshield in Super Resolution came out much better - see here

Doug

Much better than Opp's backshell and chute came out imho

Doug

http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/science/lpsc98/1536.pdf

Follow the words of Dr Tim - for he is imaging god.

Doug

Ooo - heatshield - I'll try that tomorrow.

I emailed Dr Tim Parker (the man who's job I want Sooooo badly, pity I'm in the wrong industry, wrong country, wrong continent ) - saying "here's my super res stuff and it's crap. Where's yours?"



Doug

Not sure if the results are as good as I was expecting - but hey - I'm sure Dr Parker will pull a blinder and produce something a LOT better in due course.

Doug

Or lack of filters all together - iirc, the Navcam and Hazcams are unfiltered, just the lenses and the CCDs doing their own thing. The horizon shots with L7/R1 are often so very very dark because of the over-compensation of the pseudo auto-exposure the images get put thru before being dumped online I think.


Doug