And here's a big one. (note this is at 50cm/pixel)

Abysses! (With scale )



http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001513_2650/

James

http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-46-06.html

57 million euros for a detailed study, construction starting in 3 years.

42m primary , 6m secondary!



James

Great another pool.

So the first DD was seen on sol 421, add one M-year gets us to 1089/1090.

Now on one hand DD's are going to be much harder to see this year, we can't see much of the plains and being back at 'plain level' they will not have the ground as a backdrop making them harder to see. On the other hand though, the team knows when to start looking and at what time of day this year.

Hmm, difficult, I think I'm going to go with 1094.

JAmes

No it's not. Here is the full res version - double the size so it's ~44m tall.



Oh and on refinding the mount I realized that my pixel coordinates in the filenames, taken from the 'center' values in Expressview are screen pixels and are therefore wrong if not zoomed in all the way. So some of the coordinates given so far will be wrong.

James

Since the Odyssey safe mode seems to have thrown a spanner in the works as far a images MER images are concerned, we'll have to make do with what we have. So here is the Bottomless Bay mosaic with luminosity from the full resolution L2 and colour from the L257 64x64 thumbnails.



James

Which reminds me - the CFHT image of the SMART-1 impact should be in there.

5, -4

Thanks Kenny, I hadn't made that connection.


Here are three more from the staggering Becquerel crater image.

Just north of there Climber. See post 9 in this thread.

And the Becquerel crater image is just beyond words! A screen shot doesn't really do it justice, if you can manage the 1.2Gb download then you really should get it.

Nonetheless here is a screen shot anyway.



James

There are quite a few big rocks on Clark Hill, one of those is probably what you see.


Not as big as these monsters though! (On Chawla Hill I think, although I'm a little lost. )

Quite right I'm sure, I'm no expert on this.

All I was really trying to point out is that Steve Squyres has commented recently on this issue as you "hoped" and that that was (I think, I haven't had the chance to watch it again) his take on the matter.

The layering and fracturing in Holden crater is just astonishing!

Here are some screen shots.







James

Ah OK Nirgal, I got confused by a strange list of credits.



First from the new batch

Weird, just weird.



From: http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu//images/PSP/PSP_001410_2210/

According to the tracking site that image is pointed at -19 degrees (-18 after you account to the 1 degree toe-in I think). So the right hand edge is at -10, which means it will miss Endurance.

Have you watched/listened to SS talk at the OU? In the Q'n'A, when asked about the prospects of life he mentions that although life can survive well on earth in extremely acidic environments it is not clear that it can come into being in one. On earth, the microorganisms formed in a more benign environment and *then* evolved into being able to tolerate the harsh conditions.

Oh wow!



EDIT: Replaced with a more accurate projection.

James

I think you need to fix your credit again Nirgal.



Next,

Dust lake, north of Viking 1.

Kind of reminds me of Clarke's A Fall of Moondust



James

Kind of a watershed moment with tosols drive (1039), Spirit has lost her north tilt, we have left the 'haven'.

James

Well I was wrong, SS said in his Planetary Soc. interview that it hadn't been named and in the tracking site schedule for tosol (1019) lists the observation as just:

And for people looking for them: Just off the summit you need to look slightly outside the box. The tracks are visible almost all the way from the summit to Haskin Ridge just below the lower contour.

The Pitcher's Mound is in the original crop d released by the HiRISE folks, but since you asked so nicely here is a crop of just the mound.





Yep.


Yes the red, look at the filename. I think all the greyscale images have been 'red'

James

I took it that the missed one was MGS.