Sure better DEM, but with all the Opportunity images as well the crater is going to be well modeled anyway, it doesn't seem to me like it would be much of an improvement.



Of course, but they *can* also point the camera at lots of other bits of Mars - there is a lot of planet down there! I'd love to have seen another big chunk of Meridiani than the same bit *again*.

Anybody know what the reason was for taking another image of the Opportunity site. I don't see how that much would be gained from it.

James

I think that has been pretty clear from not long after Oppy arrived, several of us have been analyzing the slopes, MRO isn't the only spacecraft looking at this crater.



No not really.

30 degrees is pretty steep if the surface is loose. Luckily it looks like there are places where the slope is a lot less than 30 so we'll see, should be OK imho. I think the critical issue is going to be finding assessable outcrops, going up to the base of these cliffs is likely to be steep and slippery with many areas ruled out due to shade and inclination requirements.

Tracks from Gong Gong to Home Plate with a bit of contrast enhancement.

A close up of part of the "Promised Land"

Arad

Looks like someone has put some corrugated iron over the abyss.

All the new streaks are visible.

A bit further on, lots of tracks going up and down to Seminole, then south around Miami (Waypoint) and onto Comanche.

And the tracks are quite clear coming down Haskin Ridge (the darker bit is the 'Steep Step', remember that? )




Indeed.

Nice one Emily I was just about to start looking at the route after getting the huge jp2, much more manageable now.

I can see tracks at Larrys Lookout!

The Earth's *sidereal* day is 23h 56m 4s which is 23.93 hours. So rounding to 23.9 is fair enough.

see for example: http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/SiderealDay.html

James

Here is poor Prat - doesn't look like one.

Yes, I think it was in the Q'n'A at the end (one of the first questions I think) - someone asked about the prospects for life.

Cheers Nico. Fixed.

Welcome, and thanks for chiming in JunqueMan.

Here's one for you - terrain doesn't get a lot more featureless than this, just a few tiny, metre sized craters.

Thanks Nico.

It's just about all down now (a couple of data dropouts, but not too noticeable)




Polar


Enjoy.

James

I'm sure it does, but I don't think we know it yet. A sequence name on the tracking site will probably tell us in the next day or so (unless and insider wants to chip in )

James

Yup. Great view across Bottomless Bay to Cape B1.



James

For Ustrax.

Enigmatic features on the Enigmatic Ice Mound...




btw, Did I mention anyone is free to add there own pics here? I'd love to see what the rest of you are spotting.

Driving again on sol 1037!

I wasn't going to post this as I was hoping for more of the Cape Verde pan tosol, but that hasn't happened. So here is the latest.



James

According to the tracking site that image is pointing -18 degrees from north (342 bearing). So north is about 1/10 of the image width from the right edge, and Endurance should be about 1/5 of the image width from the right edge. Right on the edge of what I think is obscured by the "hell of a view". So maybe just maybe.

James

Here is a tiny bit of that HUGE Eberswalde image.

Have you noticed that on the download page that that 1.4Gb image has been split into two?

I'm just trying them now...

James

EDIT: Both half's seem to work for me in ExpressView.

I've changed my mind - separate discussion thread would be a pain - threads merged.

Not far from the first image you get to the big feature of the image, a steep scarp up onto the North polar ice cap. I see that a nice dry stone wall has been build around the bottom.