Anything to the north is covered with large dunes until you get back up past Viking and Voyager craters.

As far as I have heard that the next Opportunity mission would be in looking for any cobblers on the way? Indeed, the during search way would be toward to Erebus crater?

Remember the Steve Squires hint, and Ustrax challenge:

There are some very subdued craters in the area. I wonder if it's one of those.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/070628/pia09691.html

Well my original point still stands, anything in those directions would involve the old sand dune zig-zag.

But it brings up another point. What the heck is there to investigate in those subdued craters? At least Erebus had some outcrops and rock exposures to examine. But I can't see the point of going to what amounts to a very large Viking Vostok Crater. (But I'm sure they have some goals in mind that we will soon be made aware of.)

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Maybe someone spotted something interesting in an MRO image.

Oppy's going to run away without taking a closer look at the other 2/3 of Victoria's rim?

And Oppy! Please do not forget to capture a "complete" image row of the rising shadows in Victoria before you leave!

That's what I find surprising too.

I think they're going to go south and look at more rim.

But exploring the entire rim in the same detail we have done so far would be a 2 year long process, and at some point it just becomes stamp-collecting rather than science.

Yes, I think we'll gain another perspective of Duck bay (at least) which could help to understand the whole story

I love when one write both the question and the answer

The hope must be that they expose different layers in the stratigraphic column.

But look out beyond the big crater WNW of Victoria - there are other features beyond it (plus various cobbles en route, no doubt). A cluster of small fresh impact craters (probably secondaries, and so maybe accompanied by exotic ejecta), and eventually a spectacular crater that looks more promising than Victoria as a possible long term goal. So there's a longer term goal, and intermediate steps with a possibility of new exposures. There's no way I'd want to go back to Erebus.

Phil

Is anyone else having trouble getting the latest Exploatorium update to load onto Midnight Mars Browser?

yes.

I think the team is looking for these...cobbles... (sol 658?)