New maps at JPL, including some new placenames on Victoria's rim:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/traverse_maps.html

Phil

Got some words from SS, on the stops Paolo made reference to, the reason and how much time will Oppy take there?:

"The objective there will be the same as the objective was at our many stops along the northern rim... to image stratigraphy on the opposing cliff faces.

It's hard to predict exactly how long they'll take, but we'll try to get them wrapped up as quickly as possible."

And what about aditional stopovers? Will there be any or are we clear to hit the road after these two?

"You never know... depends on what we find. We're exploring new territory now, and whenever we see something that merits a stop, we'll stop. But we intend to hit the road as soon and as fast as we can."

"hit the road as soon and as fast as we can"
I like the sound of that...

May October show us Journeys like this daily

Hi Phil:

Now that we're under way again, and I've got a groovy new tool, I've gone back and corrected all the locations back to the lander. Based on the quality of the overhead projected Navcam pans (at a resolution of 1cm/pixel) and the resolution of the HiRISE mosaic I'm using (25cm/pixel), I can just about "guarantee" the locations are accurate to about a half meter. Next step will be registering the HiRISE mosaic to the Mars control net.

-Tim.
PS: For your perusal

That's great, Tim - both the new map and the news that the locations are fixed all the way back to the lander.

Will that full location data set end up in PDS at some point?

Phil

Well that one sure is a keeper.

Sol 1666 seems to be one more for the books: ~130m The Penultimate RHAZ is really cool.

Sweet... ...saved to the hard drive for future reference...

I looked everywhere for Paolo's teaser sol 1666 Penultimate RHAZ image. I couldn't even find the thumbnail at this time.

Edited: I just remembered that we only find thumbnails of pancams at the pancam tracking database interface.

I like the new traverse maps, in concept, but it seems we might still find better ones here. I don't understand why so much of the background HiRise resolution is obscured. Was something lost in translation to jpg?

If you refer to the third map, only the middle one is in full resolution maybe fading a bit due to colorizing or less sharpening.

Super this new concept!

(Stu leans out of car window...)

Hey, guys! Look over there!!



( EDIT: wider angle view here )

Stu, did I ever told you that you're at 3D's what Eduardo is at Oppy's route map?
Thanks so much, this view is very very inspiring and I guess we've gona miss it pretty soon or ???
But anyway, when one get a 22' screen, the original post is much better than a wider angle that take only half of the screen

Here it is, with a bit of gamma correction because the original is too dark, at least the JPEG.

The middle of a working week, a beautiful day outside,
and here I am, stranded at home, after catching a cold on a funeral...

And then Stu takes me to Mars and puts me in the rim of a crater, with this breathtaking scenario and with little cobbles around for me to kick...
This is what friends are for...
Brilliant!

Q & D polar projection of the navcam mosaic taken on sol 1664.
We can see Cape Verde almost to the N (top) and "Cape Pillar" to the ENE.