Post Solar Conjunction/Santorini Study Drive, The second leg in our Journey to Endeavor Crater |
Post Solar Conjunction/Santorini Study Drive, The second leg in our Journey to Endeavor Crater |
Mar 10 2009, 02:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4247 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Maybe the reason they took the funny detour is to get the two craters into a nice shot My technical-leaning mind suspects something engineering or science related. Perhaps it's some kind of test related to the raised wheel current. Perhaps they've spotted a tasty looking cobble or piece of bedrock, though I can't see anything in the images. |
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Mar 10 2009, 02:17 PM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
Note the smiley at the end. I don't think there is a chance they did it for a nice picture. Maybe if the picture is more useful like this...
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Mar 10 2009, 02:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 550 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
Some years ago I happened to find myself strolling along the Lisbon waterfront and came across this inspiring monument to exploration. Even from a distance, I realised what it represented... there are not many sculptures you can say that about. Close up, I found the detail amazing and captivating. I stayed looking at it for quite some time....
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Mar 10 2009, 02:24 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
What I find most confusing is that the Resolution mosaic was taken after the drive. It would have been much better taken before the drive when Oppy was much closer to the crater. I'm sure all will become clear in due course.
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Mar 10 2009, 04:23 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Taken before the drive, it wouldn't have had the pretty tracks in it. I wonder if it was one of those 'happy accidents' like the Aviation Week Navcam Mosaic
Doug |
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Mar 11 2009, 04:05 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4247 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
A very tasty morsel has been tossed our way in the latest official route map.
It looks like projected routes, as well as colour coding (yellow) for terrain to avoid? |
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Mar 11 2009, 06:29 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Speaking about projected/planned routes what I would love to see is the map section right below (south) this one.
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Mar 11 2009, 07:55 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Porcupine here we go!
Tesheiner, by the look of it it appears the turn East won't take too long after...the yellow line takes that direction... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Mar 11 2009, 09:41 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
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Mar 11 2009, 10:16 AM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
I assume those are projections of panoramas/images to fit the map.
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Mar 11 2009, 10:40 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Still waiting for image downlink but according to the data from the PCDT Opportunity moved back closer to Resolution; almost at the same spot it was on sol 1820.
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Mar 11 2009, 11:08 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10170 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Splat! Yes, remcook is correct.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Mar 11 2009, 11:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
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Mar 11 2009, 12:41 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I've seen them plenty of times in the past, yes.
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Mar 11 2009, 01:11 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 17-May 06 From: Houston, Texas Member No.: 776 |
One thing I have noticed about Meridiani Planum is that there is little or no regolith. All the craters we see are rimmed by thrusted-up bedrock.
Compare those with the ones we have seen at the Apollo landing sites where there is a very deep regolith and we see no bedrock. I think the regolith in Gustav Crater is comparable to the Apollo's landing sites (Maybe not as deep). So why is the bedrock so close to the surface at Meridiani? Is it because the winds have kept it clean? Is Gustav's deep because it is inside a basin and eons of sediments have been deposited there? The Moon's is deep from eons of impactors churning up the surface over and over. My thinking on Meridiani is that the base rock is easily eroded once it is exposed to the surface. It's like it dissolves into a fine powder that the wind carries away. It leaves behind the blueberry's. -------------------- |
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