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Endeavour Crater, And again shall we conquer the Remoteness
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post Jun 30 2009, 03:59 PM
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Can I give my input?
I was last week climbing in the french alps and went up to "Les Ecrins". Even if my view of "La Barre et le Dôme des Ecrins" is sideway, I found it remarkably close to Cook:
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post Jun 30 2009, 09:01 PM
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Nice picture, It is evident, the snow is already melting. On the other hand, this mountain has a very big ripple. Any moment, there would have a snow mass falling.
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post Jun 30 2009, 09:19 PM
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I don't want to continue OT but this is not only snow, this is a glaciar including 3 seracs. One of them partly broke up 3 weeks ago which obliged climbers to take a more direct path to the summit.
I'm realy wondering if we can get such a view when Oppy will get to Endeavour (if she even will get close to Cook). The actual height of the summit is around 1000 m above the place I took the picture. I'm a bit confused about the height of Cook relative to Endeavour floor.


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post Jul 20 2009, 10:48 AM
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Looks like clays ahead.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0907/19opportunity/

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post Jul 20 2009, 01:47 PM
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Well, Oppy may be a little turtle, but after roving all this time now she can see the clay goal over the hill. laugh.gif
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post Jul 20 2009, 02:15 PM
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Woohoo! smile.gif Don't want to say I told you so, but...

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&p=69014
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OK, I didn't mention clays... but I knew it wasn't more of this sandstone!
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post Jul 20 2009, 04:49 PM
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QUOTE (maxpett @ Jul 20 2009, 04:48 AM) *


Wow! I think a lot of us were hoping for something like this, but this is a pretty amazing announcement. Let's hope she can get there.
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post Jul 20 2009, 09:49 PM
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Hmm. I wonder if this will have an immediate effect on traverse planning? Clays are a pretty high-value target; she just might be doing fewer opportunistic (sorry) science stops enroute.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we've seen nothing radically different for quite some time. The cobbles seem to be the most enigmatic things, and many of them seem to be meteorites; is there any compelling reason at this point not to accelerate the effort to reach Endeavour?


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post Jul 20 2009, 10:23 PM
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QUOTE (nprev @ Jul 20 2009, 10:49 PM) *
is there any compelling reason at this point not to accelerate the effort to reach Endeavour?

Just the RF wheel currents. sad.gif

Also, how old is this crism data? It may very well be that the rover planners have been aware of the clay signatures for some time now.
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post Aug 27 2009, 09:44 PM
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QUOTE (maxpett @ Jul 20 2009, 02:48 AM) *



You know, it's been over a month and I haven't seen a single other article on this anywhere. Nothing on Space.com, spaceref.com, etc... I may have missed it but has this clay mission been confirmed?
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post Aug 28 2009, 02:54 PM
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QUOTE (Bill @ Jun 28 2009, 09:19 AM) *
I think we can barely see a new part of Endeavour in these navcams just on the left of "Cook":
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...G6P1994L0M1.JPG
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...NVP1994L0M1.JPG
Waiting for pancams.

The wait is over. I believe this is the first pancam view of those new very subtle features:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...C7P2401L6M1.JPG
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post Aug 30 2009, 01:58 PM
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The distant horizon in x5vertical exaggeration.
Sol 1987...
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post Aug 30 2009, 02:36 PM
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Very nice image! Thanks.

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post Aug 31 2009, 12:43 AM
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Wow! Even though I know it is a vertical exaggeration, I'm still salivating.

Will we actually get there? My assumption is yes. Given the slow degradation of certain parts of oppy what equipment will still work when we arrive?

I'm especially excited about the clays that were identified from orbit. How much science will be available once we find a handful?
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post Aug 31 2009, 04:32 AM
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I hear you! I'm more excited about Oppy than I have been in years. I'd love to get more info on the clays exact locations, but so far the only article I could find was the spaceflighttoday article.
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