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Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point'
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post Apr 8 2011, 08:02 AM
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This is after yesterday's (sol 2560) drive; back on top of an outcrop patch.
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And according to rover driver Scott Maxwell's tweet, another 130m move should be executed today.
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post Apr 8 2011, 09:23 AM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 7 2011, 09:43 PM) *
Interesting! I forgot about that. Looks like my feature shows up better on that - the last one of the set.

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Might be heading towards Distant Vistas here (please feel free to move), but good eyes Phil!

There does seem to be a subdued and dark crater on those slopes. Getting a rough view alignment between my HiRISE DEM and your stretched pan shows a pretty good match, and where this dark thing is.

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And looking a bit closer from another angle it is still there.

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But there's a bit of driving to do before we get here...
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post Apr 8 2011, 06:16 PM
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We traveled 145 meters on sol 2560? Impressive (if accurate)!
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post Apr 8 2011, 07:08 PM
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Back on the light, crumbly stuff...

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...and a 3D panorama... hills on horizon... and the swathe of lighter rock looks very hummocky to me...

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post Apr 9 2011, 12:15 AM
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With sol 2560's drive, that's almost exactly a full kilometer of driving in the two weeks since she left Santa Maria -- to put that in perspective, there are roughly only 5km left to the base of Cape York (as the crow flies). So as long as our rover driver friends can keep up this pace and steer those wheels straight with no stops for sightseeing, we're going to be there sooner than any of us might have imagined.


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post Apr 9 2011, 11:42 AM
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The Pancam R2 view on Sol 2561.

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post Apr 9 2011, 02:02 PM
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We're coming up out of the shallow depression that contained Santa Maria, so the view is opening up again in front of us. Nice!

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post Apr 9 2011, 03:41 PM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Apr 9 2011, 12:15 AM) *
...a full kilometer of driving in the two weeks ... 5km left to the base of Cape York

The most over the top estimate of how far Oppy could drive in how long was tweeted by Scott Maxwell. He was trying to calculate how long it would take Oppy to drive to Spirit's current location to clean Spirit's solar panels: smile.gif
Mars radius = 3400km, circumference = 21k km. To go ~half that (~10k km) @ 1km/8 days = 80k days = 219 yrs!
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post Apr 9 2011, 07:30 PM
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You've got 150 years to get it done, Scotty.

Aye, captain. laugh.gif
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 9 2011, 04:02 PM) *
We're coming up out of the shallow depression that contained Santa Maria, so the view is opening up again in front of us. Nice!

If they keep the current heading, we will reach a 25m crater in 850m or so.
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post Apr 9 2011, 09:58 PM
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Very nice view of the nearest hills...

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post Apr 10 2011, 03:16 AM
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Amazing Pace !


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post Apr 10 2011, 03:42 AM
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QUOTE (eoincampbell @ Apr 9 2011, 11:16 PM) *
Amazing Pace !

Amazing Place! rolleyes.gif
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Vrroooooooooooooom, straight down the run line. Look at her go!


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830m ahead is a "double crater" that looks like an interesting place to stop and hang out for a few sols' rest...

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Here's how big they are compared to Santa Maria...

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(taken from: http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2011/...ark-stuff-again )


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