Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point' |
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Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point' |
 Aug 8 2011, 06:11 AM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Aug 7 2011, 10:58 PM)  The mystery men have emerged again to help give us a sense of scale at this milestone in our journey. ... First conclusion: the step up to CY is really tiny! Second conclusion: Those Please thank the mystery men for appearing at just the right times. They'd be pretty hard to spot on the far side of Endeavour! Odyssey is in the same size range as Beagle crater, but Odyssey's free-standing boulders are much bigger (http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=6741). Possible explanations include Odyssey being fresher than Beagle, Cape York blunts wind erosion, and/or the boulders are just tougher. |
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Aug 8 2011, 07:21 AM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Aug 8 2011, 06:58 AM) Second conclusion: Those Did Oppy or even Spirit found such boulders (> 1,50 meters)? I don't think so we have seen such big thing yet in the last 8 years. -------------------- Need more input ...
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Aug 8 2011, 07:28 AM
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Drive direction Pancams taken after sol2678 drive are down.
QUOTE 02679 p2384.28 8 0 0 8 2 18 pancam_drive_direction_4x1_L2R2
BTW is there any estimation on hight of those hills? -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Aug 8 2011, 07:31 AM
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Pancam panorama of Sol 2769
We see Cape York and Cape Trib in one pancam panorama, now  .
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Aug 8 2011, 07:32 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2835 Joined: 22-April 05 From: Ridderkerk, Netherlands Member No.: 353 |
Here is the Pancam L2 Panoramic view on Sol 2679
in colour. Jan van Driel
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Aug 8 2011, 07:42 AM
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QUOTE (Toma B @ Aug 7 2011, 11:28 PM) BTW is there any estimation on hight of those hills? The highest points on Endeavour's rim are roughly 500 feet above Opportunity's present position and about 2000 feet above the lowest point of the crater floor. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Aug 8 2011, 07:58 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 3-January 10 Member No.: 5156 |
I made with Google Mars a cross section through the east crater rim from Cape York to Cape Byron.
It is just a rough profile. According to this Cape Trib is about 50, maybe 60 meters higher than our current position.
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Aug 8 2011, 08:01 AM
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The Sol-2679 Pancam drive direction in 3D
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Aug 8 2011, 08:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
Just for fun.
Final part of that GIF series centered roughly on Cape Tribulation. It is Philovisioned drive direction panoramas after sols 2671,2674,2676 and 2678.
It can clearly be seen that last drive (sol 2678) was shorter. Also, since the Endeavour crater "opened" there is no point in making this GIF. If we start moving towards Cape Trib. once I will try to continue this series. -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Aug 8 2011, 10:40 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
Back from vacation. Unable to download and upload pictures because the network was slow as hell.
Anyway, I gain some late. Sol 2678 color pan :  Same sol, navcam :  Sol 2679 pancam :  And amazing pics you've made there  . And in a really short time. The excitement about this leg of the travel sure is true !EDIT : this picture/desktop picture  
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Aug 8 2011, 01:34 PM
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Inspiring images Ant103, thank you.
You own my desktop .. I'm on Mars! -------------------- |
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Aug 8 2011, 02:01 PM
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QUOTE (jvandriel @ Aug 8 2011, 12:32 AM) Here is the Pancam L2 Panoramic view on Sol 2679 in colour. But it's not color, is it. You've changed a greyscale image into what can best be described as a series of colors from the Spring Titan range. Without meaning to demean any effort in processing imagery - I'm really not sure what improvement they make. |
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Aug 8 2011, 02:09 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 8 2011, 04:01 PM) But it's not color, is it. Those are not L2 images from sol2679. Its actually croped L257 color pan sol 2678. QUOTE 02678 11:01:01 p2383.28. 1 8 8 8 8 8 8 pancam_Solander_Point_2x1_L257R2 If it were colorisation of drive direction pancams from sol2679 then it would be WOW....... -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Aug 8 2011, 02:24 PM
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Member Group: Senior Member Posts: 136 Joined: 8-August 06 Member No.: 1022 |
QUOTE (Astro0 @ Aug 7 2011, 01:29 AM) Just to put Opportunity's journey across Meridiani Planum from Eagle Crater to Endeavour Crater in some kind of context to the vistas we are seeing now. Here's an image showing Opportunity's path (in yellow) and that same path (in purple) [in reverse] marked out across Endeavour Crater. [attachment=25137:OppysJourney.jpg] Opportunity and all of us have travelled far!  EDIT: Of course, the purple path doesn't take into account the topography, terrain and certainly not the last 7.5+ years of trials and triumphs. We can do that!  -Tim. |
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Aug 8 2011, 04:22 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (Toma B @ Aug 8 2011, 07:09 AM) Those are not L2 images from sol2679. Its actually croped L257 color pan sol 2678. He states himself it's just L2 he's used. It's a greyscale image. But for reasons I just don't understand, it's then very very heavily tinted orange. It's not color. And it's like looking at a picture of Titan, not Mars. I don't understand the obsession with (or benefit of) colorizing a greyscale pan like that. |
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