3D view of "Ridout"...

It may be my imagination, but I think I'm seeing lineations (layering?) in two different orientations in Ridout, a slanty one on the left side and more horizontal one on the right side.

EDIT: Upon further consideration, it appears that what I'm seeing is a big foreground rock and a similar sized rock behind it (perhaps the same rock broken into two parts). In this case, the lineations are probably consistent.

Shamelessly stealing Stu's image to bring out detail in the shadows.

The blueberry lag deposit seems to have disappeared now that we are on Cape York proper.

I was thinking the same thing.

Here is an L2,5,7 false colour image of the ground near Oppy on Sol 2686 (I pushed the levels a bit to make the different rock types stand out more).
Not many blueberrys to be seen.

Colour mosaic of surface... waaay too big to post here...

http://twitpic.com/66ls51

Just open up the full size version and marvel at the different shapes, sizes and colours of rocks...

It looks to me from this distance that Ridout's a breccia (i.e., a glued-together agglomeration of angular chunks of older rocks). Maybe not surprising, given that it's part of the rim of a 25-km impact crater...

John

The blue stones look very familiar, the pink/rose (Stu image) purple (J B image) stones look like something new... Anyone remember seeing rose-colored stones before? Could these be someting interesting????

[edit] Maybe I just have on rose colored glasses looking for new types of rocks.

Beautiful rocks out there:





A welcoming place to sit, if there was fresh air to breath.

Excellent work, Ugordan. Come on now Stu, I've been trying to lead Gordan into working on the old images I like (and used to process), not other new images

one should avoid using too much superlatives, but that second 'rock-garden', contrasting lovely with the wide open plains and mountain against the distant backgrund is definitely among the most scenic mars anaglyphs yet

I still can't quite believe we're here after that epic journey! Fantastic views, well worth the wait.
Thanks to all for the continuing anaglyphery and vista-stitching wizardry.

Ted, I'll leave the joys (and smells!) of interplanetary dumpsters to you for the time being.

Sol 2685
Navcam flicker gif of the flat-topped rock,
don't know if it has a name yet.

Wow! I just looked at the august 15th pancams and my head is spinning. My inner python is comming out!

Does that flat top rock have a thin crust of light material on top? Does the rock point back to the rock garden and a light colored path in it? Are the light colored shards in the soil pieces of the same stuff?

I need to see this stuff.

Monty.