And… hmmm… Yet, another Tisdale

Phew !
When I posted my rambling thanks I was on page 6, and hadn't quite grasped what 12 more pages could hold.
Ye gods and little fishes - I am the 5000.
Thank you all, I will bathe my red eyes, got to bed and dream of eating pineapples on an aircraft carrier.
Mike

Has there been a reference to Tisdale_1 ?
Could the team have spotted a post-split sibling ?

It just disappeared during the trek to Victoria. One day it was there and the next the site name was up for grabs. It was an absolutely outstanding explanation and analysis of the early MER findings and now a reminder of the ephemeral nature of internet based information. I wish I had copied it page by page.

This MUST be the most fascinating rock Oppy's come across in a long, long time...

Some portions may be recoverable here

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&id=25257

It looks like there might be a counterpart to Tinsdale laying on the ground further north.

Tisdale foredeck just came down.

I think this is the view left of Tisdale now, contrast cranked up to boost 3D effect (more uniformly a dull gray, otherwise). There's a stepped, lighter-toned rock back there, partly submerged, with the two big darker-toned rocks on top of it. Very interesting.

This is Tisdale 1.

My guess, Tisdale is the rock, 1 and 2 are target spots on it.

Phil

(EDIT: Apparently I was McStooken)

Tisdale 1 and 2 were named for the first time on these imaging sequences from sol 2686.

02686::p2584::27::4::0::0::4::2::10::pancam_tisdale_1_L257R2


02686::p2585::27::4::0::0::4::2::10::pancam_tisdale_2_L257R2


On a different matter, I saw this reference to the "faulted drives" on the weekly report:

Glad to know it was due to somethink so benign instead of a HW related issue.

'Lack of visual features', eh? What a shame they didn't have a whopping big flat-topped rocky slab...thing...right in front of them...

We didn't aim the cameras that way during that particular drive.

It's also that the turns were too big and there was a lack of features to detect a change from in the last image that the rover took.

After tonight, pending a successful drive -- and I'm telling you, the RPs yesterday really pulled some heroics to sequence it -- we'll have close-ups of the left side of Tisdale 2. I smell a week of IDD! Cool part is, I'm on shift through Wednesday. Sweet.

-m

Coool.

Something a little different: a 100(-ish) degree wide perspective view of the Navcam images from sol 2690. One thing that's more apparent to me in the anaglyph version is, behind Tisdale 2 there's what looks like perhaps a similar rock so eroded that all that's left is a light-colored pile. Tisdale 1.5? Anyway I recommend the anaglyph version.



And since it looks like it's going to be a while (maybe forever?) until the last data dropouts are fixed in the sol 2685-2688 Navcam panorama, here's a sort-of-final version with some holes.