Just to wrap up for me today, here's a 90 degree wide view facing northeast, showing Oppy's position on sol 2763 (looking at "Homestake").

Gorgeous!

Thank you. It takes some work (about an hour in this case) to manually de-vignette and brightness-adjust everything, plus feed it to PTGui, etc.

Very nice! And here it is in circular form. Looking at it, I would make a small edit to Tesheiner's map - the last drive (the last part of it anyway) was right along the boundary, not at an angle to it.

Phil

Took mhoward's stereo pair of Homestake to make this "super gif," for what its worth. Some color was lost in the gif compression.

Here's one of the MIs of Homestake on today's batch. I guess we will be here for a little while.

Yes!! And as an added bonus, we finally get a close-up look at the rock fragments we've seen.

Let me work up a context/location from the color images that we got yesterday.
...........EDIT: I couldn't quite place the MIs on the context Pancam-- couldn't find enough reference points. Maybe later today.

I added "crisper" Pancam images to my post from yesterday:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=179756


--Bill

Here are the first few fragments of the MI pan of Homestake with a bit of tweaking . . .

EDIT: Had a bit more time -- upgraded image stitching

Spectacular!

-m

That's really good work, Dan, nice one.

Very interesting!!

There appears to be some banding along the length of the vein. Would this indicate some kind of periodic deposition as the vein grew?

There won't be clearer Pancams for a couple of days and I wasn't able to match up specific features between the MIs and Pancams, but based on a TLAR anaylsis of the FHazcam images, this may be the likely location of the current MIs and the IDD work.

This should be mineralogically interesting. An R721-yellow is typically a hydrated Iron III oxide-hydroxide, but this is a lemon-yellowish, so who knows. And note the ruby-red zones along the feature. What are they? What is the nature of the county rock surrounding the fracture fill? A gajillion questions, no?

--Bill

Fresh off the aether-- a cropped L257 showing the location of the IDD spot. It is on the left, next to the IDD arm joint.

And yesterday's (Sol-2764) quick-and-dirty MI stitch.


EDIT-- and for the cross-eyed mineralologists, an R521 (sorry, no deep-IR R7 was down yet).


--Bill

Right on the money. We're going to do some Pancam 13Fs before we leave; perhaps some background APXS or APXS-Argon measurements to subtract out the extraneous stuff that isn't Homestake itself.

Maybe the Pancam 13F from 2765 is down by now... I'm sure they plan on doing more over the weekend.

-m

EDIT:


Here's to hoping for a dust cleaning event... that deck is getting dusty.

-m

Those current P2572 Pancams are so much better. They'll keep us giddy for a while.

--Bill