Solander Point, Sol 3387 - 3511 (August 4, 2013 - December 12, 2013) |
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Solander Point, Sol 3387 - 3511 (August 4, 2013 - December 12, 2013) |
 Nov 6 2013, 12:08 AM
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Solar System Cartographer  Group: Members Posts: 10188 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227  |
Sol 3478: up and over a break in slope by the look of it.
Phil http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/im...WP1301R0M1.html -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Nov 6 2013, 12:24 AM
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It looks like a backup and drive-around to me. I guess they didn't want to tangle with the drift? (I'm a little surprised.) However, check out the Pancam L257R2 on Sol 3477, labelled 'bright material'. I'd say it matches the description in the November Planetary.org update of where she's headed.
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Nov 6 2013, 12:30 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10188 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Perhaps more for good tilt than fear of drifts!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Nov 6 2013, 05:00 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 146 Joined: 31-October 08 Member No.: 4473 |
It seems to me that there often seems to be a small area of dunes atop hills or crater edges, like at Victoria and the Columbia Hills and now here on the Endeavor rim. The rige of slope must somehow create a local lee vortex that accumualtes a small dune line there...
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Nov 6 2013, 10:56 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2837 Joined: 22-April 05 From: Ridderkerk, Netherlands Member No.: 353 |
The Pan cam L7 view on Sol 3478.
Jan van Driel
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Nov 6 2013, 11:16 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2837 Joined: 22-April 05 From: Ridderkerk, Netherlands Member No.: 353 |
and the Nav cam L0 panoramic view on Sol 3478.
Jan van Driel
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Nov 8 2013, 03:24 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4252 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
It looks like the dogleg maneuver was to avoid the dusty ripples. I'm guessing that if the ground had been flat, it wouldn't have been a problem to drive through, but on a slope like this they wanted to avoid it.
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Nov 8 2013, 04:10 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 28-August 07 From: San Francisco Member No.: 3511 |
Yes, and that 'favorable' energy mini-boost...
-------------------- 'She drove until the wheels fell off...'
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Nov 8 2013, 09:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2837 Joined: 22-April 05 From: Ridderkerk, Netherlands Member No.: 353 |
The panoramic views on Sol 3480.
Jan van Driel Navcam
Pancam
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Nov 8 2013, 08:29 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
I'm in a good mood, so I decided to make a Postcard from Sol 3473
 
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Nov 8 2013, 11:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 139 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Toronto, Canada Member No.: 529 |
Ooohhh!!! That is quite nice!
Thank-you Damia. -------------------- -- Robin
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Nov 9 2013, 03:01 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4252 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Based on this new view, I'd say we're now at least as high as the highest point on Cape York. Notice how CY no longer sticks up above the horizon (though that's techically probably not the true horizon, since the top of CY is below the level of the outside plains, so I don't think we're at the plains height yet). CY is the "stain" just below the horizon on the left side of the frame.
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Nov 9 2013, 12:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2837 Joined: 22-April 05 From: Ridderkerk, Netherlands Member No.: 353 |
Sol 3478-3479 L0
Sol 3480-3481 L0
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Nov 9 2013, 12:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2837 Joined: 22-April 05 From: Ridderkerk, Netherlands Member No.: 353 |
Sol 3480 Pancam L7
added 1 image at the leftside. Jan van Driel
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Nov 9 2013, 02:22 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Am I right in thinking the dark pyramid right on top there corresponds to the 'Winter outcrops' marked on the traverse map? Or are those still beyond our current skyline?
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