Beautiful!

And here the two images stitched together.





PS: Today I had my mars fix. No doubt!

The only problem is that, having moved six inches to the right, we've now got something else that demands a month of study! Ah, the curse of riches...

Bob Shaw

Too long drive. We ended up at the South side of Home Plate !
Is that Mogollon ?

4 frames with a streth-a-thon of the horizon.

Doug

this is sooo cool

I simply can't describe this feeling of sitting here in front of a computer screen and at the same time
virtually roving in near real time the bizarre landscapes of an entirely alien world, 100 millions miles away,
watching, through the roving machine's eyes, images of sceneries no one has ever seen before ...

thank you, JPL for the Rovers !
thank you, world, for the internet !

phantastic, absolutely phantastic

> Holy... cow.

...is right. It looks a as important as Homeplate and she doesn't have to be home by 11:00.

Attached is a crop from Tesheiner's recent Navcam pan of Sol 741 showing what I think the path was and might be tomorrow-Sol. "A" is where the end of drive Navcams and Pancans were taken; the path might continue straight ("B") or might go to the right ("C"). "B" is 1N194058757EFF640DP0700L0M1.jpg
and "C" is 1N194058947EFF640DP0700L0M1.jpg .

Let me get back to the images before I pass out....

--Bill

Are we seeing similar structures to those seen in Burns Cliff?

We don't know, yet. It is layered, but it looks more like the Rimrock outcrop where we did penance at recently. Has it ever been determined why "rimrock", et al, erode like it does and not like the "usual" flat paving stones?

Looking forward to tomorrow's views.

--Bill

That is great to feel that Oppy is back driving!

Wow, it looks even more interesting than I tought!

These Mogollon rim would be an alike to HP's strata

Rodolfo

Not yet by sure. Need to approach closer to see the strata.

Rodolfo

Well... let me be something like the 20th person here to say, "Finally!"

And the third or fourth person here to say, "Wait a second -- that's not Mogollon, that's Home Plate!"

-the other Doug

Na, richtig toll, Mensch, gel? I really wondered if I'd live to see the day.
From this distance there seems to be at least one area with a good basal exposure (yellow circle).


or else along the 'ramp' on the right. Man, it looks like a piece of cake to get around here. I was expecting a sandy morass.
Work it, boys! Science calls!

This image, of the rim of Erebus, showing where the uppermost layers collapsed a la the collapses around the rim of Endurance, but with an almost-level paving of evaporite rock below the rover's wheels, just reinforces my impression that Erebus must have been inundated by standing water *after* it was formed. Perhaps a multitude of times.

Can anyone here say they don't see how it's impossible that the entire crater wasn't inundated by water after it formed? How else can it be *filled* with evaporite?

-the other Doug

The material beneath the planar rimrock appears from this distance to be massive with little bedding .
There are some near vertical fractures and it will be interesting if they project up to the openings we have seen in the planar slabs. The structure appears to be a small half saucer. I don't believe it is erosional and an impact would be more circular. Bill, what could have caused the subsidence that terminates in either direction?

..perhaps this sharpened view could help.

Distance from the "piece of cake" highlighted by Shaka is 13m, outcrop height above the lower plain is close to 80cm in this point...