Windpatterns might change over the milennia, yet we dont even have to assume that, simple temperature cycles might cause quite some eroding over the extensive timespans we're dealing with here.

beautiful colorization, dilo ! ...

love this view with the ragged cliffs in front of sand dunes

I was about making a colored version of this too, but you beat me to it
Can't probably do much better than this anyway

... sure they will also do a full filter pan of this one

Good question. There may be websites you and I don't know about. What do the 'code' pages say about today's activities. Is Oppy rolling up to the section? Is Spirit crossing the Plate?
Maybe the techs at Exploratorium are so exhausted from last week's struggle to fix things that they fell asleep under their desks. They've probably earned a day's rest. I hope they realize how much we appreciate their day-to-day efforts, despite our recent whingeing about the stoppage. Does anyone's grapevine indicate what the problem was? Hardware? Communications? Ho hum, tomorrow's another day.

P.S. Herzlichen Gluckwunschen zum Erfolg eures Olympiamannschafts in Turin!

Some more views from near Payson:

And, embarrassingly, here I am accustomed to thinking in terms of geological timespans. It's still hard to think of an outcrop sitting on the surface and eroding for many, many millions of years.

Yes, those mostly do. My most tentative correlation just comes into the left side of that pancam, so I can't say much, other than that it doesn't look "quite" the same in the more detailed pancams. I can't tell you how many times I checked today for those sol 744 pancams that are on the ground, not even the thumbnails. How long does it take for the thumbnails to be processed?

I am "allowing for some disturbance and disruption" as best I can. Anyway, I've got to stick with the interpretation from the 742 navcams until better imagery settles it one way or another. ...and now we're back in Limbo again.

Today (sol 745) is planned as driving sol.



I sent an email to the exploratorium webmaster (ronh@ exploratorium.edu) on the 24th telling about the situation and asking for news. No answer to the email but, coincidence or not, the webpage was updated that day.

Who wants to try this time?

I'm hopefull that the colour will come thru a bit later.

Doug

More outcrops in the distance? Or is that crater rim?

Bob Shaw

Doug, there is an L2,3,4,5,6,7 and Rx,x,x sequence at the JPL site for Sol-743.

Bob, those outcrops are the area around Payson, look at my route map from 25.02.06...

--Bill

Going on the orbital imagery - and the pointing - I'd say it's little bits of southern erebus, but there's lots of bits and pieces like it all around.

Doug

Bill and Doug:

Are you both talking about the same things, but with different names, or not? If you see what I mean.

Some nicely aligned outcrops would be a Good Thing, I think...

Bob Shaw

There's a full filter sequence for one frame, but there was an L257 for all the frames in that little mosaic just about, that's the data I'm refering to. it's down at the tracking site in thumbnail form, nothing more yet.

Doug

Do we know which feature was called 'Zane Grey'?

Phil

The full L23567 sequence is for one frame so far, but that will give us geo-geeks a good start on figuring out the lithologies here.

Bob, it _is_ confusing. The horrid 25 Feb route image was done on another 'puter using Winders Paintbrush and is linked to below. Oppy is at the area marked "Sol 742" and is moving, AFAIK, southward. The outcrops we are looking at now are to the map's left. "Payson", proper, as I understand it, is that large promontory of bedrock South of the word "Payson" on the map. We are currently at some dinky outcrops before the major outcrop sequence at Mogollon-Payson. The major outcrops are on the other side of that dark-toned sand dune we've seen on approach. This whole bedrock exposure is the Mogollon Rim with Payson being a locality within the Mogollon Rim, and I'd be inclined to call this outcrop and the next outcrop on the horizon "Mogollon" and call that promontory area "Payson". But the tendency here is to call this Payson, so I'll go along. I have no idea what Cornell/JPL is calling this current location.

"Burb's of Payson"?

ADDED: Phil, I don't know this as fact, but I have the impression that "Zane Grey" is one of the bedrock exposures between Purgatory II and this stop. You can see them on the righthand color image in my Post #80.

--Bill



S742 Route Map