Opportunity Leaves Olympia, Goodbye Purgatory 2 |
Opportunity Leaves Olympia, Goodbye Purgatory 2 |
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Feb 26 2006, 11:12 PM
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QUOTE Bill Harris said: What puzzles me is how this bluff is eroding. It lays on the downwind side of the scarp: prevailing wind is from the NW. 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. |
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Feb 26 2006, 11:42 PM
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I was referring to features at the centrer of last PanCam views.. [attachment=4254:attachment] While waiting for true color sequences, I made this pseudo color view... it is a kind of divertissment, I cannot reach the level of great Nirgal works but I made many other improvements/changes over the original R1 version (do you guess which ones?)... 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 |
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Feb 26 2006, 11:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
I had just visited at qt.exploratorium.edu and it has stopped again the captation of pictures from Opportunity. Its last image update was February 24. Its does not happens uniquely to Opportunity but also to Spirit. So, now, the only updated source from MER is only of the Mars Rovers JPL web site. Isn't it? Rodolfo 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! -------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Feb 27 2006, 01:19 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
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Feb 27 2006, 02:56 AM
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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. 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. -------------------- |
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Feb 27 2006, 05:37 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
The layers look fairly horizontal to me, that is allowing for some disturbance and disruption 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. -------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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Feb 27 2006, 10:00 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
What do the 'code' pages say about today's activities. Is Oppy rolling up to the section? Is Spirit crossing the Plate? Today (sol 745) is planned as driving sol. QUOTE 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. 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? |
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Feb 27 2006, 11:53 AM
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Feb 27 2006, 12:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
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 -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Feb 27 2006, 12:15 PM
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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 -------------------- |
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Feb 27 2006, 12:16 PM
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Feb 27 2006, 12:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
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 -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Feb 27 2006, 12:25 PM
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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.
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Feb 27 2006, 01:56 PM
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Do we know which feature was called 'Zane Grey'?
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Feb 27 2006, 01:56 PM
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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 -------------------- |
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