Cape Verde, The first cape visited |
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Cape Verde, The first cape visited |
 Oct 5 2006, 04:49 PM
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Beacon sounds good too; I'd really like to get some distance so that the petrified liz@rd doesn't crawl up and start sunning himself on Oppy's solar panels.
Seriously, before moving on, I hope they take the extra few meters drive to the edge and get a full pan of the Beacon's southern face. If we don't get it here, it will be a long time before we get another, urm, "opportunity." |
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Oct 5 2006, 04:53 PM
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Now that's a conundrum: do we want to see the beacon or do we want to sit on the beacon? - I have the feeling we will have a lot of questions like that in the coming months. Which is not a bad situation to be in...
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Oct 5 2006, 05:03 PM
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Oct 5 2006, 05:06 PM
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Indeed It looks she stands rather close to the north side of Cabo Verde's egde, tztz
 One Rover width (wheel to wheel) between maybe, but probably more. No slip so far http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportu...POP1311R0M1.JPG
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Oct 5 2006, 05:15 PM
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And rock for IDD
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Oct 5 2006, 05:49 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Oct 5 2006, 06:55 PM
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SOL 959
Left
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Oct 5 2006, 06:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Bruxelles, Belgium Member No.: 278 |
vertical 1cm/pixel
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Oct 5 2006, 06:59 PM
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Sol 959 100-degree perspective view:
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Oct 5 2006, 07:11 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 5 2006, 07:42 PM)  Where IS everyone??? I thought there'd be images and mosaics flying in all directions tonight!  That's the BEACON over there!!! We've talked about it for all these months, and we're here!!! Maybe everyone's waiting until they release that pic of Oppy standing on the edge of VC as taken by MRO, at tomorrow's Media Briefing... (if that's what it is...? Wouldn't it be brilliant if it was an image sequence, with three frames, #1 showing one of the MER's being approached by a dust devil, looking all dirty and grungy, then #2 the rover enveloped by the dust, and #3 reappearing all shiny and new again!  )I'm here Stu! A bit drunk (national holiday...) but here... This, for me, is the boundary...Oppy is, from now on, the Earth's embassy to something unbleviable!... I'm drooling...drooling... And if my desire was in a Cape Verde egress, now...I don't how that cape will be named but that's the way! Totally the way...Sorry but this are the emotions writing... I WANT to go down there!!! 
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Oct 5 2006, 07:14 PM
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Am I imagining things or is the Beacon 'Cabo' the only one that shows uplift rather than sag? Does this suggest something fascinating about the underlying structure, or is it just that a fragment of an upper 'evaporite' unit survives atop Beacon, and is lost everywhere else?
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Oct 5 2006, 07:21 PM
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stunning...quite a parking spot!
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Oct 5 2006, 07:25 PM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ Oct 5 2006, 09:11 PM) I'm here Stu! A bit drunk (national holiday...) but here... And if my desire was in a Cape Verde egress, now...I don't how that cape will be named but that's the way! Only a bit drunk, Eh? Did I just hear you say "Cape"? Happy national holiday, Ustrax! -------------------- |
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Oct 5 2006, 07:32 PM
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A bit bit...
That would be my Valley Without Peril in between... The perfect egress! It's the Republic's Triomph...Not my kind of holiday...But...Hey...It's a free day anyway...
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Oct 5 2006, 07:33 PM
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Approximate location after tosols drive:
We're still 8 metres or so from the visible tip in that image, but we're much closer, only 3 metres or so, from the closest part of the "edge", which is more directly to our east (ie towards the "back" of Verde in that image). (This is according to AlgorimancerPG on the navcams). |
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