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Cape St Mary, aka the beacon

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mhoward View Member Profile	Oct 15 2006, 03:46 PM Post #31
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98	Here's your image at home, Dilo...

alan View Member Profile	Oct 15 2006, 04:43 PM Post #32
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110	Since posts about Cape St. Mary were getting scattered between two threads it appeared to be time for a new thread.

dilo View Member Profile	Oct 15 2006, 07:37 PM Post #33
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	QUOTE (mhoward @ Oct 15 2006, 03:46 PM) Here's your image at home, Dilo... -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -

kungpostyle View Member Profile	Oct 16 2006, 01:34 AM Post #34
Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 20-January 06 Member No.: 652	New pancams, nothing more on Cape St. Mary yet. It's hard to believe they are sitting there and not imaging it, I hope more come down today. http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportu...cam/2006-10-15/ -------------------- www.myspace.com/blueeach

Aldebaran View Member Profile	Oct 16 2006, 01:44 AM Post #35
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 77 Joined: 27-June 04 From: Queensland Australia Member No.: 90	QUOTE (kungpostyle @ Oct 16 2006, 01:34 AM) New pancams, nothing more on Cape St. Mary yet. It's hard to believe they are sitting there and not imaging it, I hope more come down today. http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportu...cam/2006-10-15/ It must be getting more and more difficult to download anything this close to conjunction.

MarkL View Member Profile	Oct 16 2006, 01:54 AM Post #36
Member Group: Members Posts: 240 Joined: 18-July 06 Member No.: 981	QUOTE (dilo @ Oct 14 2006, 12:20 AM) Is worth to make a enhanced/sharpened version: Clearly, stratified rocks are progressively sliding down... Yes it's well worth it. Great detail. What caught my eye was the nearly polished surface of the rock in the lowest part of the frame. I would guess this was a fracture surface since it seems close to planar, although it looks faintly like there are diagonally oriented strata within it. The vertical streaks running down it are also interesting and perhaps may be from falling dust or sand. Would be nice to get a closer look of that. We are also seeing more of the sheer cliff behind St Mary which will yield a nice view of the thin white line.

jamescanvin

Nov 1 2006, 02:44 AM

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Looks like we're back to work guys.

Take a look at the anaglyph of the sol 976 (Cape Verde panorama) pancams of St Mary.

I can't wait for the whole pan.

James

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Gray View Member Profile	Nov 1 2006, 02:56 AM Post #38
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dilo View Member Profile	Nov 1 2006, 07:53 AM Post #39
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fredk

Nov 1 2006, 04:19 PM

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A beautiful jumbled mess on the cliffs of St Mary (beacon), from sol 974:

(Heavily stretched to bring out detail in the shadows.) We're seeing the sols with one pointing each starting to come in.

PS - let's keep St Mary to this thread!

WindyT

Nov 1 2006, 05:40 PM

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Thanks, Dilo! There's something in that shot that drew my eye. Lower right of the pic you enhanced.

Not enough info as yet, but is this going to be stratigraphic or possible ground water alteration?
From this point, it looks like the thickness varies. My initial vote for this would go to stratigraphic.
Interesting at any rate.

Nirgal

Nov 1 2006, 06:02 PM

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good to see Oppy back at work again

here is a colorized version of dilo's sharpened image above:

nprev View Member Profile	Nov 1 2006, 06:31 PM Post #43
Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602	Hmm...lots of scattered rocks (ejecta?) out beyond the crater's edge in this shot. If descent into the interior of Vicky is deemed too dangerous, maybe Oppy should check some of these out once the stratigraphic units have been identified like they were back at Endurance... http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...POP2402R2M1.JPG -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.