The western route, 5th leg after stop at Absecon / Reeds Bay |
The western route, 5th leg after stop at Absecon / Reeds Bay |
Jul 11 2009, 05:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Time for a new thread.
After moving southwards for ages, the "detour" by the western path has started with a 60+ meters drive on sol 1942. There are no images yet --they should be available on the next update-- so this image was calculated solely based on the rover's mobility info. I'll update the route map later. |
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Jul 24 2009, 11:00 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10184 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
The crater namers forgot that they had already used the name Alvin. Check out the very first post in the Opportunity Route Map thread many years ago... So they had to re-name the crater.
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Jul 24 2009, 11:10 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Thanks for the info, Phil.
Time for another map update... |
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Jul 27 2009, 01:24 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
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Jul 27 2009, 04:38 PM
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Two foreign forms on a sand ribbed plain
One low entropy The other high One moves The other still One itinerant The other resident One seeks The other found The seeker approaches |
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Jul 27 2009, 04:46 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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Jul 27 2009, 08:36 PM
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At this distance and angle, my mind is turning that object into a tiny boat being tossed about in the waves.
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Jul 27 2009, 08:56 PM
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What are those Crab Fishermen from The Deadliest Catch doing here on Mars?
Are they trying to catch cobbles of crabs here? |
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Jul 27 2009, 10:56 PM
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SFJCody, your poem is clever and elegant. It calls to mind this one:
Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: `My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away". Hope I am not duplicating the work of someone else who has been inspired by the Meridiani landscape to post this poem . . . (and Stu -- haven't digested your longer poem yet -- but to whom does "The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed" refer to, ie, can you diagram that sentence?) And a related analog is, of course, the Rosetta Stone -- which is black -- and Block Island may prove to be a geological Rosetta Stone. |
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Jul 28 2009, 02:25 AM
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The latest traverse map looks puzzling. Does this mean the Oppy team have now abandoned going West and will resume a route to the South?
Or is there some other reason for the U turn? |
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Jul 28 2009, 03:13 AM
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...Or is there some other reason for the U turn? Go back to post 43 of this thread and read on from there. Yes, the reason is to go back for a look at the rock, Block Island. |
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Jul 28 2009, 10:33 AM
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Excuse the jumping in here, but... Shelley, I'd say, is using "survive" in the sense of "outlive". So, the frown shows that the sculptor did a good job of reading the passions of Ozymandias. Thanks to the dead stones they're carved on, these passions outlive both the hand that 'mocked' (imitated) them (ie the sculptor) and the heart that fed them (ie Ozymandias himself).
As glennwsmith says, it's a good poem for Mars. |
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Jul 28 2009, 10:51 AM
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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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Jul 28 2009, 10:53 AM
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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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Jul 28 2009, 02:12 PM
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This is probably a stupid question, but.....
Are meteorites on Mars actually interesting? I'm fully aware that BI may be a piece of deep ejecta, and appreciate why that would make it worth investigating, but the rovers have seen a couple well identified meteorites, and spent some considerable time going over them. What can we learn from them that is different than what we would learn from meteorites on Earth? CE |
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Jul 28 2009, 02:34 PM
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What's especially interesting is how many there seem to be. If this is typical, it suggests a rich area of future sampling opportunities during human Mars exploration missions, especially looking for very rare types. Comparing the range of types found on Mars with those found on Earth may be interesting too.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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