Marathon Valley, Sol 4078-4481 (July 15, 2015 - September 1, 2016) |
Marathon Valley, Sol 4078-4481 (July 15, 2015 - September 1, 2016) |
Jul 15 2015, 01:54 PM
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It looks like we had a pretty good drive on 4078 roughly to the east (or NE) and now have a better view down into Marathon Valley:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...0M1.JPG?sol4078 (Yes, we are still paying attention, Oppy!) |
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Jul 15 2015, 03:02 PM
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At first glance the sand in Marathon Valley looks treacherous.
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Jul 15 2015, 05:18 PM
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It looks like we had a pretty good drive on 4078 roughly to the east (or NE) and now have a better view down into Marathon Valley: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...0M1.JPG?sol4078 (Yes, we are still paying attention, Oppy!) There is a black rock in the left foreground that looks just like an oil glob on a sandy beach (ie Santa Barbara, California). No problem if it is oil, NASA recently demonstrated the ability to identify oil globs by plane or satellite spectral imaging :-). -------------------- |
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Jul 16 2015, 02:42 AM
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Jul 16 2015, 04:15 AM
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My first guess would be a stony meteorite with a nice thick fusion crust. Odd looking thing.
Could be quite fresh if that's what it is. -------------------- 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.
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Jul 16 2015, 11:22 AM
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Jul 16 2015, 03:44 PM
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One more wonderful panorama Jan. It remember me when we came from volcanoes in Chile and you come down to the Atacama Plateau. Very peaceful and quiet.
And by the way, you put Sol "1048" in the panorama. Did we come back in time? |
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Jul 16 2015, 04:59 PM
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Lovely view openning up after the 4079 drive to the east:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...0M1.JPG?sol4079 I think we're seeing Argos along the right edge of that frame, and the large light-toned ridge above centre is the feature to the lower left of the "Marathon Valley" label in Phil's map. |
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Jul 17 2015, 08:58 AM
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Jul 17 2015, 09:41 AM
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Jul 17 2015, 02:27 PM
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This view needs an Ennio Morricone theme! Thanks all for the disseminating and image processing.
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Jul 18 2015, 08:24 PM
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NavCam anaglyph from Sol 4081, into the valley indeed. It's like looking across the sands into 'The Wash' in North Norfolk, only I can't tell if the tide is going out or coming in.
Here is a nice calm soundtrack to take us into this tranquill looking valley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXVhh7TKgcA (Listen to the soundtrack while looking at the view) |
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Jul 18 2015, 08:44 PM
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Jul 19 2015, 03:53 AM
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Jul 19 2015, 09:36 PM
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Jul 19 2015, 10:04 PM
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Jul 20 2015, 01:45 PM
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Jul 20 2015, 08:30 PM
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Here's to hoping the team considers the scientific value of nudging a candidate boulder on its way down the slope!
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Jul 20 2015, 08:48 PM
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Jul 20 2015, 08:51 PM
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It looks like a windy place. We will probably have some solar panel cleaning soon...
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Jul 20 2015, 09:12 PM
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If they decide to try atomoids' suggestion (#18) it won't be the solar panels that need cleaning, it will be the seating panels back here on Earth!
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Jul 20 2015, 10:56 PM
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Cruzeiro do Sul you are right. I missed that completely. Here is the correct one, especially for you. Jan van Driel Thanks Jan and sorry for my very poor English, but it's not my first language...by far, but i have to say that your work (and those of others members of this forum) with these Mars images amaze me and i am so grateful for that. |
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Jul 21 2015, 05:39 AM
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Jul 22 2015, 02:11 PM
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Jul 23 2015, 09:42 PM
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Jul 24 2015, 03:48 AM
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Jul 24 2015, 09:46 AM
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Jul 24 2015, 09:51 AM
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Jul 25 2015, 12:46 PM
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Jul 25 2015, 08:28 PM
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Jul 26 2015, 11:52 AM
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Wow. That is stunning.
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Jul 28 2015, 06:37 PM
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Jul 28 2015, 08:26 PM
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Jul 30 2015, 02:41 AM
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Jul 30 2015, 08:21 PM
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Jul 30 2015, 08:54 PM
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Aug 4 2015, 02:41 AM
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Tentative plan for the explortion of Marathon Valley, from the latest PS update:
QUOTE From Private Reubin Field, Opportunity will loop around Marathon Valley on her walkabout. "We have about five stops identified along the north rim, before we circle around to the southern part of Marathon Valley where we see north-facing slopes that will improve our power by the time winter comes," said Golombek.
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Aug 4 2015, 05:18 PM
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They should call that view of the rocks on the slope "Rush Hour at Marathon Valley" - nothing is moving but you sure get a sense of movement.
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Aug 5 2015, 06:17 PM
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Aug 8 2015, 12:38 PM
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Aug 8 2015, 02:11 PM
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Very filmic this spot. Someone should shoot a western here.
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Aug 8 2015, 03:16 PM
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Very filmic this spot. Someone should shoot a western here. Marathon Monument + Marathon Valley = Monument Valley. So, you're mathematicaly correct -------------------- |
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Aug 11 2015, 11:41 AM
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Aug 11 2015, 08:13 PM
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Aug 11 2015, 08:35 PM
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Aug 11 2015, 10:11 PM
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Oops - I thought the previous one was an anaglyph because it has coloured fringes on the skyline. Anyway both are much appreciated.
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Aug 12 2015, 06:43 PM
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Now that's exactly what I meant by somebody else making a better job of it!!
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Aug 16 2015, 07:07 PM
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Aug 16 2015, 07:09 PM
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Aug 16 2015, 09:29 PM
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Very nice! Can anyone shed light on whether these are depositional layers, parallel erosion surfaces or something else?
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Aug 19 2015, 07:31 AM
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Mosaic sol 1408
and HazCam in color, left and right, sol 4107 (using the variations of light as filters) -------------------- |
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Aug 19 2015, 07:36 PM
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Aug 19 2015, 11:42 PM
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Aug 24 2015, 08:51 PM
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Aug 27 2015, 04:13 PM
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It looks like we may be heading into those boulders next, according to Crumpler's blog.
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Aug 27 2015, 07:18 PM
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..Crumpler curiously calls them "dark float rocks", or perhaps that's just a parcel of geologic nomenclature.. i'm inferring they haven't yet definitively spotted smectite from pancam data and are relying on low res orbital data and best hunches to pick the prospective targets to get a profile.. here's Larry's rendering in native resolution:
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Aug 27 2015, 07:42 PM
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"Float" is a term for rocks that have broken from their source rock, so they're no longer in place; they lack context (except that they probably originated upslope). Geologists prefer to analyze bedrock rather than float when they can, but the rovers are often forced to look at float rocks rather than outcrop higher up because of terrain trafficability issues. What they do try to do is find float that hasn't traveled far, where you can see the scar that it left behind on the outcrop so you be reasonably sure you know its initial position and orientation.
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Aug 27 2015, 09:43 PM
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I was surprised to see that the area of smectite detection by CRISM shown in Crumpler's blog encompasses the floor of the valley almost to the exclusion of the bordering layers of bedrock. But maybe the resolution is such that a distinction cannot be made and the outline around the valley floor is misleading if taken as a hard fact.
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Aug 27 2015, 09:53 PM
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Larry Crumpler's field reports are always very informative but this one excels in the amount of information in the illustrations. We even have the angles of dip in the foliations within the rocks in view. Foliation, if I'm not msitaken, is a word for layers in rocks where it seems unlikely that they're sedimentary layers.
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Sep 9 2015, 12:53 AM
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Opportunity is still alive and exploring Marathon Valley. Seems like UMSF has sort of ignored her for the past two weeks.
The monthly report by A.J.S. Rayl came out 9/3 Link -------------------- |
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Sep 10 2015, 07:59 PM
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Sep 10 2015, 10:05 PM
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Just been catching up on what Oppy was up to while I was on holiday. Here is the view of the Northwest wall from a week or two back.
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Sep 14 2015, 03:12 PM
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Sep 16 2015, 02:33 PM
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Sep 19 2015, 11:44 PM
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A great look across Endeavour Crater which just about overlaps with the mosaic of Marathon Valley floor from a couple of sols back.
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Sep 21 2015, 02:13 PM
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Oct 2 2015, 05:15 PM
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This is part of the valley floor mosaic I'm working on. Control is from HiRISE, details from reprojected panoramas. You get a sense of the complicated patterns in the bedrock here. This covers all the recent activities over sols 4081-4152.
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This is a circular view - a bit distorted by the slope and my efforts to overcome that - of Jan's pan from sols 4147-4149. The pattern of outcrops shows up quite well.
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 PDF: 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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MOD NOTE: 10 posts directly or indirectly related to politics--including mine--removed in accordance with rule 1.2.
We're just not gonna do this. -------------------- 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.
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Oct 23 2015, 02:03 PM
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That's a shame, those ten posts were filling in a three day image gap !
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Fantastic work James! Awe-inspiring....
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Opportunity moved on sol 4200. Notice the shadow of the rim on the crater floor on this image.
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Yes! I don't remember seeing a shadow before. Maybe there have been images which I just overlooked.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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There was sol 2847 with some lovely views such as this one, which shows an "opposition surge" at the anti-solar point:
http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/1/p/2...43P2445L2M1.JPG There were some lovely colour mosaics made, see the old thread starting around here. I agree the new 4200 navcams are stunning. And I suspect we can see the opposition surge again in this frame: http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/1/n/4...OZP1685R0M1.JPG though someone should check the azimuths. |
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Nov 18 2015, 10:36 PM
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i really liked the ones in shadow from sol4200 but sol4201 are even better. ICE chokes horribly on the righthand R image for some reason, so here's anaglyph of the other two pairs
"opposition surge", so thats what its called, thanks.. i've noticed this interesting effect quite a bit carpooling when one can actually get a chance to stare at at landscapes on low-angle sunny mornings, its especially apparent in iceplant type vegetation, i thought the effect aside from shadow hiding was just a prismatic reflection in plant epidermal cells but perhaps thats implicit as an aspect of the wiki's very brief coherent backscatter explanation. |
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Nov 19 2015, 12:54 PM
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Speaking of shadows, note the one on the left here.
http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/im...ZP1211L0M1.html -------------------- |
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