To the Cape! (part 2), For real this time! Options

[Tesheiner]

This is a navcam mosaic taken after driving during sol 1559.


Mmm, remember the name of this thread?
To the Cape! Yeah!

[fredk]

It's great to see us thoroughly out of the Quackmire! We now have a good view of potential approaches to Verde. Here's a crop from Tesheiner's mosaic. I've sketched two approaches that appear to stay pretty well on solid rocky surfaces. The black gets us close to the cliff, but not very deep - we've studied those layers already. The white route gets us deeper but not very close to the cliff. Of course they could continue past the end of the white arrow (that's where the original target lies), at the risk of getting bogged down again in loose soil...