Sol 22 and after, Digging in Wonderland |
Sol 22 and after, Digging in Wonderland |
Jun 17 2008, 03:07 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10229 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Here's a Sol 22 image of the new trenching area at the extreme right edge of the work area. I brightened the shadow to show the whole trench.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jun 23 2008, 05:45 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4256 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
The main ice exposure at the far end of Dodo/Goldilocks is continuing to darken:
http://www.met.tamu.edu/mars/i/SS028EFF898...5_132F0L1M1.jpg It's easy to predict that the entire exposure will be dark in not too many sols. I'm intrigued by the fact that the darkened ice surface is actually darker than the surrounding soil, as I've mentioned before. I wonder how Holy Cow is doing. This rapid darkening helps illustrate why we see no naturally exposed ice patches around (indeed, perhaps we should be looking for unusually dark, rather than light, areas!). Perhaps it also explains why we saw nothing bright in the heatshield crater (although that may have involved dark debris from the heatshield itself). |
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