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Endeavour Drive - Drivability analysis
djellison
post Sep 18 2008, 11:05 AM
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post Sep 21 2008, 02:41 PM
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Yeah, it's time for back-seat driving and here's yet another potential route.
It's not covering the whole way to Endeavour but only to a small Endurance-like crater mid-way between VC and Endeavour, named here "Mini-Endurance" by SFJCody. Instead of searching for a path from VC to ME I did the opposite; from Mini-Endurance to Victoria. The terrain around Mini-Endurance looks pretty easy and becomes more wavy closer to VC. I won't be afraid because, except for the part closer to VC after the annulus, the terrain is similar or smother than the one nearby Vicking and Voyager craters.
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Here're some snapshots (HiRISE) of the waypoints and of Vicking/Voyager for comparision.
Mini-Endurance:
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M -1:
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M -3:
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M -5:
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Vicking & Voyager:
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Open this page and scroll down to the Vicking panorama to have a look to the kind of terrain we are talking about.
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