Endeavour Crater, And again shall we conquer the Remoteness |
Endeavour Crater, And again shall we conquer the Remoteness |
Sep 29 2008, 03:13 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Opportunity is getting ready to embark on her most extraordinary journey, a true rover epic.
As information regarding how to win the distance are being collected here, and the emotional last views from Victoria Crater are being discussed here, I thought about creating a new thread that will surely become an obligatory stop as the tall peaks and other features of Endeavour start to rise in the horizon. Here we will be able to discuss the location of features seen from the distance, references that will help us understanding better what we are seing and that will, fortunately, feed our spirit across the long sail across the Meridiani sandwaves. Ultreya! I give it a kick with this navcam image, comparing it with Astro0's original (beautiful...) image: I'm sure James Canvin will correct me... EDITED: I can't resist...I tried! I honestly tried, but it is stronger than me...so many features ahead and not a single name?! Seriously, at Victoria we had features named after places visited by the vessel, and now for Endeavour? Assuming that Oppy will succeed on her quest will the mission keep the same policy, of naming places after Endeavour's tour? If so, there may be some names in common with Victoria... While we are ready to leave the port once more I remembered that we could start naming, internally, (in order to have catchier landmark references... ) these features, as they loom in the horizon, after the ship's crew. We could follow the order presented here. Let me just edit the image up there... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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May 29 2009, 11:26 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 44 Joined: 25-February 08 From: Greece, Komotini Member No.: 4055 |
Can anyone give me a mineral map of the rim of Endeavour (where Oppy is going to explore)? Squires said that the rim of Endeavour crater has a very different composition from what Oppy has seen so far in her mission, because the rim is made of very ancient terrain. What are we going to see there? basalts, water-related bedrock or something else?
-------------------- "It`s one small step for a man. A giant leap for all mankind!" Armstrong, Apollo 11, 1969.
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Jun 1 2009, 07:09 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 206 Joined: 15-August 07 From: Shrewsbury, Shropshire Member No.: 3233 |
Can anyone give me a mineral map of the rim of Endeavour (where Oppy is going to explore)? Squires said that the rim of Endeavour crater has a very different composition from what Oppy has seen so far in her mission, because the rim is made of very ancient terrain. What are we going to see there? basalts, water-related bedrock or something else? I thought that the rim of Endeavour consisted of sulphate rich sandstones with a similar appearance to those found so far. They may have been excavated from much lower in the 1 km thick stack of sulphate rich sandstones but would look very similar to an untrained observer to those found so far. I think that to reach the really interesting clays beneath these deposits the floor of Endeavour crater would have to be 500 metres deeper than it is. I believe that the closest outcrop of these interesting clays is the MSL South Meridiani landing site which is 75 km south of Opportunity's current position and the MSL Miyamoto landing site which is 150 km South West of Opportunity's current position: http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/...son_6_23_08.pdf http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/...om_Miyamoto.pdf I am not suggesting that Opportunity could drive for a further 75 km. However, these two papers make interesting reading because they place Opportunity in its regional context. Also Opportunity is currently heading directly for the South Meridiani landing site and so if a Rover Driver was to fall asleep at the wheel then Opportunity might end up at the South Meridiani landing site by accident |
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