Distant vistas, Endeavour, Iazu, and beyond |
Distant vistas, Endeavour, Iazu, and beyond |
Jan 27 2010, 09:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4251 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
To answer Ustrax's querries from the other thread, I think we can now see more of the
The leftmost (Endeavour north rim) and middle (far rim) features look similar. But it looks like we can see more stuff on the right, which is Endeavour south rim and Iazu. The view we had a few sols ago (2133) of Iazu was still partly obscured by dunes, so it makes sense that we can see more now. I can't see Bopolu in the navcams, though it could be there and buried in the jpeg noise... |
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Feb 28 2010, 09:21 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Explorer, your post has prompted me to do some digging back in relation to possible future hills and vistas. I've remarked on most of this previously but here I've collected some relevant images from earlier posts.
First the contour map from tim53, post 113 above: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&id=20806 This shows the downslope increasing quite sharply near the end point of the yellow line. The view forward should become increasingly spectacular over the last km. or so of that route. It also shows that the nearest group of hills to the south rise from a base that is already well down the slope into Endeavour Crater. We do not even see the tops of those hills yet, so for the moment let's call them the 'invisible hills'. Next pgrindrod's excellent visibility map from post 120 above: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&id=20817 The invisible hills are aboult half way up that image and indeed show no green shading. Now to go a bit further back here is a crop of the Endeavour HiRise image posted by SFJ Cody in post 105 of the Endeavour thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&id=16180 I think this shows the northernmost detached part of the invisible hills (rotated 180 degrees?), surrounded by a shoreline-like feature. (**speculation alert - Endeavour Lake???**). Finally, a vertically exaggerated view which nevertheless gives a good impression of the vertical extent of the topography within Endeavour, all of which should be visible from the viewpoint in question. This is from Marswiggle's post 121 in the Endeavour thread: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&id=17360 If someone with the google Mars facility could post a virtual panorama from the end of the yellow projected route that would be just wonderful. EDIT: One more handy link to add - a zoomable CTX courtesy of Stu, post 117 in 'Endeavour drive, drivability analysis' thread: http://global-data.mars.asu.edu/ctx/img/P0...1780_XI_02S005W |
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