Pool: Arrival at Victoria, Place your bets... |
Pool: Arrival at Victoria, Place your bets... |
Aug 5 2005, 07:50 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 25-March 05 Member No.: 216 |
OK - for a little diversion, give your best guess as to the arrival of Oppy at Victoria. Before we do that, perhaps some agreement as when we can say that event has happened.
First complete panorama of crater interior perhaps? -------------------- My Open Office Website: http://www.openofficetips.com
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Aug 5 2005, 09:57 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
I go with ObsessedWithWorlds. I am sort of sick of this obsession with Victoria. Mission managers have previously identified the etched terrain as a scientific target. There is about as far to go to Victoria through the Etched terrain as Oppy has travelled south through the dunefields. I seem to remember that Etched terrain also has significant altitude changes, meaning that it might actually show more layers than Victoria. Victoria might be just a jumbled mess of rocks that are hard to reach.
People should appreciate more where we *are*. -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Aug 5 2005, 10:27 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 713 Joined: 30-March 05 Member No.: 223 |
QUOTE (akuo @ Aug 5 2005, 11:57 PM) when reading the posts in this board one can sense an overhelming appreciation of this mission, of what has been reached so far and of the people at JPL enabling it ... almost every serious post is full of this sense of appreciation and gratefulness (that's why I love this forum above so many other discussion boards, BTW I for myself am thankful for every single image, well knowing that it can be the last one every day and that every additional sol is a true gift for us ... It's more than appreciated But then there are of course also the dreams and the curiosity, the desire to reach even new horizon's, romantic legends like Ultreya and Victoria ... there is nothing wrong with this feelings: they have always been the driving force behind science and human exploration ... |
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Aug 6 2005, 09:27 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
QUOTE (Nirgal @ Aug 5 2005, 10:27 PM) QUOTE (akuo @ Aug 5 2005, 11:57 PM) People should appreciate more where we *are*. when reading the posts in this board one can sense an overhelming appreciation of this mission, of what has been reached so far and of the people at JPL enabling it ... almost every serious post is full of this sense of appreciation and gratefulness (that's why I love this forum above so many other discussion boards. You misunderstand, the fact that the mission is appreciated is self-evident. I was just looking for some appreciation for Etched terrain, where we have now arrived. Steve Squyres and Joy Crips identified the Etched terrain as the science target after Endurance, not Victoria. Etched terrain around Oppy now covers an area by far larger than Victoria. If you look at the high resolution image of Oppy's landing ellpise, you can see that Etched terrain is a very common type of terrain in Meridiani. Now people seem to want to use this as just a bounding board to (yet) another crater. That Oppy should speed as fast as it can through this terrain, with minimal investigations. I disagree with this. I think Oppy should spend at least as much time investigating this terrain as was spent on Endurance. -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Aug 7 2005, 10:28 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
777 - I think it depends on how interesting the etched terrain turns out to be.
QUOTE (akuo @ Aug 6 2005, 10:27 PM) Etched terrain around Oppy now covers an area by far larger than Victoria. If you look at the high resolution image of Oppy's landing ellpise, you can see that Etched terrain is a very common type of terrain in Meridiani. So are the dune fields. However, once they have established the ground truth for the etched terrain. Confirmed what seems obvious (top layer all the way) with some hard data, i think that the possibililty of older layers being visible/accessible at victoria represent the deepest-time window into meridiani's history Oppy will get. That still remains one of the most important objectives of the mission. . |
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