Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point' |
Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point' |
Feb 8 2011, 03:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Starting a new topic to include Eduardo's Google overlay for the rest of the journey to Cape York:
http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/gmars_ma...41_1775_RED.kml Follow the link above and it should load right in to your Google Mars features. I took a low crow's flight along the final 6km this morning. Below in green is what I think the final route will look like. Also an interesting feature along the way that appears to be a cluster of rocks, possibly Santa Maria ejecta, or large meteorite fragments. Note how the dune has evolved around the three (or more) objects. Object is at -2.199395°, -5.396676° -- roughly 3km down range from Santa Maria. EDIT: bad link replaced, wider context image added for three rocks. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Mar 31 2011, 04:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4256 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
There was discussion a while ago of a low region just to the SE of Santa Maria. We're definitely in it now, as you can tell from how little we can now see of the rim of Endeavour.
Compare this view of the N rim "twin peaks" from when we arrived at SM: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...J3P2297R2M1.JPG with this recent view: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...2M1.JPG?sol2552 And the far E rim with it's famously unnamed crater: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...J3P2297R2M1.JPG is now just barely peeking above the horizon: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...2M1.JPG?sol2552 I expect we'll climb back out of this low in a couple of drives when we make it to the exposed bedrock area ahead. I still think this is a really cool area: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...2M1.JPG?sol2551 |
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