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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Apr 7 2011, 08:43 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10226 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Interesting! I forgot about that. Looks like my feature shows up better on that - the last one of the set.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Apr 8 2011, 09:23 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 59 Joined: 18-July 07 From: London, UK Member No.: 2873 |
Interesting! I forgot about that. Looks like my feature shows up better on that - the last one of the set. Phil Might be heading towards Distant Vistas here (please feel free to move), but good eyes Phil! There does seem to be a subdued and dark crater on those slopes. Getting a rough view alignment between my HiRISE DEM and your stretched pan shows a pretty good match, and where this dark thing is. And looking a bit closer from another angle it is still there. But there's a bit of driving to do before we get here... Pete |
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