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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Aug 9 2011, 02:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
It's hard to tell from this distance whether the layering in the central mound is from algorimancer's remnant "beaches" or is from centsworth's layered Meridiani sediments, though my money's on the latter. That could still be analogous to the Gale mound, if you imagine the Meridiani sediments being stripped away from the entire landscape except inside the crater. But maybe the albedo features in the bottom of the trough could be the remnants of a dried-up lake??
There's years of work to do here... John |
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Aug 9 2011, 02:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 362 Joined: 13-April 06 From: Malta Member No.: 741 |
It's hard to tell from this distance whether the layering in the central mound is from algorimancer's remnant "beaches" or is from centsworth's layered Meridiani sediments, though my money's on the latter. That could still be analogous to the Gale mound, if you imagine the Meridiani sediments being stripped away from the entire landscape except inside the crater. But maybe the albedo features in the bottom of the trough could be the remnants of a dried-up lake?? There's years of work to do here... John Just wish that you are right and that Oppy will survive to give us those years for future work and discovery!! |
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