Cape York, Landfall! |
Cape York, Landfall! |
Aug 10 2011, 06:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
It’s finally time for a new thread. THE thread, I would say.
It is now sol 2681 and after virtually one thousand sols, beginning on 1683 when Opportunity left Victoria for good, and also after more than 21km driving on these flat fields, this little rover and obviously the brave mission’s people behind, made landfall on Cape York. A bunch of pictures and thumbnails are already on the ground (should be public in an hour or so) and the very limited data we can gather for the time being are just enough to guess a drive of around 60m. I’ve prepared a new picture to use as a map to follow this part of the mission and which I will update, as usual, on the route map thread once more data are available. Here’s a copy of it. Use this thread for comments, discussions, mosaics, images result of activities at / after sol 2681 and keep using the Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point' thread for posts related with stuff from before sol 2681. |
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Aug 11 2011, 06:26 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
I guess it is stating the obvious, but the bedrock here appears to be a planed off jumble of ejecta blocks.
-------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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Aug 11 2011, 11:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Phoenix, AZ USA Member No.: 9 |
the bedrock here appears to be a planed off jumble of ejecta blocks. Hmmm, I'm not so sure, Tom. Here is a quick photo interpretation of a piece of Mike Howard's pan: The unit the rover is on now seems like it could be a highly fractured eolian sandstone, maybe similar to the lower part of the Burns formation seen at Victoria and Endurance. Some of the fractures are filled with bright-looking minerals. Also intriguing are the horizontal features on the slope and crater floor in the distance. Here is a key of my interpretations: red lines: large-scale trough cross bed foresets black arrows: apparent sediment transport direction yellow lines: mineralized sub-vertical fractures blue lines: receding shorelines?!?!?! -------------------- Tim Demko
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