Travelling to the channels, Extraordinarily unlikely |
Travelling to the channels, Extraordinarily unlikely |
Aug 13 2011, 10:42 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
Opportunity is entering a multi-year science campaign at the rim of Endeavour crater, a campaign primarily driven by the interest in clays.
Eventually this investigation will conclude. So where next? Far, far to the south lies a location identified as a go-to target for one of the MSL candidate landing sites- a series of outflow channels. With no possibility of further Mossbauer integrations and the mini-TES severely degraded, wouldn't these features be good targets for an imaging/APXS only geology investigation? Iazu by the middle of the decade, unnamed crater south of Iazu by the end of the decade, channels by middle of the next decade... |
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