Cape York, Landfall! |
Cape York, Landfall! |
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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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Innocent comment about Sol 2686 color pan: it looks like some of those rocks plunged into the sand. Is that possible?
edit, more specifically -- it looks like some of the rocks in Ant's post#185 plunged into the sand pretty recently. The tall skinny rock to the right about 5-10% off-center in the distance looks like it has its own little pile of ejecta. Is that possible, and if so have we seen anything like this? |
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![]() Administrator ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 ![]() |
Innocent comment about Sol 2686 color pan: it looks like some of those rocks plunged into the sand. Is that possible? I don't see it. When I see something steep with some stuff at the base of the steep slope, my general assumption is that some weathering process attacked the rock, and the stuff at the base is chunks that fell off of it. What I do find striking is how much rockier this area is than anything Opportunity's seen before. So far in the mission, everywhere you see rock, except in ejecta from very recent craters, the rock has been scoured flat by wind and sand. This new rock is more resistant to Meridiani's sandblasting winds -- maybe not as hard as the Gusev basalts, but harder than Meridiani sulfates. They better be cautious with the RAT! -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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