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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I think the point for me is not the detritus at the foot of those rocks, which would be normal as has been explained, but the fact that 3 of them in that view appear to be taller than they are broad (at least from the angle we view them). I imagine pieces of elongated ejecta thrown violently onto a HARD surface would generally bounce until they came to rest lying flat. But if they impact on a SOFT surface they would embed at the random orientation they were in when they hit.
So I'm just wondering if those ones embedded themselves in a regolith surface which had been fluidised, perhaps by the shock of the main imapct which created the crater. Soil fluidisation happens in earthquakes etc. |
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