Cape York - The "Lakelands", Starting sol 2703 |
Cape York - The "Lakelands", Starting sol 2703 |
Sep 1 2011, 04:30 PM
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Bye bye, Tisdale. It's time to move on.
Next target? Philosilicates. ----- Edited on Sep 16 2011. This thread is dedicated to the exploration of Cape York, starting on sol 2703 when Opportunity left the "rocky garden" and started moving towards Chester Lake. |
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Oct 3 2011, 02:34 AM
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From the latest PS update, some news about Chester Lake:
QUOTE "It has sort of a basaltic composition," Squyres continued. "It does not have a zinc enrichment like we saw at [Tisdale 2], so we're stating to think the zinc at the previous location might have been a coating instead of something deep in the rock. We're still thinking about that. It's a work in progress. We're still taking data." And discussion about the coming winter: QUOTE "There is a fair amount of dust on our solar arrays and it looks like this winter Opportunity will have a more difficult time of it than she has ever had in the past and it is of concern to us," elaborated Nelson. "We've put together a Winter Planning Team to begin gathering data." QUOTE If Opportunity can achieve a 15-degree slope to the north at least through the worst of winter, she could continue to move every day. "Less than that, then we might have to park the rover for a period of time," he said. QUOTE "We are looking at sites where we would leave Cape York and dash south and cross Botany Bay to places like Nobby's Head or even further," said Callas. "But we're still very early in this process and we really don't have the information yet to make these decisions. We are gathering that information now."
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Oct 3 2011, 09:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
"We are looking at sites where we would leave Cape York and dash south and cross Botany Bay to places like Nobby's Head or even further," said Callas. "But we're still very early in this process and we really don't have the information yet to make these decisions. We are gathering that information now." Well : let's have a nice look at Cape Tribulation : here is a quick merge between super hi-res http://pancam.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_ins...superres_4x.tif image and color image from Sol 2721... Some more geological delights to come... Yum ! Yum ! |
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