Cape York - Shoemaker Ridge and the NE traverse

Cape York - Shoemaker Ridge and the NE traverse, Starting sol 2735

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Stu

Oct 4 2011, 12:20 PM

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Oppy's next destination - the Shoemaker Ridge...

(3D version here http://roadtoendeavour.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/sr-3d.jpg )

Some more height...surrounded by lots of gorgeous rocks...view right across Endeavour... our first view too, probably, of the Promised Land in the centre of Cape York where the phylosillicates are waiting to be found...

Go get 'em, Oppy!

Edit: looks like Oppy's on the move...

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...84P1211L0M1.JPG

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CosmicRocker View Member Profile	Oct 13 2011, 06:07 AM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116	QUOTE Here — context image! Take it! You'll need it! Matt: If you are going to post an image supporting a discussion about the need to find north facing slopes, you should either put a north arrow on your map, or you should follow the convention of making maps which have north at the top. Just a suggestion to make it easier for the rest us us to follow your line of reasoning. -------------------- ...Tom I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast.

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Stu Cape York - Shoemaker Ridge and the NE traverse Oct 4 2011, 12:20 PM

fredk It looks like the 2735 move was towards the west, ... Oct 4 2011, 02:23 PM

Bill Harris QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Oct 2 2011, 08:41 AM... Oct 4 2011, 05:36 PM

charborob Navcam panorama of Oppy's position on sol 2735... Oct 5 2011, 12:32 PM

jvandriel The Pancam L2 view from Sol 2735 and 2736 stitched... Oct 5 2011, 07:45 PM

fredk Looks like a good drive roughly to the north (away... Oct 6 2011, 02:13 PM

Bill Harris It looks as though they're heading along the r... Oct 6 2011, 02:49 PM

Matt Lenda QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Oct 6 2011, 06:49 AM... Oct 7 2011, 02:39 AM

Tesheiner Looking north on this image, CY looks almost flat ... Oct 6 2011, 06:07 PM

jvandriel The Navcam L0 view in the drive direction on Sol 2... Oct 6 2011, 06:12 PM

fredk This looks like a precariously perched rock: But ... Oct 6 2011, 07:51 PM

ngunn QUOTE (fredk @ Oct 6 2011, 08:51 PM) a pr... Oct 6 2011, 09:26 PM

PDP8E 10x precariously perched rock (noise cancel on st... Oct 7 2011, 03:01 AM

Bill Harris Ah, I remember reading about the need to winter-ov... Oct 7 2011, 04:52 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (PDP8E @ Oct 6 2011, 09:01 PM) 10x ... Oct 7 2011, 05:58 AM

mhoward Here's the Sol 2737 Pancam mosaic anaglyph. Wa... Oct 7 2011, 06:02 AM

Explorer1 At the far north-east corner is that odd straight ... Oct 7 2011, 06:45 AM

vikingmars QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Oct 7 2011, 08:45 AM) ... Oct 7 2011, 09:52 AM

fredk It looks like another substantial drive northish o... Oct 7 2011, 02:13 PM

mhoward This isn't precisely accurate (unless the rove... Oct 7 2011, 03:37 PM

Stu Wow... every time you do that I get a real slap-ac... Oct 7 2011, 06:00 PM

mhoward QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 7 2011, 11:00 AM) Anyone... Oct 7 2011, 07:21 PM

climber I agree Stu...but mind...it's gona be "wo... Oct 7 2011, 07:09 PM

fredk Shoemaker Ridge looks pretty subtle from this side... Oct 7 2011, 07:57 PM

ngunn Really beautiful (and obviously well constructed) ... Oct 7 2011, 09:54 PM

Explorer1 Yes vikingmars, that's what I meant. Does it h... Oct 8 2011, 12:16 AM

vikingmars QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Oct 8 2011, 02:16 AM) ... Oct 8 2011, 12:57 PM

mhoward Sol 2738 Pancam mosaic right anaglyph I recommend... Oct 8 2011, 04:50 PM

Stu Love these low Sun angle views... Oct 8 2011, 09:21 PM

fredk My estimate of our location after the 2739 drive: ... Oct 8 2011, 10:25 PM

Stu QUOTE (fredk @ Oct 8 2011, 11:25 PM) And ... Oct 9 2011, 05:55 AM

mhoward QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 8 2011, 10:55 PM) two ne... Oct 9 2011, 06:17 AM

Stu They were *before* the drive? Sorry, should have c... Oct 9 2011, 06:50 AM

jvandriel The Navcam L0 view on Sol 2738. Jan van Driel Oct 9 2011, 08:39 AM

jvandriel and the Pancam L2 view on Sol 2738. Jan van Driel... Oct 9 2011, 08:52 AM

Oersted The slopes up ahead look promising for opportuniti... Oct 9 2011, 02:56 PM

MoreInput Funny, instead of slowly driving north to search f... Oct 9 2011, 06:37 PM

fredk Yeah, my impression is they want to map out any no... Oct 9 2011, 07:53 PM

Of counsel By my estimate, we're now on the southern edge... Oct 9 2011, 08:12 PM

mhoward A single Navcam image has made it to the web - one... Oct 9 2011, 08:15 PM

climber I'm a bit confused not to stay "lost... Oct 9 2011, 10:42 PM

fredk I'm not sure if this will help, but generally ... Oct 9 2011, 11:25 PM

climber QUOTE (fredk @ Oct 10 2011, 01:25 AM) I... Oct 10 2011, 01:15 PM

Bill Harris Interesting place, this Ridge of Shoemaker. FIrs... Oct 10 2011, 02:23 AM

mhoward Quite a view. Sol 2740 360x80 degree Navcam left ... Oct 10 2011, 02:35 AM

Tesheiner QUOTE (mhoward @ Oct 10 2011, 04:35 AM) Q... Oct 10 2011, 06:48 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Oct 9 2011, 08:23 PM... Oct 10 2011, 04:24 AM

fredk Yep - I don't recall a group of globby cobbles... Oct 10 2011, 04:38 AM

mhoward Where do you even start with a place like this? Wi... Oct 10 2011, 04:54 AM

mhoward Here's a version of the 360x80 degree Navcam a... Oct 10 2011, 05:13 AM

Bill Harris Curious, yes. Note that the cobbles all have a l... Oct 10 2011, 06:05 AM

Ron Hobbs QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Oct 9 2011, 10:05 PM... Oct 11 2011, 12:19 AM

Bill Harris Good application of a circular panorama. Compare ... Oct 10 2011, 11:11 AM

Phil Stooke My version of mhoward's nice panorama in circu... Oct 10 2011, 01:38 PM

Bill Harris I uploaded to the PhotoBucket site an index image ... Oct 10 2011, 04:59 PM

Sunspot Do those rectangular features correspond to the cl... Oct 10 2011, 05:22 PM

Floyd Nope, just the foundation stones of the old fort. Oct 10 2011, 05:38 PM

ElkGroveDan Now we know where it landed after it was sent spin... Oct 10 2011, 07:10 PM

fredk Nice view from sol 2736 showing Odyssey ejecta, th... Oct 10 2011, 08:12 PM

mhoward Not seamless, but... (Sol 2736 "Kirkland Lake... Oct 10 2011, 10:23 PM

Stu QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Oct 10 2011, 08:10 P... Oct 11 2011, 12:19 AM

Bill Harris And the P2405 sequence images today from Sol -2739... Oct 11 2011, 12:36 AM

fredk QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Oct 11 2011, 12:36 A... Oct 11 2011, 12:48 AM

eoincampbell Don't want to Tar dis thread but... I hope we ... Oct 11 2011, 12:38 AM

Bill Harris QUOTE (Ron_Hobbs)Those 'rectangular lineations... Oct 11 2011, 12:51 AM

Bill Harris QUOTE (FredK)I'd say that pancam sequence is l... Oct 11 2011, 12:56 AM

fredk Here's an identification of features to the NE... Oct 11 2011, 01:24 AM

mhoward QUOTE (fredk @ Oct 10 2011, 07:24 PM) Her... Oct 11 2011, 01:33 AM

fredk Yeah, I should say - I couldn't've made th... Oct 11 2011, 03:23 AM

CosmicRocker This paper associates phyllosilicates with polygon... Oct 11 2011, 06:17 AM

fredk QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Oct 11 2011, 06:17 ... Oct 11 2011, 02:56 PM

Stu Colour mosaic, showing lots of rugged rocky goodne... Oct 11 2011, 07:03 PM

stevesliva Are those clouds? I know the vertical stuff is du... Oct 11 2011, 08:00 PM

Stu QUOTE (stevesliva @ Oct 11 2011, 09:00 PM... Oct 11 2011, 08:17 PM

fredk No time to check, but it looks like we've driv... Oct 11 2011, 08:22 PM

ngunn [quote name='fredk' date='Oct 11 2011,... Oct 11 2011, 09:59 PM

fredk QUOTE (fredk @ Oct 11 2011, 08:22 PM) No ... Oct 12 2011, 12:19 AM

Stu Oooooohhhh.... Oct 11 2011, 08:24 PM

Stu Just to give a sense of scale of these features, h... Oct 11 2011, 09:11 PM

jamescanvin My version of the Kirkland Lake mosaic: That is... Oct 11 2011, 09:42 PM

mhoward Sol 2742 Navcam 360x80 left right anaglyph Oct 11 2011, 11:09 PM

mhoward Because this area might just be of particular inte... Oct 11 2011, 11:16 PM

Bill Harris New enhanced crop of HiRISE image ESP_024015_1775 ... Oct 11 2011, 11:23 PM

Jam Butty The 'back' of Stoughton, Pancam sol 2736, ... Oct 12 2011, 03:08 AM

mhoward QUOTE (Jam Butty @ Oct 11 2011, 08:08 PM)... Oct 12 2011, 03:11 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Oct 11 2011, 03:42 P... Oct 12 2011, 04:05 AM

CosmicRocker This is some of the most amazing imagery we have e... Oct 12 2011, 04:57 AM

Bill Harris The lineations are indeed not readily visible from... Oct 12 2011, 12:15 PM

Bill Harris QUOTE (CR)I love this outcrop Indeed-- there is so... Oct 12 2011, 12:27 PM

Stu Just for fun - but scale is correct - a couple of ... Oct 12 2011, 01:29 PM

fredk Nice post about the current mapping strategy at Le... Oct 12 2011, 02:25 PM

Bill Harris Neat. Does anyone know a public source for the to... Oct 12 2011, 02:45 PM

Jam Butty Small outcrop on Shoemaker Ridge 'B' Navca... Oct 13 2011, 12:27 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Oct 12 2011, 08:45 A... Oct 13 2011, 05:48 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE Here — context image! Take it! You... Oct 13 2011, 06:07 AM

Bill Harris I wasn't able to find an "OSU" on th... Oct 13 2011, 10:28 AM

Phil Stooke OSU - Ohio State University, where Dr. Ron Li and ... Oct 13 2011, 10:46 AM

Bill Harris Yes, I saw Li's CV and know what OSU is and la... Oct 13 2011, 11:05 AM

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