Cape York - Shoemaker Ridge and the NE traverse, Starting sol 2735 |
Cape York - Shoemaker Ridge and the NE traverse, Starting sol 2735 |
Oct 4 2011, 12:20 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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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Oct 28 2011, 10:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Ah - a chance to examine the light-toned 'flange' around Cape York that we crossed so swiftly at Spirit Point. We're only about a metre below the highest point here so the cameras should just about have a clear 180 degree view across Endeavour should they choose to look that way.
Someone (fredk?) recently re-posted a view of the summit from the vicinity of pathfinder mound. If anyone were so inclined It should now be possible to 'place' the rover at today's location within that view. I think that would nicely put the scale of our recent rovings in perspective. |
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