Journey to Mt Sharp - Part 4: Beyond the Kimberley, Sol 634 [May 19, '14] to 706 [Jul 31, '14] |
Journey to Mt Sharp - Part 4: Beyond the Kimberley, Sol 634 [May 19, '14] to 706 [Jul 31, '14] |
May 19 2014, 07:00 PM
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I'd say that the sol 634 drive put the Kimberley in the rear-view mirror, so it's time for a new thread! Let's see how fast they can move toward Murray Buttes now!
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May 20 2014, 12:50 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10191 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Here I have 'borrowed' jmknapp's nice topo map (posted in the route maps) and merged it with a CTX image. The red and orange hills at lower right are in the big dune field. This shows nicely that we have 1 km or so of driving across the depression we're in now, and then it will be uphill most of the time. The dunes are not in the lowest part of the crater, they are wrapped around the lower slopes of the hill.
Our current position is in the top right corner. Incidentally, we are about to move into the next map quadrangle, with a different source of names. We already crossed into it very briefly and then back into the Kimberley quad shortly before arriving at Kimberley. Phil EDIT: version with the original route plan on it: -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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