Distant Vistas 2 - The view from Cape Tribulation |
Distant Vistas 2 - The view from Cape Tribulation |
Nov 17 2014, 08:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
The latest pancams show some interesting bumps on the far horizon as well as long 'swells' on the plain that might respond well to 'phil-o-vision'. Time for the 'Distant Vistas' team to resume work? I'm not going to attempt the first identifications as I have little idea what azimuths we're looking at. Also I don't know what visibility to expect with the current dust levels.
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Jan 10 2015, 01:56 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1053 Joined: 17-February 09 Member No.: 4605 |
Emily did a blog entry on MOLA tracks back in August 2010 and Conception is recorded as having an elevation of -1372m relative to Mars datum. Cape Tribulation has an elevation of -1380m so at the top of the mound near Conception Opportunity was a smidgeon higher than she is now. But relative to the approach to Cape Tribulation Opportunity climbed around 135 metres. Spirit climbed around 107 metres above the landing site but only some 82 metres above the base of Husband Hill.
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Jan 15 2015, 04:01 AM
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Emily did a blog entry on MOLA tracks back in August 2010 and Conception is recorded as having an elevation of -1372m relative to Mars datum. Cape Tribulation has an elevation of -1380m so at the top of the mound near Conception Opportunity was a smidgeon higher than she is now. Remember that the MOLA samples are quite sparse. Emily's post shows that there are only a few samples very close to Oppy's route. (See also this post.) So we can't be very sure what the highest elevation we reached was. Given the uncertainty about our current elevation, I think we can only say that we're within 20 m or so of our highest point. From this official DTM elevation map you can only crudely read our elevation, but you might be able to get something more quantitative from some of the other images there. Pgrindrod did some elevation maps a while back; this one gives a good overall view of how we dropped from Victoria and then climbed back up. |
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