Perseverance valley |
Perseverance valley |
Jul 4 2017, 05:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 362 Joined: 13-April 06 From: Malta Member No.: 741 |
Time for another topic, me thinks.
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Apr 29 2018, 03:43 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 507 Joined: 10-September 08 Member No.: 4338 |
Thanks for that link Serpens. Very enlightening.
The focus on the origin of Perseverance is understandable. The urge to explain this unique feature is what led them to this location. I would hope though that there would also be scope for Opportunity to live up to its name and do some opportunistic science that might have nothing to do with the origin. In particular, I find the light-toned deposits on dark rocks fascinating. What is the chemistry of these deposits (as separate from the underlying rock)? Is there anything special about the distribution? Has this material blown down from Winnemucca plateau where there seems to be a large reservoir of the stuff? Is the composition essentially the same as the planet-wide wind-blown deposits? Perhaps some of the answers are to be found in the APXS results from the "Aguas Calientes" target. I guess we may have to await the next conference for those revelations. |
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