Atop/Around the Greenheugh Pediment, Site 79-, sol 2695-3199, 3 Mar 2020-6 Aug 2021 |
Atop/Around the Greenheugh Pediment, Site 79-, sol 2695-3199, 3 Mar 2020-6 Aug 2021 |
Mar 6 2020, 04:33 PM
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Sol 2695: Just a short drive / climb, but a very welcome one to get all 6 wheels off the slope and onto the top of the pediment
Roughly stitched L-NavCam partial pan using MS-ICE with the available images. I'm sure the full 360 will be memorable... BTW: maybe a good time for a new thread? (Traversing the Greenheugh Pediment?) |
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Apr 27 2020, 10:38 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10229 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
One of the most important targets of the entire mission is the contact between the clay unit in Glen Torridon and the sulfate hills above it, which is assumed to mark a major change in global climate from (let's call it) moist to arid. The Pediment straddles that contact, so if you stay on it you have missed the crucial exposures. They went up because it was possible at that location, so why not have a quick look at it in case a failure ends the mission before they meet it again higher up the mountain.
This LPSC abstract shows the planned path ahead, as of just a few months ago. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2020/pdf/2426.pdf Phil -------------------- ... 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 PDF: 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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