Zhurong maps, traverse route and location mapping |
Zhurong maps, traverse route and location mapping |
May 19 2021, 11:46 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10192 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I'm starting a map thread. It's hard to know what we will get but I expect a route map will emerge bit by bit. Maps showing the landing location will be easier to make initially.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jul 9 2021, 09:25 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10192 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
The LIBS instrument will give composition - they were within LIBS range.
There are dark dunes on Mars (e.g. Bagnold Dunes in Gale Crater) and bright features like this, usually called drifts or ripples. The dark features are made of basaltic sand and they can indeed by barchans - see also the Greeley Dune Field inside Endeavour crater. These brighter features are made of finer material, silt to dust sized particles. The reason the dark and light don't just mix to form mid-toned deposits is that the wind sorts particles by size. That finer material is probably mixed globally and doesn't tell much about local geology. (Continue discussion in the other thread) Here is a very rough update to the map using the new information. A new HiRISE image would be very useful! (or a Chinese map) 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 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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