Traverse to the Delta, sols 379-414, 15 Mar 2022- 21 Apr 2022 |
Traverse to the Delta, sols 379-414, 15 Mar 2022- 21 Apr 2022 |
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Starting a new thread as we leave the landing site and start the drive around Seitah. It will probably be quite fast unless something interesting turns up in the ejecta of the craters along the path.
Here is a circular panorama for sol 379, already north of the landing site. Maybe there will be some drive-by shots of the landing site itself. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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I'm beginning to anticipate that April (more or less, depending on unpredictable opportunistic science stops and/or obstacles in the path) will be this amazing sequence of gradually improving imagery of the delta outcrops, with every few days leading to an incremental but noticeable improvement, a bit like the first approach of Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, etc. by Voyager or New Horizons. And maybe there'll be something remarkable in those images from ~150 meters away, or maybe it will just look like sedimentary layers with nothing out of the ordinary until the instruments get right onto the delta outcrops several months from now. We just don't know, but the potential is tantalizing.
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