El Dorado, The place formerly known as Ultreya Options

[dot.dk]

Steve has a new update:
http://athena1.cornell.edu/news/mubss/

And it looks like the official name for the Ultreya Abyss now is "El Dorado"

I looked up El Dorado and the poem is actually quite fitting

by Edgar Allan Poe
(1849)

Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be-
This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied-
"If you seek for Eldorado!"

[atomoid]

my person favorite shot so far of the Ultreya dust spilling over the ridge
and this closeup shot of a little drift of Ultreya (oop um, el Dorado) sand presumably in the wind shadow of Comanche, where the eddies pile it up.
This is one really illustrative case that the dark sands (dust) is much finer than the base sands...

[Nirgal]

Hi all,

I finally recovered from a computer crash having kept me busy installing new hardware and a new image processing environment for the last couple of weeks ...
(fortunately, I could recover most of my data from backups ...)
So here is the first image rendered on the new equipment:
... my color interpretation of one of Spirit's latest "Eldorado"- Navcam-views

[dilo]

Finally, you're back, Nirgal!
I'm happy!!!