Going To Mogollon..., ...and points South |
Going To Mogollon..., ...and points South |
Jan 20 2006, 02:30 PM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jan 20 2006, 05:38 AM) It was already said that those structures seen on previous hazcam pics (well, in all sort of cameras and filters...) were delicate. [attachment=3535:attachment] (138k) But what about these ones? It looks like the smallest touch could broke them. [attachment=3536:attachment] (138k) PS: It's time to open a new thread, don't you think so? Good idea. That topic was "tired" and had the cord showing. Delicate, to be sure. One thing I've noticed is that the "ledge-forming" rocks are a layer and extend to the right and left of where we camped out. I wonder if that feature is related to the bluff at Mogollon Rim? We need to check out the "mobile dust" at that site and see if there has been more movement during the stopover. --Bill -------------------- |
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Feb 20 2006, 02:48 AM
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It would be nice to have the IDD instruments, but with reconnaisance geology the primary thing one needs is boots and eyes (ie, a mobile Rover with functional Pancams); the handlens and scratchplate are useful but not essential. Oppy needs to stow the IDD and get to the next outcop...
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Feb 20 2006, 03:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
It would be nice to have the IDD instruments, but with reconnaisance geology the primary thing one needs is boots and eyes (ie, a mobile Rover with functional Pancams); the handlens and scratchplate are useful but not essential. Oppy needs to stow the IDD and get to the next outcop... --Bill I agree with you Bill, but I should point out that without the IDD our science in Endurance would have consisted of a lot of pictures of pretty stripes along the cliffs. The rules of superposition are kind of useless on an alien world without a means to put it all in context. (Wouldn't it be nice if a future mission had an isotopic absolute dating instrument?) Although now that we have some details on Endurance's layers, I'm guessing that we will be able to visually correlate those same layers in Victoria. But of course, the hope is we will find some deeper, older layers we haven't looked at yet. If those layers are chock full of rotini beastie fossils, I'll sure want to have the MI working I would say though that if the Pancam was the last functioning device on Oppy, it sure would be poetic fate for Steve Squyers. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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