Getting into Victoria crater, Finding the right place & knowing Oppy's abilities Options

[climber]

We'll not know all the possible places to rove down into Victoria before having a complete view from different angles. Anyway, we can already see that the far rim slopes look very sandy and can only hope the near rim behave better. It's not only a matter of % of the slopes but also about drivability i.e. hard surface instead of sand. Most of the discussions with the pictures we have today are about going/not going inside. I thought we need a thread for this and also think that we can post here all the studies and teh video that have been done when Oppy was about to enter Endurance.
As a start, and to challenge the idea, I (re)post what I think could be a ramp to enter the crater. It's situated in the bleu F1 Bay in James' map. The reason is that the ramp look rocky as compared to all the other ramps visible on the far rim. There's also a lot of rocks to study instead of going nowhere.

[Guest_Edward Schmitz_*]

The views are spectacular, but that's not what the mission is about. Understanding the geology is Opportunity's purpose. The geology is not likely to change from spot to spot along the crater. The best science will be gained by going deeper - not around. It's my opinion that a good entrance should not be passed up.

Having said that...

It is starting to look like there might be some very steep angles in some of the layers of some of the outcrops.

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&id=7727

Nix posted that in another thread. If it is true that we are seeing angled layers, that would be very interesting to unravel...

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