Opportunity Route Map |
Opportunity Route Map |
Feb 11 2005, 08:11 AM
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Jan 6 2007, 11:34 AM
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There's relatively little science to be gained by Oppy going down into Victoria beyond the limits of bedrock exposure. As at Endurance, you get into the sand sheet dominated zone and traction gets seriously "iffy" long before you reach the dune field. What they'd REALLY like to do is go down one "boat ramp" and hug the side of a cape, getting a super-detailed view of layering and MiniTES spectra and X-ray/Mossbauer/Microscopic imager targets all the way down to the base of the cape. Then they'd like to "round the cape" and start up the opposite side, or traverse to the next cape's bottom and start up, repeating the super detailed stratigraphic exam in reverse.
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