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What's So Interesting? |
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Oppy hasn't moved much lately and now they are looking at the front right wheel...
![]() What are they doing? -------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
- Steven Squyres |
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Also from the article:
The big science news for Opportunity is that we are now in the etched terrain. This crept up on us slowly, but we're now starting to understand what etched terrain looks like. We've known for a long time that the etched terrain has a "grain" to it, visible in orbital images, that runs north-south. And what we now realize is that the grain is caused by the very large ripples that we've been driving through. These ripples look different from the ones that we saw farther north. The obvious difference is that they're a lot bigger, but that's not all. Look at some of the recent pictures and you'll see what I'm talking about. We're going to look them over pretty carefully as we continue to the south. do we think he is referring to the bright soil that has been appearing in Oppy's tracks of late? or the micro craters? |
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Don't know about you guys, but if Steve Squyres can manage to post something
once a week I think it's great! That piece alone was a breath of fresh air oppossed to the meagre helpings we get from the Nasa homepage. Brilliant!! Thanks for reminding me about that site ![]() -------------------- Turn the middle side topwise....TOPWISE!!
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This is an excellent peice of news, the P.I. taking time to post on the web is wonderfull.
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