Heading south from Cape York, Opportunity's post-conjunction adventures / Sol 3291 - 3387 Options

[Phil Stooke]

Oh... OK... I was looking at this 3343 image and thinking it had to be where my lines show it here.

Phil

[Bill Harris]

Tis possible-- you;re thinking that the light-toned fragments to the South (Navcam) are that low hill to the South (HiRISE)? The relief is so subdued here it's hard to tell. We have a Navcam Albedo pan on the table (with one bad frame), that would be ideal to polar project for Location. Expecting that last image just anytime...

--Bill

[Tesheiner]

Oh... OK... I was looking at this 3343 image and thinking it had to be where my lines show it here.

Perfect matching. And I think the same features are visible on the navcam from sol 3342.

PS: Can't update the route map until the weekend. I'm travelling.

[mhoward]

I think your position is correct too, Phil. The drive direction images on sol 3342 were facing east, so perhaps she's not done photographing Nobby's Head. Here's an anaglyph view.

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[Phil Stooke]

This is half of a circular pan from sol 3339. The low hills where we are at present (3342) are visible to the southeast of this location.

Phil

[Bill Harris]

The "missing piece" of the Albedo Pan hasn;t arrived so I did a quick cylindrical pan and reprojected it as a Polar pan.

Sol-3342, p2297, L2 Albedo Pan. North approx up:

--Bill

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[Bill Harris]

Practicing a bit with polars, here is a 3x1 Navcam from Sol-3442. North approximately up.

And we have several interesting Pancam sequences in the pipeline...

--Bill

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[Bill Harris]

My best "TLAR" guesstimate of where Oppy is on Sol-3345:

--Bill

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[Tesheiner]

I think the last two sites, 3342 and 3344, are slightly south of those positions. Here're the two vertical projections I just made to update my route map.

[Bill Harris]

slightly south

I think so, too. That crater to the south of the track is the larger of the two and is next to that "low hill" that confused me once again.
It's not as prominent as it looks from HiRISE-- some of the deceptive relief may be emphasized by albedo features.

The L257...Pancam sequences are still on the way, the L2/R2 stereo pairs are starting their way down.

Berrio_Crater_2x1_L257R2 Sol-3044
Berrio_bench_L257R2 "
Carlindi_half_L257R2 "

Numbat_L257R12467 Sol-3344
Hornby_L257R2 "
Mulga_L257R12467 "
Chameleon_L257R2 "
Jacky_L257R12467 "

The current site is that "updip, low in the sequence" area we were hoping for. Oh joy!

--Bill

[Ant103]

My take on this Sol 2244 & 2245 full 360 Navcam pan

[Phil Stooke]

Nice pan - here's my circular version. Let's see if we can locate those names on it. (we had a Numbat 2 sols ago, and a Berrio crater near Whim Creek... seems a bit odd)

Phil

[Bill Harris]

Right. The "Berrio Crater" (and -Bench) were Sol-3044. Those hid nicely in the Sol-3344 image list...

--Bill

[Tesheiner]

Let's see if we can locate those names on it.

They were shot on the same sol but at the previous site, the one from sols 3342-3344 with ID "C200". Most, if not all of them, are on today's downlink.

[Bill Harris]

It's not that bad. There are some 20 post-Esperance named sites and of these 8-9 are the current crop. The problem is keeping up with things in the long run.

--Bill