Beyond Lewis and Clark Gap, Sol 4482- (September 2, 2016-) Options

[fredk]

Stunning view!

Here's my best guess as to what we're seeing. Matching colours match:


The white arrows in the pancam view are my best guess for Perseverence Valley. But my confindence isn't extremely high...

Edit: see corrected views below...

(Btw, great to see you here again, Paolo!)

[atomoid]

fwiw, a few stereo outtakes on the sol4665 perspective compared with simulated views generated using Sean's sketchfab model and another closer-up view from the sky to the left of fredk's blue circle

[marswiggle]

I'm happy with fredk's yellow line, but beyond that, it seems we must use a bit grander scale to get features matched. From this several years old anaglyph (the respective view in reduced size), it looks like the peculiar ledge on the opposite Cape (is it called Cape Byron?) is akin to the white-headed feature in pancams. It is obvious that we should expect to see that Cape before being able to peek into the rather deep valley in between. The fresh dark crater is aligned with our destination gully along the lowest topography of the valley (thus being hidden by the local rim). Also the gully itself would appear rather subdued in relief until we practically drive on top of it. -Just my two cents as they say.

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[fredk]

Yeah, the feature I'd circled green would appear far larger than that.

Here are my corrected identifications:



As we proceed we should see the redlined ridge extend towards the lower left, until the head of Perseverence Valley (white arrows) will appear as a dip.

[jvandriel]

The Navcam L view on Sol 4663-4664.

Jan van Driel

[vikingmars]

The Navcam L view on Sol 4663-4664.
Jan van Driel

Thank a lot Jan van Driel
I hope that Opportunity will rove up the last few meters and take a quick and spectacular 360° pan from this nice vantage point !
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&id=40946

[fredk]

I'm surprized by this comment - usually all we see is an increase in tau and I would have guessed that a storm edge would be gradual.

Well, from the new press image, I guess they were talking about the 4653 pancam sequence, not the navcam frame. The pancam sequence spans a couple of minutes, about 10 minutes before the massive gust was caught on navcam. Here's an animation:

You can pretty clearly see a huge (based on its distance) gust front moving in from the left (north), just below the horizon.

I guess it's possible this continued to approach and became the gust visible in navcam.

[Phil Stooke]

Sol 4665 looks pretty bad too.

http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MERB/im...7P1987L0M1.html

Phil

[jvandriel]

The Pancam L2 view on Sol 4665.

Jan van Driel

[Phil Stooke]

Jan's last full panorama in circular form. It exaggerates the nearby summit to almost Everest-like proportions - sorry, Olivier, I don't think we'll be scrambling up that! Of course, if we do, it will just look like a little bump from the top.

Phil

[jvandriel]

The complete Navcam L0 view on Sol 4665-4667.

Jan van Driel

[Phil Stooke]

A circular view of Jan's panorama showing us passing Olivier's 'mound' (sorry about that, Olivier... maybe next time).

Phil

[vikingmars]

A circular view of Jan's panorama showing us passing Olivier's 'mound' (sorry about that, Olivier... maybe next time).
Phil

Thanks a lot Phil for your kind comment
'Sigh' for not having roved the 2nd summit...

Here is Opportunity's view on Mars from Sol 4668 along the rim of the big Endeavour crater...
Processed for you in real colors and in false colors, to enhance the local geological setting (with the hematite plains looking purple-gray). Enjoy

[polaris]

As always a fantastic work, Olivier.
By the way, congratulations for your impressive work in the last release of "Ciel & Espace" !

[vikingmars]

As always a fantastic work, Olivier.
By the way, congratulations for your impressive work in the last release of "Ciel & Espace" !

Thank you very much Polaris : your kind comments are much appreciated