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Atop/Around the Greenheugh Pediment, Site 79-, sol 2695-3199, 3 Mar 2020-6 Aug 2021
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post Apr 17 2020, 03:17 PM
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The Navcam L view on Sol 2736.

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post Apr 17 2020, 04:29 PM
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post Apr 22 2020, 11:19 PM
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Sol 2741 long-range RMI:
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post Apr 24 2020, 09:32 AM
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The MASTCam R Animation on Sol 2740.

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post Apr 25 2020, 01:10 PM
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Curiosity rover bypassing Tower Butte on sol 2742:



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post Apr 26 2020, 01:20 PM
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The Navcam L view on Sol 2742-2743.

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post Apr 27 2020, 01:04 PM
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Was it always planned for the rover to descend off the pediment back onto the clay unit or did I miss something?
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post Apr 27 2020, 01:58 PM
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The Navcam L view on Sol 2745.

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post Apr 27 2020, 08:16 PM
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Here is Jan's panorama for sol 2745 in circular form. A nice view of the two buttes nearby.

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post Apr 27 2020, 10:13 PM
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QUOTE (Julius @ Apr 27 2020, 05:04 AM) *
Was it always planned for the rover to descend off the pediment back onto the clay unit or did I miss something?

AFAIK this was always the plan, but I'm not sure if it was explicitly said or just somewhat implied in the status reports.
See https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/8...diment-for-now/ and note the use of the phrase "mini campaign".


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post Apr 27 2020, 10:38 PM
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One of the most important targets of the entire mission is the contact between the clay unit in Glen Torridon and the sulfate hills above it, which is assumed to mark a major change in global climate from (let's call it) moist to arid. The Pediment straddles that contact, so if you stay on it you have missed the crucial exposures. They went up because it was possible at that location, so why not have a quick look at it in case a failure ends the mission before they meet it again higher up the mountain.

This LPSC abstract shows the planned path ahead, as of just a few months ago.

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2020/pdf/2426.pdf



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post Apr 28 2020, 12:59 AM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 28 2020, 06:38 AM) *
This LPSC abstract shows the planned path ahead, as of just a few months ago.
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Does anyone know if the figures from this abstract are available at a higher resolution? Maybe in another document, or a large poster?
I'm particularly interested in Fig1 that shows the MSAR version 9 or later smile.gif
It would be nice to see the detail of the proposed path around the pediment up to the sulfate hills
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post Apr 28 2020, 05:55 AM
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One approach is to use the HiRISE browser search for Gale and zoom into the Gedis Valles area and pan and poke around through the madly overlapping needles in that haystack to find the good views like this one. some of that area was also in the 50th LPSC abstract
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