MSL Post-conjunction: Drilling at Cumberland, Revisiting Point Lake and Shaler, site 6 cont'd, sols 272-323, May 12, 2013-July 4,2013 Options

[Zelenyikot]

That's a cosmic ray hit.

Thanks.

Two views of one rock. Sol 120 and 309

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[vikingmars]

A colourization try of Sol 312 Right NavCam sunset picture... Enjoy !

[EdTruthan]

Final anaglyph renders of the Sol 303 and Sol 306 mosaics of the big rock at Point Lake in different lighting. The lighting in the Sol 306 image really shows the variety and depth of the hollows and there's one very spiky pinnicle-like remnant that's quite visible in stereo.

(These are massive enough in pixel size browsers cough at them so I zipped the full-resolution versions for download.)

Sol 303 - Click thumb for half-resolution version at 4642 x 3208 px - 3.4MB:


~ Full Resolution Anaglyph version is here: Sol303-MC34-MC100-Point-Lake-Anaglyph-9283x6415px.zip (10.02MB)
~ Full Resolution 2-D version is here: Sol303-MC100-Point-Lake-9283x6415px.zip (8.5MB)

Sol 306 - Click thumb for half-resolution version at 4566 x 2817 px - 3.2MB:


~ Full Resolution Anaglyph version is here: Sol306-MC34-MC100-Point-Lake-Anaglyph-9132x5633px.zip (9.77MB)
~ Full Resolution 2-D version is here: Sol306-MC100-Point-Lake-9132x5633px.zip (8.5MB)

A copious number of mosaics from this last week just keep pouring in. Keeping track of what's arrived and how their arranged is a bit of a challenge. Some have all the MC34's in but I'll probably wait to collect the corresponding MC 100's for them before rendering them. There's a ton of amazing Shaler panoramas to stitch when the sets are complete. Will post when they're in. Exciting times!

[iMPREPREX]

Great stuff, everyone.
Here are 2 mosaics from Sol 319 - colorized ChemCam (not false color like I said before- sorry about that):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84750994@N05/...167766/sizes/l/
and:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84750994@N05/...307979/sizes/l/

[Zelenyikot]

Here are 2 mosaics from Sol 319 - colorized ChemCam (not false color like I said before- sorry about that):

My try

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[PaulH51]

A short but interesting report:-

Sol 322 Update on Curiosity from USGS Scientist Ken Herkenhoff: 'Contacting Shaler' (dated: 1 July 2013)

"Contact science," including APXS and MAHLI close-up observations of a couple of rocks at the "Shaler" outcrop, are being planned for Sols 322 and 323. There are still some concerns about the stability of the rover, so some of these observations may be delayed to Sol 323 to allow more time to confirm that the rover has not slipped. In the meantime, we're planning some MAHLI calibration and test activities on Sol 322, which will not involve placing the camera close to the surface.

LINK to Report

[centsworth_II]

According to John Bridges: Mars Science Laboratory Blog July 1st entry, "This weekend a group of us... went on a field trip to sample areas in the southwest UK - mudstones with sulphate veining - that we are studying in parallel with the MSL research."

Maybe they were headed to the area discussed in this paper:
Gypsum veins as hydrofractures in layered and faulted mudstones...

The mudstone matrix is even the right color!

"Here we present field measurements of mineral veins in coastal sections near the village of Watchet on the Somerset Coast of Southwest England."

[Phil Stooke]

http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MSL/ima...000E1_DXXX.html

Looks like one of those bubble things seen earlier.

Phil

[fredk]

In stereo:

[mhoward]

Wow! That's a nice bubble. That was on the way back to Shaler; actually it's the same general area where she saw several bubbles on the way into Yellowknife Bay.

Shaler is to the SW in this view and the bubble is in the white box:

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[EdTruthan]

Dusk & Twilight... Sol 322...

[Phil Stooke]

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/news?id=news/...ng-up-at-shaler

Finishing up! - and a drive planned for sol 324. Perhaps this is ambiguous - is that drive the 'finishing up' or the start of the long drive? Regardless, it's a drive so I can map it

Phil

[atomoid]

nice shots SOL 323 otherworldly-weathered saw-edge of a broken plate-strewn pizza factory

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[Bill Harris]

otherworldly-weathered saw-edge of a broken plate-strewn pizza factory

I like that (Prose and Functionality).

--Bill

[Zelenyikot]

Sky in MAHLI.
I think they try to catch clouds in focus.

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