Post Solar Conjunction/Santorini Study Drive, The second leg in our Journey to Endeavor Crater |
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Post Solar Conjunction/Santorini Study Drive, The second leg in our Journey to Endeavor Crater |
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 Dec 21 2008, 08:58 PM
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As we are about to end our study of The Cobble Santorini and getting ready to hit the road again.
I think it's time we start a new topic on the drive to come. What challenges do we face and can we keep to solid pavement as much as possible   and a Merry Christmas to our little buddies on The Planet Mars. |
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Dec 22 2008, 07:55 PM
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Founder  Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
01747 p2286.06 27 0 27 0 1 55 pancam_albedo_pan_L1
Might well mean a coord campaign with MRO/MODY Doug |
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 Dec 23 2008, 11:33 PM
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-------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Dec 23 2008, 11:50 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Anaglyph of Santorini MIs...
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Dec 24 2008, 12:35 AM
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Wow! That just looks heavy and dense.
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Dec 24 2008, 12:59 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Shaka commented in the last post on the "Conjunction" thread on the shininess. Is this perhaps due solely to windblasting by that ubiquitous talcum-powder dust?
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Dec 24 2008, 02:55 AM
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The wire-brushed shiny surface of Santorini sure looks amorphous. Maybe some of the long-sought shock melt?
I wonder what the spectrometer results will show... (I hope they got good readings...) -- MarkG |
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Dec 24 2008, 03:21 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Bit rough and ready but interesting anyway...
"Shiny!" as Mal and his crew would say...  -------------------- |
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Dec 24 2008, 03:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721 |
And the first post-conjunction drive, although I don't think Eduardo will be updating the route map for this one.
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Dec 24 2008, 04:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Not really.
 The shortest drive in a long time: 0.8m. <back to the kitchen and "helping" with the dinner> |
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Dec 24 2008, 06:29 PM
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Next excellent Horton's work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/3132953871/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/3132886769/ (By setting the cursor on right image, you can choose detailed images) -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
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Dec 24 2008, 06:48 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10153 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
The basalts seen by Spirit early in the mission looked like Santorini as well - this might be basaltic ejecta from a distant crater.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Dec 25 2008, 04:08 PM
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Er, thanks Peter59 for linking to my Santorini MI images.
Unfortunately, one of my image note links was wrong and led to a focus zoom animation rather than to the MI pan. I have corrected the link and you may follow it to this pan:  I wondered why there were 136 "looks" for one pan and only 20 for the other - but 66 for the MI focus zoom... A 15 image MI sequence has been uploaded for sol 1751 ( tomorrow sol ( for target Andros(?))) in the target area Crete |
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Dec 26 2008, 09:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
I can't decide whether Santorini has actually been brushed or not. The putative circular edge of the brushed area is also the fractured edge of the reflective face of the rock (according to Stu's anaglyph).
Can anyone find a command to Oppy which corresponds to brushing Santorini? Phil, did we see this degree of reflectivity in the earlier basalts? -------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Dec 26 2008, 10:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 133 Joined: 3-June 06 From: the jungle of Nool Member No.: 799 |
QUOTE (Shaka @ Dec 26 2008, 04:34 PM)  I can't decide whether Santorini has actually been brushed or not. The putative circular edge of the brushed area is also the fractured edge of the reflective face of the rock (according to Stu's anaglyph). Can anyone find a command to Oppy which corresponds to brushing Santorini? Phil, did we see this degree of reflectivity in the earlier basalts? I can't find any front hazcam images of the RAT positioned on Santorini. However, there does appear to be a difference in the brightness of the top between 1713 and 1747.  Perhaps the difference is due to the sun reflecting off the MI instrument box onto the top of the cobble. Here is a colorized version of the MI pan:  Hmmm... |
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