Post Marquette Island, The continuing journey to Endeavour Crater |
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Post Marquette Island, The continuing journey to Endeavour Crater |
 Jan 12 2010, 10:53 PM
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Perhaps it's now time to start a new topic: Oppy has hit the road again! Here's the view looking back from sol 2122:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...1SP1211R0M1.JPG And the view forward, towards Fresh Crater, our next destination? http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...1SP2355R1M1.JPG |
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Jan 12 2010, 10:56 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Guess that answers my question! (We posted at the same time, Fred!)
Guess we're going thissaway, then...
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Jan 13 2010, 12:43 AM
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It looks like a relatively short drive to the southeast, presumably to get onto the pavement that's now immediately to our south. But we must wait to hear from our resident expert mapmaker...
And the drive direction pancams are looking more to the SSE than the south, where "fresh crater" is. So who knows what the plan is, or even if there is a plan yet... |
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Jan 13 2010, 05:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721 |
Aaaah, is there anything more beautiful than fresh tracks heading off into the Martian distance? I know there was good science there, but I was still going through roving withdrawal. Let's hope Fresh Crater is a really boring place.
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Jan 13 2010, 06:31 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Interesting outcrop... thingy... Oppy drove to yestersol...
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Jan 13 2010, 11:32 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
QUOTE (fredk @ Jan 13 2010, 01:43 AM)  But we must wait to hear from our resident expert mapmaker... I'm on a business travel this week. Let's see if I can find some time to work with the maps... |
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Jan 13 2010, 02:33 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
I think the rover team will be dismayed for someone to suggest there is no drive plan......
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Jan 13 2010, 02:55 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Jan 12 2010, 10:31 PM) Interesting outcrop... thingy... Just d*mn. I'd say that is ancient degraded ejecta of some kind rather than any native "outcrop." -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jan 13 2010, 04:15 PM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Jan 12 2010, 06:43 PM) It looks like a relatively short drive to the southeast, presumably to get onto the pavement that's now immediately to our south. She swung around the north side of Marquette Island, and is now just to the east and slightly south of that fascinating rock, sort of in the next "drift trough" over. I imagine the next drive will be longer. |
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Jan 13 2010, 04:18 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
You're right Dan, that's a fascinating object...
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Jan 13 2010, 04:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
That does look interesting.
Kind of a mess, but here's where we are as of sol 2122: 
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Jan 13 2010, 06:42 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Just for fun, a comparison of "Fresh Crater" with an old friend, using same-scale crops from the same HiRISE image...
And a 2x crop of "Fresh Crater"... looks like some big rocks in and around it, and some nice internal structure too...
More pix at: http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2010/...ell-marquette-2 -------------------- |
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Jan 13 2010, 08:56 PM
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QUOTE (mhoward @ Jan 14 2010, 01:56 AM) interesting.....kind of a mess I like it - putting in jpegs from different days etc!!! Great context. |
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Jan 13 2010, 09:29 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Jan 13 2010, 06:42 PM) And a 2x crop of "Fresh Crater"... looks like some big rocks in and around it, and some nice internal structure too... Hmm...too many dunes for my taste...let's just ignore it and keep on the asphalt... 
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jan 13 2010, 09:42 PM
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A very rough reprojection of a pan from the last end-of-drive position:
And its approximate location (base from Google's Mars)
(I've replaced this image with an improved one, the arrow moved SW a bit) Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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