The Start of the Drive East, Up to Cambridge Bay Options

[Robert S]

LOL @ Egon! Haha, nice train! =)

[Bill Harris]

This is an interesting site with rather dramatic changes in the rock over relatively short distances across that "fracture zone." The latest MIs to come down image a curiously porous rock; one of the more porous Meridiani rocks we have seen.

Yes, from the recent Rover update from the PS, it looks like the MER Team finds it as interesting as we have:

At Cambridge Bay, Opportunity has been homing in on a purple colored stratum sandwiched between buff colored strata, Arvidson said. It is intriguing because it may be an altered horizon or a different facies within the sedimentary rocks, he elaborated yesterday.

http://www.planetary.org/news/2010/0831_Ma...ate_Spirit.html

And they have been making stops looking for facies changes before we drop onto the new part of the section.

As I said, this is getting to be exciting...

--Bill



PS-- a new L257 of a weathering zone at Cambridge, Sol 2336 (added 5 Sept)

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[Tesheiner]

I was wondering if someone would post the whole mosaic of Cambridge Bay here and just found that Horton did that on the "other forum". It's a 6x1 L257 pancam mosaic.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortonheardawho/4968004842/

[jamescanvin]

I was just working on it.





Both images link to the same page.

James