MSL at Rocknest, First scoop samples - sols 57-101 |
MSL at Rocknest, First scoop samples - sols 57-101 |
Oct 8 2012, 08:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
I am, as usual, uncertain what "small rise," you are referring to in the overhead view Thanks for persisting! I'll have one more go at explaining. On Peter's map http://petergrindrod.net/wp-content/upload...g-site-topo.png it's about 250 metres from Glenelg at two o'clock - just high enough for an 'island' of yellow colour. I think it may also be visible in the Bradbury Landing panorama. |
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Oct 8 2012, 09:50 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 19-September 12 Member No.: 6658 |
Nice picture of the first scoop sample. Near the botton, slightly right off the middle is a strange piece - couldn't locate it in the navcam images though. Maybe something scraped off the rover(wheels)?
And what a nice and clean cut - you can even see the dust layers |
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Oct 8 2012, 09:56 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 222 Joined: 7-August 12 From: Garberville, CA Member No.: 6500 |
On Peter's map http://petergrindrod.net/wp-content/upload...g-site-topo.png it's about 250 metres from Glenelg at two o'clock - just high enough for an 'island' of yellow colour.... Ok ngunn, look right in the center of this anaglyph (this thing pops right out in 3D). There's a Big Island there. Is that the island you're looking for? Based on the Mt. Sharp ridge lines in the background it would be just a bit north of due east from the MSL position on Sol 51 from which this anaglyph was made, so pretty well corresponds to the island you're referring to on Peter's map. BTW this is a crop of a much larger anaglyph I'm working on from the Sol 51 Mastcams... -------------------- "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot
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Oct 8 2012, 09:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 11-December 07 From: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Member No.: 3978 |
I too noticed it ronald. Here is a cropped view
The full image reduced for context; at first I thought it was just another hot pixel. More uralane? Edit: Curiosity tweets that there is some speculation that it could be a piece of rover hardware. (Is Curiosity shaking herself to bits....?) -------------------- |
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Oct 8 2012, 10:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Responding to Ed Truthan: Yes I think that's it. Big/small - it's all relative. (It looks quite small on the map, and probably has no significance beyond helping us to orient ourselves) Great anaglyph!
EDIT: I should have said more. This anaglyph is the best realisation so far of the light-toned hollow at the outer boundary of the high thermal inertia unit. |
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Oct 8 2012, 10:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 11-December 07 From: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Member No.: 3978 |
Sub frame images from the video are pouring in and some more:
Close up of the scooped area:0061MR0319001000E1_DXXX Finally we might be able to see how the wind affected the falling dirt:0061MR0306001000E1_DXXX -------------------- |
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Oct 8 2012, 10:29 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 10-August 11 Member No.: 6119 |
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Oct 8 2012, 10:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Ok ngunn, look right in the center of this anaglyph (this thing pops right out in 3D). Nice anaglyph, it really shows the depression. It resembles a dry lake bed in Southern California's high desert. The only thing missing is a RAV4 parked out there. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Oct 8 2012, 10:37 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10153 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Curiosity can get to places even a RAV4 can't reach.
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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Oct 8 2012, 10:44 PM
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The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
She already has, Phil.
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Oct 8 2012, 11:12 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 11-December 07 From: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Member No.: 3978 |
Update on the bright object
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Oct 8 2012, 11:21 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 26 Joined: 3-August 12 Member No.: 6455 |
Update on the bright object Would they go as far as to dump the current sample in order to use MAHLI to take a look? |
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Oct 8 2012, 11:29 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 11-December 07 From: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Member No.: 3978 |
Would they go as far as to dump the current sample in order to use MAHLI to take a look? By imaging I think they'll start with the 100mm Mastcam before doing something drastic with an arm that may be lacking a component (assuming it is from the arm). -------------------- |
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Oct 8 2012, 11:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 112 Joined: 20-August 12 From: Spain Member No.: 6597 |
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Oct 8 2012, 11:41 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 252 Joined: 5-May 05 From: Mississippi (USA) Member No.: 379 |
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