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Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point'
Phil Stooke
post Apr 6 2011, 02:28 PM
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... and doing a 10x stretch of that image, we get a sense of what those mounds might look like close up. Looking at this, it seems most likely that a layer has been stripped away, leaving those mounds and a larger area at the right - but so thin you can only see it if you do this to the image.
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post Apr 6 2011, 06:27 PM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Apr 6 2011, 05:53 PM) *
That makes around 500m / week --> only 3 months to reach Cape York.
(I know, I know I shouldn't be doing this kind of math.) laugh.gif


It's about 770 meters since Oppy left Santa Maria, in just 17 sols.
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post Apr 6 2011, 09:06 PM
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Around 27500m.
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post Apr 6 2011, 09:35 PM
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Loving the depth of field here...

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post Apr 7 2011, 08:08 AM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Apr 6 2011, 06:53 PM) *
(I know, I know I shouldn't be doing this kind of math.) laugh.gif

Why not ? Some friends told me recently that they had to made route and timing projections to fine-tune Oppy's operational budget and staff issues in the near future. But, of course, any incident can occur while travelling, so timings are only guesses... As we used to say in France : "Ne soyons pas plus royalistes que le Roi" ("Let us not be more royalist than the King") !
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post Apr 7 2011, 10:36 AM
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QUOTE (vikingmars @ Apr 7 2011, 10:08 AM) *
Why not ?

Route and time projections are absolutely valid calculations, of course! smile.gif
What is not so valid, and that was the reason to my previous comment, is the easy math extrapolating data from a single week of driving.
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post Apr 7 2011, 01:32 PM
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Mean per sol from October 12th to December 8th (before getting to Santa Maria) was 39.9 m.
What about that viKINGmars laugh.gif
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post Apr 7 2011, 02:03 PM
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Beautiful horizon...

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post Apr 7 2011, 02:39 PM
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It's just like the approach to the Columbia Hills all over again smile.gif
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post Apr 7 2011, 03:23 PM
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Here's a comparison of the view from Concepcion crater and the view now (from Stu's post above), with a 10x stretch of course.

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post Apr 7 2011, 04:59 PM
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And closing in on Cape Tribulation, there's a crater on its slope that I had not noticed before, though it was probably visible a long way back.

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post Apr 7 2011, 06:53 PM
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Could it be a JPEG artifact? I can't see it on the HiRISE pics. huh.gif

WRT today's drive, I have no time to work on the map but I checked the "telemetry" and Opportunity covered around 140m today! Let's keep this pace.
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post Apr 7 2011, 07:08 PM
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This link:

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&id=23696

to one of Stu's images also shows it - so not an artifact, I'm pretty sure. I also tried to match it with HiRISE, and still not sure, but I'm still thinking about it. The crater it could be seems a bit off where I would expect it.

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EDIT - should be about here... subdued, and facing the sun so no shadow in it...? Maybe I'll say it's not a crater but various patches of rock.


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post Apr 7 2011, 07:40 PM
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I don't know if it helps with that crater, but here's the link back to Nirgal's 3Ds of Tribulation: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=156417
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post Apr 7 2011, 08:43 PM
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Interesting! I forgot about that. Looks like my feature shows up better on that - the last one of the set.

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