Matijevic Hill detailed survey, Sol 3153 - 3290 Options

[fredk]

This has got to be a record - pics from sol 882 down today, that's 6 1/2 years ago!
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...2M2.JPG?sol----
That was by Beagle Crater, which a few of the oldtimers may recall was just before Victoria...

Edit - that frame was already in the PDS (but not the jpl jpeg site), so it must just be some pipeline thing. Still funny to see...

[mhoward]

Yeah, a blast from the past. Those images were trickling in so slowly today, it certainly seemed as if they were coming through the normal pipeline.

[Tesheiner]

Robot dreams maybe?

[djellison]

Edit - that frame was already in the PDS (but not the jpl jpeg site), so it must just be some pipeline thing. Still funny to see...

It's a Version 2 of the image, so maybe a backed up downlink or ground processing thing.

[walfy]

A micro from Sol 3194:

[Tesheiner]

Everyone, wakeup! Nobody noticed that two days ago Opportunity left the site she was investigating for the last couple of weeks?

Here's a navcam mosaic taken on sol 3203; we're already on sol 3205.

[mhoward]

Some of us noticed Oppy's now back at "Broken Hammer," previously visited sols 3098-3101.

Here's a view of drive north on sol 3203 (blue line) based on the metadata (vertical line is north):

[fredk]

And a further bump north on 3205:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...0M1.JPG?sol3205

[mhoward]

She basically just turned right and backed up a little bit on 3205. (Compare 3203 and 3205)

[fredk]

Further short drive on 3206:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...0M1.JPG?sol3206

[mhoward]

Interesting - the sol 3206 drive was westward back to "Flack Lake".

[walfy]

A micro from Sol 3200 that actually lines up to one side of the micro from Sol 3192. Might try to stitch them later.



There's some doubling up of features at the mid-seam, still learning some tricks to line things up better.

(Edit: The above image will line up with the one from Sol 3192 if it's rotated 180°. Sometimes I don't know which way is "up"! By the way, Photoshop refuses to auto-stitch these two latest micros with the ones from 3192. Would have to do it manually. )

[Bill Harris]

LPSC-44:

44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2013) sess252.pdf
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 [T252]
MARS EXPLORATION ROVER: RESULTS FROM ENDEAVOUR CRATER

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/pdf/sess252.pdf


--Bill

[fredk]

In Fig 2 of this abstract we finally can see the high-resolution CRISM view of the smectite signature on Matijevic Hill. It would be interesting to see that overlaid on a good quality map, but the background in that image is very low resolution so it would be hard to do.

[serpens]

Dear me. That smectite location is nothing like the numerous, previous CRISM overlays published in papers and articles. Previously I couldn't understand reference to Opportunity being 'in the sweet spot' - for instance:

http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-top...ck-on-2012.html

Does this mean that the previous indications of extensive smectite indications to the south are exaggerated and that the smectites are more localised?