Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York

Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point'

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ElkGroveDan

Feb 8 2011, 03:35 PM

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Starting a new topic to include Eduardo's Google overlay for the rest of the journey to Cape York:

http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/gmars_ma...41_1775_RED.kml

Follow the link above and it should load right in to your Google Mars features.

I took a low crow's flight along the final 6km this morning. Below in green is what I think the final route will look like. Also an interesting feature along the way that appears to be a cluster of rocks, possibly Santa Maria ejecta, or large meteorite fragments. Note how the dune has evolved around the three (or more) objects. Object is at -2.199395°, -5.396676° -- roughly 3km down range from Santa Maria.

EDIT: bad link replaced, wider context image added for three rocks.

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ElkGroveDan Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York Feb 8 2011, 03:35 PM

nprev That interview just plain rocked. I don't real... Apr 15 2011, 01:13 AM

eoincampbell Loved reading that interview Stu - like getting a ... Apr 15 2011, 05:02 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (Stu @ Apr 14 2011, 02:15 PM) ... w... Apr 15 2011, 06:48 AM

jvandriel The Navcam R0 view on Sol 2563. Jan van Driel Apr 15 2011, 09:58 AM

Phil Stooke Polar version of jvandriel's latest panorama. ... Apr 15 2011, 11:46 AM

brellis Nice Jan van Pan <-- couldn't resist, afte... Apr 15 2011, 03:49 PM

Stu Don't know about height, but as far as a direc... Apr 15 2011, 05:40 PM

PaulM I do not think that Scott was talking about Cape Y... Apr 15 2011, 07:00 PM

Phil Stooke We now have better CRISM data than that paper used... Apr 15 2011, 08:12 PM

Stu Hmmm. Interesting how our view of Tribulation etc ... Apr 15 2011, 10:19 PM

Stu If Oppy does go climbing in those hills to the sou... Apr 16 2011, 11:38 AM

Stu Latest view of the western hills... Apr 17 2011, 10:11 AM

Tesheiner We can almost touch them! Apr 17 2011, 10:19 AM

Stu QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Apr 17 2011, 11:19 AM)... Apr 17 2011, 10:37 AM

jvandriel A special Pan for Brellis The pancam view on ... Apr 17 2011, 03:23 PM

ngunn The shortish bright line in the middle distance - ... Apr 17 2011, 06:31 PM

Tesheiner That crater is still too far away to be visible on... Apr 17 2011, 11:09 PM

Stu That crater's a good 740m ahead yet, Nigel. Apr 17 2011, 11:22 PM

Phil Stooke Here's a match to the local topography. That ... Apr 17 2011, 11:39 PM

Tesheiner Definitely Phil-o-vision is the right tool for thi... Apr 18 2011, 10:06 AM

ngunn Thank goodness not all craters are hiding in hollo... Apr 18 2011, 01:12 PM

Stu Well spotted Nigel! Apr 18 2011, 01:42 PM

Sunspot Very quiet in here lately. Apr 21 2011, 09:50 AM

Tesheiner Like sailing on a quiet and waveless sea. Here... Apr 21 2011, 10:19 AM

Phil Stooke Quiet around here today, so I thought I'd bett... Apr 22 2011, 03:02 AM

Tesheiner Quiet here, indeed, but actually not on Mars. Yes... Apr 22 2011, 10:28 AM

Phil Stooke Sol 2574 images: Phil Apr 22 2011, 11:41 AM

remcook broooommmm Apr 22 2011, 12:34 PM

jvandriel The Pancam L2 view on Sol 2572. Jan van Driel Apr 22 2011, 01:16 PM

marswiggle Might be a possible dust devil at the extreme left... Apr 22 2011, 08:28 PM

fredk I spotted that one as well, thinking it looked lik... Apr 22 2011, 08:42 PM

Stu "Double Crater" up ahead... Size comp... Apr 22 2011, 09:21 PM

ElkGroveDan Crater? What crater? I don't see a crater, or... Apr 23 2011, 12:05 AM

nprev Neat! But, yeah...we gotta keep going. Distant... Apr 23 2011, 01:56 AM

Stu Well, we appear to be heading right for it, so I... Apr 23 2011, 04:44 AM

Stu ...as for the meteorites, I'm no expert but lo... Apr 23 2011, 04:48 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (nprev @ Apr 22 2011, 07:56 PM) ...... Apr 24 2011, 05:07 AM

nprev Ah. Thanks, Tom! (I really should get off my s... Apr 24 2011, 06:57 AM

CosmicRocker Oh heck, Nick; none of us can keep up with everyth... Apr 24 2011, 05:02 PM

fredk Tribulation registered and averaged over four L2/R... Apr 25 2011, 05:10 PM

fredk The latest Oppy map update includes a route to Cap... Apr 26 2011, 03:33 AM

centsworth_II QUOTE (fredk @ Apr 25 2011, 10:33 PM) ...... Apr 26 2011, 07:49 AM

eoincampbell Oh, Great to hear of the insights to the journey l... Apr 26 2011, 05:20 AM

centsworth_II Actually, near the end of the January 31, 2010 Ma... Apr 26 2011, 09:17 AM

ElkGroveDan I've been waiting for someone to comment on th... Apr 26 2011, 01:25 PM

mhoward QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Apr 26 2011, 06:25 A... Apr 26 2011, 02:07 PM

ElkGroveDan I suspect THIS is Young Blocky. Apr 26 2011, 01:43 PM

Tesheiner QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Apr 26 2011, 03:43 P... Apr 26 2011, 05:49 PM

Phil Stooke Agreed - EGD, check out the posts around #130 in t... Apr 26 2011, 02:10 PM

ElkGroveDan It makes wonder if these aren't the remnants o... Apr 26 2011, 02:20 PM

Poolio Wouldn't you expect to see more alignment and ... Apr 26 2011, 02:53 PM

marsophile Looks to me like the trenches we have already seen... Apr 26 2011, 03:19 PM

Stu QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Apr 26 2011, 02:43 P... Apr 26 2011, 03:30 PM

Stu Very quick Best Guesstimate Rough Guide to the maj... Apr 26 2011, 04:18 PM

ngunn I think 'Young Blocky' could even be the r... Apr 26 2011, 06:13 PM

Stu "Unalaska", from Sol 2553... ...and t... Apr 26 2011, 08:51 PM

ElkGroveDan Because the higher ups vetoed the name "Deadl... Apr 26 2011, 09:01 PM

brellis lol, I work on that show Apr 26 2011, 10:17 PM

nprev Good name, if you've ever seen the Aleutians..... Apr 26 2011, 10:29 PM

Stu RtE blog post now up, with lotsa pics: http://road... Apr 26 2011, 10:48 PM

fredk It looks like we caught a gust/DD on the horizon o... Apr 27 2011, 03:18 PM

algorimancer I'm a bit puzzled by the apparent plan to init... Apr 27 2011, 04:26 PM

ElkGroveDan QUOTE (algorimancer @ Apr 27 2011, 08:26 ... Apr 27 2011, 04:33 PM

centsworth_II Why does Spirit's Evidence of Phyllosilicate i... Apr 27 2011, 05:38 PM

jvandriel The L2 Pancamview on Sol 2579. Jan van Driel Apr 28 2011, 08:38 AM

Phil Stooke ... and with a 10x stretch of the above pan, there... Apr 28 2011, 02:20 PM

Stu QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Apr 26 2011, 02:25 P... Apr 28 2011, 03:42 PM

Stu Looks like a slight detour on the way to Double Cr... Apr 29 2011, 07:21 AM

Tesheiner Unfortunately I think that was not the case. I jus... Apr 29 2011, 09:15 AM

Stu QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Apr 29 2011, 10:15 AM)... Apr 29 2011, 10:38 AM

Tesheiner This month's MER Update by A.J.S. Rayl is onli... May 1 2011, 09:26 AM

fredk QUOTE (Tesheiner @ May 1 2011, 10:26 AM) ... May 1 2011, 04:40 PM

Stu Just been reading that too... another fantastic re... May 1 2011, 10:16 AM

Tesheiner I was just ready to post a GE snapshot with the ac... May 1 2011, 10:28 AM

Stu This was very interesting, I thought... The cours... May 1 2011, 12:56 PM

centsworth_II What confuses me is that the darker green that is ... May 1 2011, 04:13 PM

serpens QUOTE (centsworth_II @ May 1 2011, 04:13 ... May 2 2011, 03:08 AM

centsworth_II QUOTE (serpens @ May 1 2011, 10:08 PM) ..... May 2 2011, 09:12 AM

fredk QUOTE (Stu @ May 1 2011, 01:56 PM) ... May 1 2011, 06:01 PM

fredk There is newer CRISM data - see this post. Fig 3 ... May 1 2011, 04:36 PM

centsworth_II QUOTE (fredk @ May 1 2011, 11:36 AM) Ther... May 1 2011, 06:12 PM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (centsworth_II @ May 1 2011, 01:12 ... May 2 2011, 06:23 AM

centsworth_II QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ May 2 2011, 01:23 A... May 2 2011, 09:58 AM

elakdawalla QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ May 1 2011, 10:23 P... May 2 2011, 05:14 PM

Phil Stooke "That geologic map has been used in a number ... May 2 2011, 10:33 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ May 2 2011, 04:33 AM... May 3 2011, 04:24 AM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (elakdawalla @ May 2 2011, 11:14 AM... May 3 2011, 05:05 AM

peter59 Waiting for full resolution. May 3 2011, 07:25 AM

Stu That's really good work, Peter. Wider angle v... May 3 2011, 09:43 AM

Phil Stooke "Do you *know* that to be true?" The us... May 3 2011, 02:14 PM

Tesheiner This images pipeline is still somehow broken so we... May 4 2011, 10:35 AM

Burmese Long ago the MER team realized they needed to alte... May 4 2011, 07:38 PM

djellison The FR wheel starts drawing a lot more current if ... May 4 2011, 09:08 PM

Phil Stooke There are new pictures of Freedom 7 up at JPL, but... May 4 2011, 09:17 PM

walfy NASA's update, with good image of the new crat... May 4 2011, 09:21 PM

djellison And Squyres would have told you the rovers would b... May 4 2011, 10:58 PM

Stu I was absolutely sure there was no frakking way in... May 4 2011, 11:20 PM

brellis Question for the very talented and skilled folks s... May 4 2011, 11:57 PM

nprev Superior design inevitably results in superior per... May 5 2011, 12:08 AM

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