Cape York - Northern Havens, Sol 2780 - 2947 Options

[Bill Harris]

... and raise you a hyper-contrasted L2-3-4-5-6-7

I'll fold. Too rich for my blood.

Your second rendering, OTOH, is likely contrary to Family Friendly Forum rules and probably a couple of international agreements...


On Sol-2806 Oppy looked droolingly to the south at Shoemaker Ridge showing tantalizing stratigraphy...


--Bill

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[mhoward]

A couple L257R21 anaglyphs

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[ElkGroveDan]

Best I can do...

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I knew that looked familiar.

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[Stu]

Fantastic anaglyphs, especially that first one. I tried for *yonks* to get those L & Rs to align. You nailed it.

[mhoward]

Thanks, Stu. Here's the full left and right if anybody wants:

[walfy]

Took mhoward's excellent L & R images to make this "super gif," using Start3D website:



Had to compress the gif a lot to keep within file-size limitation, lost some color. But original can be viewed here: http://www.start3d.com/en/2454477057/0003

[Bill Harris]

I've been doing a literature search on "impactites" and "impact breccias", since this is clearly what we are looking at on Cape York. There are extensive resources at the LPI:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/search/?cx=0028034...amp;q=impactite

And one of the top listings of that search is a .PDF of a book chapter that contains many photos and discussions that are apropos to what we see at Boesmanskop, Oshoek and indeed the entire Winterhaven area.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/books...54/chapter5.pdf

It's sorta like deja-vu all over again...

--Bill

[Stu]

Following a succesful trial run at Homestake, looks like the new driving guidelines have been implemented.

1) Identify interesting feature
2) Take photographs
3) Drive RIGHT over it.

[Bill Harris]

"Todays downlinks will be interesting i guess. "

[Matt Lenda]

Following a succesful trial run at Homestake, looks like the new driving guidelines have been implemented.

1) Identify interesting feature
2) Take photographs
3) Drive RIGHT over it.

Ha.

Actually I'm not sure we intended to bump so little and go almost nowhere. I didn't stick my fat head into the room on Friday or today, so I have no idea...

-m

[Bill Harris]

My take would be that she's repositioning to do an IDD on the matrix material on the other side of the large ejecta chunk.

More "hope" than take...

--Bill

[Matt Lenda]

We're planning to bump slowly along the ridge -- there are a slew of features all along there. Currently we're doing some engineering diagnostics while we've got the time. Holidays give us lots of time to do these things.

-m

[Bill Harris]

Good thinking. I think we'll see a _lot_ of variability in the rocks as Oppy moves along the ridgetop, differences laterally within the same time horizon. A refreshing change from the Meridiani uplands where the rocks were consistent to the point of "boringly so". Time was when I'd get excited over a weathering crust of an odd color.

I'm curious about the dark rocks on the other side of the ridge from where we are now, as seen in HiRISE imagery. May be nothing, but I'm hoping that Oppy'll tippy-toe to the edge for a peek...

--Bill

[mhoward]

Pancam foreground stereo pair from sol 2810. I'm posting these in a slightly different format since Emily's my3D blog article has reminded me that the "3D PictOMatic" app exists. I've kind of been hinting at this previously, but if you're into MER images and you've already got an iPhone or iPod Touch, especially one of the nice ones with the high-resolution screens from the last year or two, you should probably just get a my3D already.

[PDP8E]

On Sol 2811, pictures were taken of Oppy's high gain antenna assembly (for some reason ... )
And also an image of a nearby rock off the port-side back-deck.
All the pictures were taken around local noon.
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