Matijevic Hill first survey, Sol 3057 - 3152 |
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 Sep 3 2012, 03:40 PM
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 The Poet Dude  Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60  |
Everyone off the bus. I think we could be here a while.
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Sep 3 2012, 06:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4168 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Nice site. Here's the 5x1 navcam mosaic and the respective polar view.
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Sep 3 2012, 07:45 PM
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Very nice images. Are these rubble piles likely to be impact-related?
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Sep 3 2012, 08:34 PM
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I still see those overhangs as being astonishingly unstable, even in the lower gravity. Watch yourself Oppy!
-------------------- To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre. -Giordano Bruno, 1584.
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Sep 3 2012, 10:19 PM
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QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Sep 3 2012, 01:34 PM)  I still see those overhangs as being astonishingly unstable, even in the lower gravity. Watch yourself Oppy! One nice thing about 6-wheel driving is that even if one gives way the others pick up the slack. Now if you are talking about IDD, that is a completely different thing. We definitely cannot have one of the wheels on unstable ground while IDD'ing or place the IDD on an unstable rock. Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Sep 3 2012, 11:03 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 618 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Vancouver, British Columbia Member No.: 5221 |
Yes, the sections on the left (South?) look a lot less foreboding.
-------------------- To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre. -Giordano Bruno, 1584.
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Sep 4 2012, 04:20 AM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Sep 3 2012, 09:40 AM) Everyone off the bus. I think we could be here a while. That, is one strange looking outcrop. -------------------- ...Tom (thinks he should use more emoticons)
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Sep 4 2012, 05:24 AM
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QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Sep 3 2012, 01:34 PM) I still see those overhangs as being astonishingly unstable, even in the lower gravity. Watch yourself Oppy! This outcrop looks about the same size/height as the great wall of Eagle Crater some 8.5 years ago. Nothing the team can't handle. |
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Sep 4 2012, 05:25 AM
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I showed the latest image of this outcrop to my roommate, who pointed out its resemblance to a large pile of, er, thoat droppings.
My hope is that this is the edge of an upturned flap of rock strata that was violently flipped during the impact that formed Endeavour. It looks like the edge of a strata that dips in towards the center of Endeavour, though that's hard to tell with any certainty from this angle. Anyone think this resembles the Woolly Patch that Spirit studied, which is suspected to have been a small clay outcrop? -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Sep 4 2012, 05:53 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 4 2012, 12:24 AM) Wow - someone wasn't around for Sol 1. This outcrop looks about the same size/height as the great wall of Eagle Crater some 8.5 years ago. Nothing the team can't handle. Back in the day, young Opportunity was expected to walk to school through thigh-deep snow drifts, uphill both ways. |
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Sep 4 2012, 06:27 AM
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Sorry, I should have been more clear in my post; I was wondering how stable the overhang is if Oppy uses the IDD as Paolo said (we don't know how well attached it is to the surface or what the wind has been doing to it).
I'm know it's nothing that can't be dealt with and I certainly do remember Eagle Crater! 
-------------------- To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre. -Giordano Bruno, 1584.
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Sep 4 2012, 12:16 PM
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Here's a closeup of the outcrop.
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Sep 4 2012, 12:36 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
I wonder how much the mission geologists are drooling, looking at these rocks..?
Edit: worked on that a bit more and got rid of that greeny colour... much better here: http://roadtoendeavour.files.wordpress.com...titled-1bv2.jpg -------------------- |
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Sep 4 2012, 12:50 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Sep 4 2012, 02:36 PM) I wonder how much the mission geologists are drooling, looking at these rocks..? Thanks Stu, for this very nice image. Visually speaking only (no geology), they look like dry clays (very dry and much eroded)... I'm drooling too ! 
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Sep 4 2012, 01:18 PM
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If those are hematite blueberries studding the rocks, then they would be the same ol' Meridiani layers, not pre-impact material. IMHO
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