Traverse to the Delta, sols 379-414, 15 Mar 2022- 21 Apr 2022 |
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Traverse to the Delta, sols 379-414, 15 Mar 2022- 21 Apr 2022 |
 Mar 16 2022, 12:02 AM
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Solar System Cartographer  Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227  |
Starting a new thread as we leave the landing site and start the drive around Seitah. It will probably be quite fast unless something interesting turns up in the ejecta of the craters along the path.
Here is a circular panorama for sol 379, already north of the landing site. Maybe there will be some drive-by shots of the landing site itself. Phil
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Mar 17 2022, 03:14 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Sol 380 - the JPL map has not been updated yet but this circular view shows we have moved 200 m or more into the smooth area northeast of the last position. Easy driving here. We could see a record-setting drive next time.
Phil
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Mar 17 2022, 06:25 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Still no map but the location is about here.
Phil
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Mar 17 2022, 08:18 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 282 Joined: 18-June 04 Member No.: 84 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 17 2022, 06:25 AM)  Still no map but the location is about here. Phil
Looks like perfect driving terrain. Might we get some record breaking drives? |
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Mar 17 2022, 06:10 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Maybe! But not today. There is a sol 381 panorama but it looks identical to the sol 380 view. Perhaps a drive failed and the end of drive imaging happened anyway.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Mar 18 2022, 08:48 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Sol 382, another nice drive east and a bit north.
Phil
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Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Mar 19 2022, 04:45 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 665 Joined: 9-May 21 From: Germany Member No.: 9017 |
Approaching the La Orovata crater on sol 383 with a drive of about 220 m.
Estimated rover position by comparing Navcam and HiRISE images: 77.4619°E 18.4537°N Green line: planned traverse
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Mar 19 2022, 05:32 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 228 Joined: 14-January 22 Member No.: 9140 |
I'm beginning to anticipate that April (more or less, depending on unpredictable opportunistic science stops and/or obstacles in the path) will be this amazing sequence of gradually improving imagery of the delta outcrops, with every few days leading to an incremental but noticeable improvement, a bit like the first approach of Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, etc. by Voyager or New Horizons. And maybe there'll be something remarkable in those images from ~150 meters away, or maybe it will just look like sedimentary layers with nothing out of the ordinary until the instruments get right onto the delta outcrops several months from now. We just don't know, but the potential is tantalizing.
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Mar 19 2022, 07:02 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2428 Joined: 30-January 13 From: Penang, Malaysia. Member No.: 6853 |
Thanks Tau...
Sol 383: 4-tile L-NavCam Looks like we may have just entered the 'Teide' map quadrangle 
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Mar 20 2022, 02:45 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Thanks, Paul. I used your image and the rest of the panorama to make my circular view for sol 383. The crater rim is obvious now.
Phil
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Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Mar 20 2022, 03:07 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
That puts us here...
Phil
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Mar 20 2022, 01:08 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
Sol 382 Navcam panoramic. Very lovely !
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Mar 20 2022, 03:48 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1084 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
QUOTE (Ant103 @ Mar 20 2022, 02:08 PM) Sol 382 Navcam panoramic. Very lovely ! What a nice sunset pan : the wheels tracks are impressive ! Thank you Damia
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Mar 20 2022, 07:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 665 Joined: 9-May 21 From: Germany Member No.: 9017 |
Sol 383 Mastcam-Z panorama part 1 (west) . . .
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Mar 20 2022, 07:03 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 665 Joined: 9-May 21 From: Germany Member No.: 9017 |
. . . and part 2 (northwest)
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