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Matijevic Hill first survey, Sol 3057 - 3152
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post Sep 3 2012, 03:40 PM
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Everyone off the bus. I think we could be here a while.

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post Sep 3 2012, 06:23 PM
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Nice site. Here's the 5x1 navcam mosaic and the respective polar view.
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post 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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post 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!
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post 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.

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post Sep 3 2012, 11:03 PM
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Yes, the sections on the left (South?) look a lot less foreboding.
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post 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.


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post 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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post 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?

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post 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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post 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! wink.gif
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post Sep 4 2012, 12:16 PM
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Here's a closeup of the outcrop.
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post Sep 4 2012, 12:36 PM
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I wonder how much the mission geologists are drooling, looking at these rocks..?

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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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post 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 ! ohmy.gif
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post 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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