Opportunity Route Map |
  |
Opportunity Route Map |
 Mar 8 2005, 08:34 AM
Post
#121
|
||
 The Insider  Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73  |
Updated travel map:
Attached thumbnail(s)
|
|
 |
 
|
|
|
Mar 8 2005, 09:30 AM
Post
#122
|
|
 Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107 |
As I expected Vostok would be nothing extraordinary. Just a cirkle of outcrop like the scattered rocks on the plains
 A quick RAT and analysis of one or two rocks and we are go for the etched terrain 
-------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
- Steven Squyres |
|
|
|
| Guest_Sunspot_* |
Mar 8 2005, 12:49 PM
Post
#123
|
|
Guests |
Well....I was wrong. It's not dust making up the rim after all
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 8 2005, 06:14 PM
Post
#124
|
|
 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
QUOTE (dot.dk @ Mar 8 2005, 01:30 AM) As I expected Vostok would be nothing extraordinary. Just a cirkle of outcrop like the scattered rocks on the plains A quick RAT and analysis of one or two rocks and we are go for the etched terrain Hmmm, I wonder just how different the etched terrain will be - mostly just exposed outcrop as well? Terraced a bit? Should be a nice change of scenery at the very least.... The effect looks similiar to Vostok's edges from the obital pix; is there any info on its slope and steepness? I couldn't find any MOLA data through googling.... -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
|
|
|
|
Mar 8 2005, 10:46 PM
Post
#125
|
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 5-May 04 Member No.: 74 |
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 9 2005, 03:02 AM
Post
#126
|
|
 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 3 2005, 05:18 AM) imho - it's a very very erroded crater, much more so than eagle/fram etc - i.e. pre hydrological activity - it'll just be exactly what it appears on the orbital images - a ring of exposed rock perhaps a few CM above the surrounding area with no inner 'dip' or dunes Doug You pretty much called it, Doug. 
-------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
|
|
|
|
Mar 9 2005, 08:07 AM
Post
#127
|
|
 Member Group: Members Posts: 710 Joined: 28-September 04 Member No.: 99 |
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 9 2005, 10:04 AM
Post
#128
|
|
 Member Group: Members Posts: 255 Joined: 4-January 05 Member No.: 135 |
Fascinating. Can anyone explain why the rock remains exposed, and isn't covered with sand/blueberries?
Chris |
|
|
|
|
Mar 9 2005, 10:14 AM
Post
#129
|
|
|
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Mar 9 2005, 03:02 AM) QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 3 2005, 05:18 AM) imho - it's a very very erroded crater, much more so than eagle/fram etc - i.e. pre hydrological activity - it'll just be exactly what it appears on the orbital images - a ring of exposed rock perhaps a few CM above the surrounding area with no inner 'dip' or dunes Doug You pretty much called it, Doug. I think that deserves a mars bar Doug |
|
|
|
|
Mar 9 2005, 11:34 AM
Post
#130
|
|
|
Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Looks like another crater in the distance, could it be the larger flatter one before Victoria or Victoria herself, or looking at it more something entirely different lol. ?
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P1785L0M1.JPG 
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 9 2005, 12:08 PM
Post
#131
|
|
 Member Group: Members Posts: 524 Joined: 24-November 04 From: Heraklion, GR. Member No.: 112 |
These Vostok outcrops look pachydermally eroded (JonClarke's termonology
 ) just like Wopmay inside Endurance. Since we missed a detailed spectrometer analysis of Wopmay due to heavy slippage, let's have one quicky here, and head straight to the Etched Terrain southwest 
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 9 2005, 12:19 PM
Post
#132
|
|
|
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (MahFL @ Mar 9 2005, 11:34 AM) Looks like another crater in the distance, could it be the larger flatter one before Victoria or Victoria herself, or looking at it more something entirely different lol. ? http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P1785L0M1.JPG That's looking WSW I think - and if you look on this image http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/0...Ellipse_25m.gif ( Endurance is along the centre line - 3/4s the way to the east end ) You can see a crater twice the size of Victoria just outside the ellipse near the centre - it's probably the rim of that we're seing way out there Doug |
|
|
|
|
Mar 9 2005, 12:50 PM
Post
#133
|
|
|
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Vostok Nav
http://mer.rlproject.com/vostok_nav.jpg If Mars ever has hippies - they'll be dancing round it naked before too long Doug |
|
|
|
|
Mar 9 2005, 12:57 PM
Post
#134
|
|
|
Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
When the rovers landed I don't think we thought for 1 min that they would travel outside of thier landing elipses. Is the well defined crater north of Victoria in the elipse Endurance crater ?
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 9 2005, 01:04 PM
Post
#135
|
|
|
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (MahFL @ Mar 9 2005, 12:57 PM) When the rovers landed I don't think we thought for 1 min that they would travel outside of thier landing elipses. Is the well defined crater north of Victoria in the elipse Endurance crater ? Yup - when that map was made - they didnt have MOC imagery of Endurance - and so you can see it as a low-res bit just to the right of a high res MOC bit That image also shows how the 'etched' got eaten by Victoria Doug |
|
|
|
|
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 18th April 2024 - 11:50 AM |
|
RULES AND GUIDELINES Please read the Forum Rules and Guidelines before posting. IMAGE COPYRIGHT |
OPINIONS AND MODERATION Opinions expressed on UnmannedSpaceflight.com are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of UnmannedSpaceflight.com or The Planetary Society. The all-volunteer UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderation team is wholly independent of The Planetary Society. The Planetary Society has no influence over decisions made by the UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderators. |
SUPPORT THE FORUM Unmannedspaceflight.com is funded by the Planetary Society. Please consider supporting our work and many other projects by donating to the Society or becoming a member. |
|
