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 Aug 11 2011, 02:14 AM
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Thank you all again at UMSF for a memorable past couple of days...
-------------------- Ladies and Gentlemen, Sample Return...
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Aug 11 2011, 02:28 AM
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I'm still soaking it in....
When MSL reaches Gale, I think my head will catch fire. -------------------- Astrogeologists have stars in their eyes and rocks in their heads!
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Aug 11 2011, 02:28 AM
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Aug 11 2011, 02:29 AM
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QUOTE (Burmese @ Aug 10 2011, 07:50 PM)  That's my favorite rendering of the view so far. Thanks  It's a pleasure to contribute to this great forum.-------------------- Protein structures and Mars fun - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick960/
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Aug 11 2011, 02:39 AM
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NickF, in your panorama it looks very much like a dust cloud is traversing the bottom of the crater! Is this the first Martian haboob we've witnessed?
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Aug 11 2011, 03:19 AM
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QUOTE (mhoward @ Aug 10 2011, 06:28 PM) HOLY MOTHER OF GOD AWESOME -m |
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Aug 11 2011, 03:19 AM
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Re: NickF's pic -- If Endeavour crater is the size of the San Fernando Valley, California, I think I can spot the Ventura Freeway
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Aug 11 2011, 05:48 AM
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QUOTE (NickF @ Aug 10 2011, 07:17 PM) Here's my take on the sol 2681 L2 pancam images. I've combined L2/R2 imagery in a central frame to mask the missing data. Awesome! QUOTE (mhoward @ Aug 10 2011, 09:28 PM) Full right Navcam panorama for 2681-2682 Now that I have all of the oohs! and aaahh! out of my system, I can't wait to get to work, check out some MI's, and see what this place is really made of. There is some really fascinating geology waiting to be discovered here! 
-------------------- -- Robin
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Aug 11 2011, 06:26 AM
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I guess it is stating the obvious, but the bedrock here appears to be a planed off jumble of ejecta blocks.
-------------------- ...Tom (thinks he should use more emoticons)
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Aug 11 2011, 09:02 AM
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A set of L257 of Pathfinder Mound taken on sol 2671 was released on the Exploratorium today.
Attached thumbnail(s)
-------------------- Thomas Appéré Personal webpage Orbit-Mars
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Aug 11 2011, 09:27 AM
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A look back at "Gibraltar", Oppy's recent MI target...
(posted here to allow more direct comparison with Cape York rocks and features when we start getting colour images) -------------------- |
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Aug 11 2011, 10:07 AM
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QUOTE (mhoward @ Aug 11 2011, 04:28 AM) Full right Navcam panorama for 2681-2682 In polar form.
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Aug 11 2011, 11:45 AM
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QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Aug 11 2011, 12:26 AM) the bedrock here appears to be a planed off jumble of ejecta blocks. Hmmm, I'm not so sure, Tom. Here is a quick photo interpretation of a piece of Mike Howard's pan:
The unit the rover is on now seems like it could be a highly fractured eolian sandstone, maybe similar to the lower part of the Burns formation seen at Victoria and Endurance. Some of the fractures are filled with bright-looking minerals. Also intriguing are the horizontal features on the slope and crater floor in the distance. Here is a key of my interpretations: red lines: large-scale trough cross bed foresets black arrows: apparent sediment transport direction yellow lines: mineralized sub-vertical fractures blue lines: receding shorelines?!?!?! -------------------- Tim Demko
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Aug 11 2011, 02:02 PM
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The nature of the contact between the sulfate sediments and Cape York is going to be a fascinating puzzle in field geology, which is probably solvable eventually, given the combination of Oppy's ground truth and the HiRISE and CRISM context. The contact certainly looks very peculiar. I'd like to have Oppy eventually inch its way across the contact, taking a downward-looking color pancam every six inches or something.
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Aug 11 2011, 02:15 PM
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Wow, I can't believe we're finally 'there' -- what a long strange trip it's been.
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