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Heading south from Cape York, Opportunity's post-conjunction adventures / Sol 3291 - 3387
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post Jul 23 2013, 11:38 PM
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Your right Phil. Unfortunately I guess that the limited time before the rover has to get to a slope along with observation priorities precluded more than a drive-by snapshot. The erosion pattern would seem to indicate a coarse to fine deposition cycle indicating energy variation. Wonder if these are similar to Cortez on the edge of CY which had what appeared to be a cyclical and sinusoidal deposition pattern of thin bundled laminations interspaced with thick deposition from high energy events. On Earth that is evident in tidal bundles but on Mars?
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post Jul 24 2013, 04:15 AM
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Another move on 3376, but this one's easy to locate since it looks like a very short drive, maybe to take a quick peek at a rock?
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...0M1.JPG?sol3376
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post Jul 24 2013, 07:15 AM
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We've definitely been observing some changes in the layering characteristics of some rocks in the Burns formation. I really hope they find time to do some investigation of a few rocks down here on the plains. I think I am still seeing a lot of aeolian forms since Cape York, but there seem to be small areas where the rocks appear differently.


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post Jul 24 2013, 07:38 AM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Jul 24 2013, 06:15 AM) *
Another move on 3376, but this one's easy to locate since it looks like a very short drive, maybe to take a quick peek at a rock?
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...0M1.JPG?sol3376

Yep. Here's the rock as seen on a FHAZ taken from the previous site.
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post Jul 25 2013, 04:03 AM
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Deimos in transit:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...8M1.JPG?sol3376

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Animation sped up 100x:
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And in realtime, 1 frame per 10 seconds:
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post Jul 26 2013, 03:40 PM
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Some good details in Crumpler's latest blog post

More details about what interested them in the current location, and plans for the approach to Solander:
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on Friday, July 26 we will probably be on our way to the northeast edge of Solander point. There... we will sidle up to the contact between the mountain and the plains on the east side and move northwest to the very northern tip of Solander Point. There we will climb up onto the bench that characteristically outlines the base of the mountain. All sorts of geologically strange things appear to be converging there, so we will hopefully have time to hammer out the geology before beginning the Long Climb.
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post Jul 26 2013, 06:03 PM
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I wasn't aware of that blog! Bookmarked.

When he speaks about Friday's (i.e. today's) plans I presume he's actually talking about sequences planning. I would expect the drive itself to be executed on saturday or sunday with images available sunday / monday. Let's wait and see.

BTW, we might be reaching the 38km mark on the next move.
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post Jul 26 2013, 10:36 PM
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Well that looks like isopachous cement? First real sign of plentiful water in the crater itself.
Edit: That is "Black Shoulder". Looks like the naming is continuing the Australian theme.
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post Jul 29 2013, 04:41 PM
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Quick L257 of "Tawny" on Sol 3353.
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post Jul 30 2013, 11:06 PM
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The latest "face on Mars"

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post Jul 31 2013, 03:23 PM
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That's pretty ugly.
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post Jul 31 2013, 04:38 PM
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Yeah, I think he was in The Hobbit. Not as a hobbit.

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post Aug 1 2013, 02:34 AM
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I see a troll myself. Rather appropriate, given that its in sunlight and made of rock....
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post Aug 1 2013, 04:31 PM
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My first attempt at an MI mosaic, using 4 images of the RAT area from Sol 3382. Not perfect, but neither was the original lighting.
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post Aug 2 2013, 03:26 PM
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Nice mosaic!

We had a good drive on 3385, and we are approximately here now:

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