Heading south from Cape York, Opportunity's post-conjunction adventures / Sol 3291 - 3387 |
Heading south from Cape York, Opportunity's post-conjunction adventures / Sol 3291 - 3387 |
Jul 23 2013, 11:38 PM
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#376
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1043 Joined: 17-February 09 Member No.: 4605 |
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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Jul 24 2013, 04:15 AM
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#377
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4245 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
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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Jul 24 2013, 07:15 AM
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#378
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
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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Jul 24 2013, 07:38 AM
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#379
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
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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Jul 25 2013, 04:03 AM
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#380
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4245 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Deimos in transit:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...8M1.JPG?sol3376 Edit: Animation sped up 100x: And in realtime, 1 frame per 10 seconds: |
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Jul 26 2013, 03:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4245 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
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: QUOTE 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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Jul 26 2013, 06:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
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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Jul 26 2013, 10:36 PM
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#383
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Jul 29 2013, 04:41 PM
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Jul 30 2013, 11:06 PM
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#385
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Jul 31 2013, 03:23 PM
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#386
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 30 Joined: 6-September 12 From: Denver Member No.: 6641 |
That's pretty ugly.
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Jul 31 2013, 04:38 PM
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#387
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10122 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Yeah, I think he was in The Hobbit. Not as a hobbit.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 1 2013, 02:34 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2073 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
I see a troll myself. Rather appropriate, given that its in sunlight and made of rock....
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Aug 1 2013, 04:31 PM
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Aug 2 2013, 03:26 PM
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