Distant vistas, Endeavour, Iazu, and beyond Options

[ngunn]

It does, however, make all the difference for the identification of the 'Mule Ears', so thanks for the update Tman. I'm now back where I started on that, along with James. Eagerly awaiting his graphic.

[Tman]

Ok, upright "mule ears" look definitely better

Southward view on sol 2184 (R1/2x^):

[ngunn]

Yeah, they're about 194 and 195 there, which I think fits the Miyamoto rim peaks.

Agreed. It's a flop-eared mule.

[Stu]

To be honest, I couldn't be more lost if I was dumped blindfolded into a blackboard factory with all the lights turned off...

[JohnVV]

fun -true color ( for the day)
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[fredk]

Here's a crude Canvin-style inverse polar, showing just the twin craters, for sol 2184. (Area is so small that no special projection is needed here.) Pancam azimuths from Tman. The twins are subtending a pretty large angle already, around 7.5 degrees, although we're not seeing much yet. Presumably the rims are not raised. The one bump we can see seems to line up most closely with the central ridge, although I thought the dune on the far right side of the twins looked like the highest point. All will be revealed soon enough...

[Phil Stooke]

"It's a flop-eared mule."


Mule? It's my pointy-haired boss appearing over the horizon to find out why I've accomplished nothing all week.

Phil

[helvick]

Accomplished nothing all week? CBC, Slashdot, Fark, The Register and a bunch more beg to differ. Richard Garriott owes you for finding his rover - ask him to tell your boss to give you a break,

[fredk]

since our view of the 'Mule Ears' is more or less unchanging it should be possible to get a clearer picture of them by stacking all the images we get while we're on this heading.

In principle that would work. The problem is that the Ears are so faint and indistinct that you'd have a hard time aligning them precisely. The result would probably be pretty blurred. Maybe we could try after the raws are publicly available.

[Tman]

In today's Expl. update there're R2 filtered images of the drive direction. The twin craters location got quite a new look.



Additionally I plunged into full resolution and come up with a slightly shifted position for the craters. But as Fred said, all will be revealed soon enough.


This post has been edited by Tman: Mar 19 2010, 04:20 PM

[jamescanvin]

OK I ended up shifting my identifications slightly from my last post on Bopolu (getting a better fit in the process I think) and then get a nice alignment with the highest peaks on the SE-Miyamoto rim according to GM.




James

[ngunn]

Fantastic work James. In anticipation I did some very rough calculations on those peaks. I think the visible 'Mule Ears' represent the top 100m or so of those mountains at a distance of approximately 80 km. Below that I estimate there is about 900m out of sight beyond the curvature of Mars. We only just see them, both geometrically and atmospherically. Nice.

[Stu]

Lots of new images today... has Oppy been having a clear-out? Cobbled together this - I'm sure others will do better, I just liked the (vague) details visible on the hills...

[fredk]

Lots of new images today

Most of them were old images, with the unusual suffix M7, identical to the corresponding M1's we've already got down. I don't know what that was about.

[Stu]

You mean we'd seen them before, or they were taken sols ago, cos that's what I was meaning.