Journey to Mt Sharp - Part 3A: In-situ science at the Kimberley, Sol 596 [Apr 10,'14] to 633 [May 18, '14] Options

[xflare]

I was reading something today regarding fossilised raindrops and this part of a sol601 image seemed to fit the bill.
What do the auspiscious members think?

Can you link to the original image please?

[jvandriel]

The Navcam NL B panoramic view on Sol 603.

Jan van Driel

[Phil Stooke]

Thanks, Jan, very nice. Here is a circular version. So this is the backup drill area according to Ken's blog, and the prime drill area is about 30 m further south or SW. Any names floating around?

Phil

[neo56]

Mosaic of MC100 pictures of Mount Remarkable. Rocks have very different shapes and textures.

[algorithm]

Can you link to the original image please?

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/ms...825E02_DXXX.jpg

[anticitizen2]

Here is the 603 drive animated - there are a bunch of segments, and it lasts just over a minute at 1 sec/frame

Here is a larger HTML5 version so you can fastforward and rewind - right click to show controls

Skygazing gif from the same day


Edit: Responding to Joe's post below - wow, I was way off in my head, thanks for that!

[jmknapp]

Some scale:

[jvandriel]

The complete Navcam L B view on Sol 603.

Jan van Driel

[jvandriel]

The Mastcam L view on Sol 603.

Jan van Driel

[Ant103]

Same panorama, bigger resolution here

[neo56]

Mosaic of MC100 pictures of Mount remarkable updated with pictures taken on sol 603:


Also available on Gigapan in higher resolution.

And my take on the MC34 panorama of sol 603:

[James Sorenson]

From the look of the Sol-605 Thumbnails of the APXS placement onto soil, looks like some soil may have been removed and possibly stuck to the contact plate. Hopefully this wasn't the case and further imaging is done. The thumbs bring back memory's of the Sol-258 incident on Spirit of when the Mossbauer Spectrometer was placed onto soil, soil stuck to the contact plate, and was inadvertently placed onto the capture magnets and it got stuck there.

[jvandriel]

Part of the left navcam panorama taken on Sol 603.

Jan van Driel

[wildespace]

More mysterious lights, Sol 603 Navcam Right.


Curiosity has been seeing quite a few of them lately.

Sol 589:


Sol 568:


All cosmic ray strikes?

ADMIN: Inline images replaced with thumbnails. All please note guideline 3.2

[nprev]

Yes, almost certainly all CR strikes or hot pixels via other mechanisms.

Do yourself a favor & please don't start pointing each & every one of these out. They've been happening since not only MSL but on every imager we've ever sent beyond the Earth's Van Allen Belts.