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Bill Harris
post Jan 20 2006, 02:30 PM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jan 20 2006, 05:38 AM)
It was already said that those structures seen on previous hazcam pics (well, in all sort of cameras and filters...) were delicate.

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But what about these ones? It looks like the smallest touch could broke them.

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Good idea. That topic was "tired" and had the cord showing. smile.gif biggrin.gif tongue.gif

Delicate, to be sure. One thing I've noticed is that the "ledge-forming" rocks are a layer and extend to the right and left of where we camped out. I wonder if that feature is related to the bluff at Mogollon Rim?

We need to check out the "mobile dust" at that site and see if there has been more movement during the stopover.
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Bill Harris
post Feb 20 2006, 12:20 PM
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They need to find a way to stow it and get moving again.


I can see the rationale for their current actions: the IDD may fail soon and become history, so they are trying to get most detailed information on the wonderful sedimentary structures while they can. But Jimminy Cricket, we've been at this site forever-and-a-day and we need to get to the next outcrop which might well be the Holy Grail of this region.


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...is the purpose of this mission to look for support for the hypothesis that there was once standing water on Mars, or is it to characterize the surface of Mars as well as possible?


I'd say that they are (or should be) studying the Geology to find evidence of water.

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post Feb 20 2006, 07:28 PM
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Unfortunately, we haven't found anything new with Opportunity in about a year. I can set up my geology shop at a random 2-foot exposure of layered rock near my house, study it ad nauseum for months and not really learn anything about the big picture of even the local area, let alone the whole planet. I probably won't be able to tell if there is water on the Earth, unless it rains while I am there. Are we trying to prove that if you look long enough at a single grain of sand, you can derive the whole structure of the universe?

There has to be a balance between moving on to new things and making sure you don't miss anything. If Lewis and Clarke were so focused on not missing any detail, they would have never got more than a few miles outside of St. Louis. They missed a lot of things. They knew that they had to miss them if they wanted to get the big picture.

By studying every single rock that appears interesting, you are thowing away the chance at finding great new things -- especially at this stage of the mission where the local area has already been characterized in detail.

The basic philosophy over the last 10 months has been a grave error -- a waste of 10 vital months on Mars.

The rovers have wheels for a reason. You are likely to increase the knowledge gained by orders of magnitude for every mile you drive.

In this type of exploration you must understand, acknowledge, and accept that you will miss some things. But on average, what you gain from looking at new things will vastly surpass what you miss.

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- Bill Harris   Going To Mogollon...   Jan 20 2006, 02:30 PM
- - lyford   Does it look like there was any piled deposition o...   Jan 20 2006, 05:28 PM
- - Bill Harris   Ed, it may very well be that sand has piled up n t...   Jan 20 2006, 07:03 PM
- - Tesheiner   An article at Space.com: http://www.space.com/mis...   Jan 21 2006, 06:10 PM
- - Sunspot   ..week or so?   Jan 21 2006, 07:40 PM
- - ilbasso   They didn't say which week.   Jan 22 2006, 05:16 AM
- - CosmicRocker   Well, that pretty much confirms that more MIs of t...   Jan 22 2006, 06:48 AM
- - Bill Harris   > I am really anxious to get to Mogollon, but i...   Jan 22 2006, 07:54 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Jan 22 2006, 07:54 AM)We...   Jan 22 2006, 03:20 PM
- - Bill Harris   Foo. --Bill   Jan 22 2006, 06:30 PM
- - alan   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jan 21 2006, 12:10 PM)An a...   Jan 29 2006, 08:54 PM
|- - Shaka   QUOTE (alan @ Jan 29 2006, 10:54 AM)Oppy leav...   Jan 29 2006, 09:26 PM
- - dot.dk   QUOTE (alan @ Jan 29 2006, 08:54 PM)Oppy leav...   Jan 29 2006, 09:42 PM
|- - Shaka   QUOTE (dot.dk @ Jan 29 2006, 11:42 AM)From: h...   Jan 30 2006, 01:27 AM
- - jvandriel   The last images are down and here is the 360 degre...   Jan 30 2006, 09:50 AM
- - slinted   Since this is the thread for "...and points s...   Jan 31 2006, 12:21 AM
|- - jamescanvin   QUOTE (slinted @ Jan 31 2006, 11:21 AM)Since ...   Jan 31 2006, 01:52 AM
- - Bill Harris   I have long commented jokingly that the "rout...   Jan 31 2006, 12:39 AM
- - SigurRosFan   No Mogollon Rim close-up's?? http://athena.co...   Jan 31 2006, 09:47 PM
|- - Toma B   QUOTE (SigurRosFan @ Feb 1 2006, 12:47 AM)No ...   Jan 31 2006, 09:57 PM
|- - Shaka   QUOTE (SigurRosFan @ Jan 31 2006, 11:47 AM)No...   Jan 31 2006, 09:59 PM
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|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (Nirgal @ Feb 2 2006, 01:53 AM)What I...   Feb 2 2006, 08:46 AM
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