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I agree, Fred. Hope you all like the view of this martian "Big Country", this great wide open plain, because This Is It for a long time now. Oppy is on the corner of "No" and "Where", and the next non-ripply thing we see will be Santa Maria, which is still about 1.5km away...
( You'll all be crying out for some meteorites to look at soon, just for a change of scenery, haha!  )
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Nov 6 2010, 03:47 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
"Waypoint Crater" compared to Santa Maria...
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Nov 6 2010, 08:11 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
A "new" view of Santa Maria, made from HiRISE image http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_013954_1780
This is, I think, the angle we'll be approaching it from (from the bottom of the pic, driving up to the crater, I mean). Boy, there's some interesting stuff in there, isn't there? -------------------- |
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Nov 6 2010, 08:43 PM
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Sol 2412, 90 degree field of view
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Nov 7 2010, 01:20 AM
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Thanks for the context images!
Man, I can't believe how blasé this little rover has become about craters... 
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Nov 7 2010, 12:19 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Don't think we'll tarry too long at this crater, so in advance of Oppy heading east I've made a pic of Santa Maria with some labels, which I hope we can use in our discussions as we look forward to Oppy's arrival at that fascinating-looking crater. No names, just labels for features.
http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2010/...-at-santa-maria And, as always, just for fun - not claiming 100000% scientific accuracy - here's a pic showing Endurance (top), Santa Maria (middle) and Victoria roughly to scale...
... and finally, a "zoom out" series of images I've wanted to make for ages... http://roadtoendeavour.files.wordpress.com...11/zoom-out.jpg
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Nov 9 2010, 06:18 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Looks like we have a proper name for "Waypoint crater"...
"Nearly 100m over the weekend. Today, the last 50m to Intrepid Crater, so we can image it. After that, I think we're Santa Maria-bound." (Tweeted by Scott Maxwell) -------------------- |
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Nov 9 2010, 08:44 PM
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Hello Intrepid:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...0M1.JPG?sol2415 |
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Nov 9 2010, 08:56 PM
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I'm not bored seeing yet another crater. I'm really looking forward getting to Santa Maria, hopefully before... Santa Claus!
We're "only" miss another 15 "100m's drives". -------------------- |
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Nov 9 2010, 09:04 PM
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Off topic posts moved to the Kitchen Junk Drawer thread.
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=6771 |
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Nov 9 2010, 09:24 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
Sol 2415
100 degree FOV:  60 degree FOV: 
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Nov 9 2010, 09:28 PM
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Intrepid in anaglyph form
-------------------- Protein structures and Mars fun - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick960/
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Nov 9 2010, 11:15 PM
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Intrepid looks really shallow.
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Nov 10 2010, 06:13 AM
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Always strikes me how often these small craters in Meridiani don't look like craters to me from Oppy's viewpoint. They often look like very conventional small eroded depressions & associated knolls that I wouldn't notice twice in many places on Earth.
One wonders. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Nov 10 2010, 07:50 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Some historical background to Intrepid crater...
http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2010/...-martian-crater -------------------- |
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