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Cape York, Landfall!
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post Aug 10 2011, 08:31 AM
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Wow. Dare I say this is the most impressive vista Opportunity's eyes ever saw during the mission?


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post Aug 10 2011, 08:43 AM
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Absolutely fantastic !!! The landscape is gorgeous. It's really like a whole new mission.
I'm very excited by these bright lines of minerals in front of Oppy. Can't wait to know what it is.
And let's go to sniff the phyllos !!!
Again, congrats to all the MER team !


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post Aug 10 2011, 08:46 AM
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I agree, this is (yet another) landing day! And there are only 2 places to be: JPL and/or here on UMSF.
Thanks to MER team and to UMSF team.


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post Aug 10 2011, 08:49 AM
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Just one more for tonight:

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Extraordinary. It's like looking down at a shore of a great lake.

Congrats to all the engineers, scientists, rover drivers, everyone who had a hand in this!
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post Aug 10 2011, 09:18 AM
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It looks so different at ground level, as we finally left the pavement we've been on for so long. Just look at those little tilted strata poking through at different angles, and the white "veins" already commented on.

And Cape York had almost no topography at all... we just drove right over it! The tone differences in the orbital photos we were speculating on gave a false impression of relief that did not exist. Quite a lesson in photo-interpretation.

Phil, I think you will still be impressed by the veiw of CY from the south, but not quite in the vertical way you thought?!

Anyway, I must also add my congratulations to the MER team on arrival. It made the BBC radio news in the UK. This place is like a whole new world...
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post Aug 10 2011, 09:42 AM
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The perfect new mission--fantastic views plus fantastic science targets--together at Spirit point. Well done MER team!!!!


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post Aug 10 2011, 09:56 AM
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Even in the navcam view we don't see anything from Spirit Point. But I think they will make a photograph from it, later.


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post Aug 10 2011, 10:17 AM
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I suspect they will want to pull up just a bit closer, to where they can sniff at some of that material, while at the same time take one of those superpans to give themselves a big layout from which to plan the overall scientific program.
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post Aug 10 2011, 10:27 AM
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Here is the anaglyph of the sol 2681 Pancam view. The perspective is really impressive !
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post Aug 10 2011, 10:38 AM
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fun-fun-fun smile.gif

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post Aug 10 2011, 10:44 AM
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Here we go

wOW

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...G3P0653R0M1.JPG

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...G3P2385L2M1.JPG
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post Aug 10 2011, 12:04 PM
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QUOTE (Sunspot @ Aug 10 2011, 08:54 AM) *
Interesting feature...there is a thin line of very bright material in this navcam view, bottom left

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...G3P0653L0M1.JPG

Looking at this bedrock reminds me of sedimentary rock here in my backyard..the way they are stacked makes them remarkably similar to what I see on my sedimentary island in the med.....planet earth and i'm no geologist!!
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post Aug 10 2011, 12:07 PM
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Just amazing !





Astro0, with an extended sky it gave us an other dimension smile.gif.


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post Aug 10 2011, 12:21 PM
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I just wonder what that white streak represents??
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post Aug 10 2011, 12:22 PM
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Magnificent.... new mission on new terrain!

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