Crossing the Dunes at Murray Buttes, Sites 54-62, Sols 1353-1659, May 28 2016-Apr 6 2017 |
Crossing the Dunes at Murray Buttes, Sites 54-62, Sols 1353-1659, May 28 2016-Apr 6 2017 |
Jan 13 2017, 10:17 PM
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Jan 14 2017, 03:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2823 Joined: 22-April 05 From: Ridderkerk, Netherlands Member No.: 353 |
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Jan 14 2017, 05:50 PM
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Great meteorite image from sol 1577 [attachment=40659:1577MR00...E01_DXXX.jpg] You wait around god knows how long and the first thing you meet shoots you. Three times!!! That just doest look like a meteorite to me...it looks manufactured. What are the chances it's a piece of curiosities upper stage from years back |
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Jan 14 2017, 06:18 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10157 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Looks natural to me. The cruise stage impacted 80 km to the west:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/mult...a/pia16456.html But the ChemCam spectra will reveal the composition and let us be sure. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 14 2017, 06:32 PM
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Yes, the closest artificial parts to where we are now are the skycrane remnants (which flew west), heat shield/back shell, and the tungsten counterweights, which impacted far north of here (and would be probably a different shape entirely). This an unrelated arrival from space
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Jan 14 2017, 10:29 PM
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There is no indication of surface trauma around the object. This implies that it impacted at a higher surface level in the distant past.
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Jan 15 2017, 01:09 AM
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There is no indication of surface trauma around the object. This implies that it impacted at a higher surface level in the distant past. Hmm, I hope somebody is keeping track of hematite spheres and meteorites, so that there's an eventual estimate for how many feet of rock eroded to leave them as lag deposits.... |
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Jan 15 2017, 02:38 PM
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That estimate would come from the geometry of layering and the current topography.
Here is a circular view of Jan's latest panorama. We can now head due east over the least sandy patch in front of us, then south, and presumably loop back a bit to the west to reach Ireson Hill. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 16 2017, 06:38 AM
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We have seen a number of these somewhat unusual meteorites recently. For example, Egg rock, confirmed to be a nickel iron meteorite.
http://mars.nasa.gov/news/curiosity-mars-r...-iron-meteorite There is the possibility that these all originated in the same incident as part of a strewn field, which would imply meteoroid fragmentation in a more dense atmosphere. It will be interesting to find out if the zaps in this example give the same result as Egg Rock. |
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Jan 16 2017, 03:39 PM
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We have seen a number of these somewhat unusual meteorites recently. For example, Egg rock, confirmed to be a nickel iron meteorite. http://mars.nasa.gov/news/curiosity-mars-r...-iron-meteorite There is the possibility that these all originated in the same incident as part of a strewn field, which would imply meteoroid fragmentation in a more dense atmosphere. It will be interesting to find out if the zaps in this example give the same result as Egg Rock. Did they get a sampling of the odd "horseshoe inclusion" to the right? To my eyes, it looks like a piece of the meteorite still embedded in stone, as if the meteorite formed a small yardang and then toppled over. That would require that the meteorite was buried and then exhumed. |
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Jan 17 2017, 01:49 PM
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Jan 17 2017, 08:04 PM
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Waow. Very nice martian landscape Charborob.
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Jan 17 2017, 09:15 PM
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Yes, that's a beaut alright!
We just had a drive. Here is a Hazcam reprojection of the new location: It looks like a drive of about 50 m, southeast and then south. Map update tonight. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 18 2017, 02:55 AM
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...now wishing i had one of those super-widescreen monitors to desktop charborob's excellent stitch of that most impressive sol1580 butte.
found the meteorite candidate also imaged in several navcams from sol1576. here's an anaglyph and parallel excerpt:: |
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Jan 18 2017, 03:16 AM
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found the Meteorite candidate also imaged in several navcams.... From the 'Red Planet Report' dated 17 January 2017: According to MSL Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada of JPL, “This shiny object, called ‘Ames Knob,’ was noticed in recent images from Curiosity. It resembles the iron-nickel meteorite, ‘Egg Rock,’ that Curiosity examined in November, so this target was inspected with the laser-firing ChemCam spectrometer. It yielded similar results (i.e., iron and nickel), so possibly a meteorite.” |
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