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QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 7 2011, 12:28 AM)  I think this may be a sneak preview of Oppy's drive direction You can really see how the air's gotten dustier recently in that mosaic. Compare this new frame from 2529: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...5M1.JPG?sol2529 with this frame from 2484, back at the conjunction stop: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...AXP2374L5M1.JPG Tribulation's hazier now, and the bits of Iazu in the far background are getting hard to see. |
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Mar 7 2011, 04:14 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 6 2011, 04:28 PM) I think this may be a sneak preview of Oppy's drive direction when she finally turns her back on Santa Maria, and heads for the faraway hills of Endeavour... I wouldn't be shocked if we passed through there. But FWIW those three Pancam frames are labelled "Rodrigo de Escobar"; another Santa Maria crewman. |
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Mar 7 2011, 04:33 PM
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I noticed that too. I just thought that it looked like a likely direction, and it's a nice "downhill" view in 3D too...
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Mar 7 2011, 05:22 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 5 2011, 12:08 AM) Crude mosaic of MI images of the surface of Ruiz's 'scab' over on its left... Since color MI's are all the rage lately, I borrowed Stu's MI mosaic as well as his color composition of Ruiz, did a little perspective twisting and bending, and came up with this. As Stu would say, "just messing about..."
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Mar 7 2011, 05:57 PM
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You really should do more work like that, that's a fantastic picture.
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Mar 7 2011, 11:00 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 7 2011, 11:57 AM) You really should do more work like that, that's a fantastic picture. I agree; that is really good stuff. |
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Mar 7 2011, 11:08 PM
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What are the straight dark lines?
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Mar 7 2011, 11:35 PM
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QUOTE (ngunn @ Mar 7 2011, 05:08 PM) What are the straight dark lines? Contact probe shadow? |
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Mar 8 2011, 12:36 AM
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Continuing our occasional series of fantasy Endeavour views...
The Hills are calling Oppy...
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Mar 8 2011, 01:13 AM
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Really amazing picture Dan!
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Mar 8 2011, 01:17 AM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 7 2011, 04:36 PM) The Hills are calling Oppy... Does that mean there is an ex-nun dancing and twirling around up there? -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Mar 8 2011, 02:04 AM
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Great stuff, Dan & Stu!
Well, if Julie Andrews is up there singing, we mercifully would never hear it since I assume she wouldn't be taking off her helmet while doing so... -------------------- 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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Mar 8 2011, 02:54 AM
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I think we'd be even less likely to hear it if she took off her helmet...
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Mar 8 2011, 06:02 AM
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"the clays are alive with the CRISM sounder..."
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Mar 8 2011, 06:39 AM
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"the hills are alive, with the sound of Marsic..."
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