Bottomless Bay, Next stop after Cape St. Mary Options

[jvandriel]

Panorama from Sol 1028. Taken with the L0 navcam.

As soon as the other images are down, I will complete

the panorama.

jvandriel

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[ustrax]

Looking across Bottomless Bay in long baseline 3D. L2 pancams from sol 1019 and 1021:
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Everyone providing a "local" look into into Mars deserves a Xmas present...
That includes you...
Come up with your best wishes!
...And thank you!

[mhoward]

Couldn't resist...

[Phil Stooke]

Here is jvandriel's pan on polar form.

Phil

[jvandriel]

Stretching Autostitch to the limit and added 1 image.

Panorama taken on Sol 1021 and 1023 with the

R0 Navcam.

jvandriel

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[Airbag]

The pano above appears to show a nice example of the "Opposition Effect" around the Pancam assembly's shadow.

Airbag

[mhoward]

A special treat on Sol 1030: A bottom row of Navcam images, taken at the same time as the top.

[Nirgal]

A special treat on Sol 1030: A bottom row of Navcam images, taken at the same time as the top.

wonderful view !

[CosmicRocker]

The rest of what we needed for the color view of the B1 side of Bottomless Bay came down today. It is from the sols 1016-1019 position. This would be more artistically pleasing if I darkened it somewhat, but that wipes out some of the bedding details.

[SteveM]

That's the same darn blueberry image we argued about earlier. Remember the discussion of cone-shaped berries versus spherical? SS has also used the bathtub ring analogy (I think it is a great analogy) several times previously to describe the concept that the concretions diminished in size and possibly disappeared altogether as Opportunity climbed in elevation, and probably stratigraphically, above an ancient water table.

I think it was a decent article, but it is mostly recycled information from other sources.

Considering the blueberry bathtub ring after a week or so, I was wondering how well the hematite rich bathtub ring could be roughly mapped with the Mini TES before entering the crater. (Remember the Mini TES images from Eagle crater).

On that regard, we haven't heard much about the Mini TES lately from NASA -- or on this forum for that matter. Do any of our sources have a way to know what's being done with instruments other than the cameras?

Steve

[jamescanvin]

NE (Cape B1) side of Bottomless Bay - Sol 1019 - L257



Sharpened and shadow enhanced version.



James

[CosmicRocker]

Right, Steve. For apparent reasons, the simple imagery has always been in the public limelight on these missions. I wish they would feed us more frequently from the other bands. That crude miniTES overlay from Eagle pretty much told the initial story there, and surely guided future operations. I wouldn't mind seeing something similar at Victoria.

As freakin' gorgeous as usual, James. I was coming back to replace my image with a newer version where I corrected the data dropouts, but there is no reason to do that, now. I always wanted to teach myself to fill in the gaps. It was amazingly easy, but the result is still inferior, now that you have returned to the party. I am still amazed by your earlier posting of the L2 version colorized with the thumbnails, as I am with jvandriel's colorization. I am slowly catching on to some of the techniques, but I still find color balancing a challenge.

[Tesheiner]

WRT sol 1032 activities, it was a driving sol.

The rover moved towards the rim, as can be seen on these two navcam images.
Before (sol 1030): http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportu...S3P0715L0M1.JPG
After (sol 1032): http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportu...TUP1997L0M1.JPG

There is a single navcam pic at the exploratorium (as of 16:50 UTC) so it's too early to make any driving distance estimation.

Edited: 8m according to the rover's mobility data.

[Ant103]

And my own version of the layers of Bottomless Bay


Enjoy

[Julius]

Dont really understand fully the idea of bueberry bathtub ring and the proof that water interaction in the formation of the haematite within the sulphate rich rock was mainly subsurface rather than surface water.I kinda like the idea that Victoria being at a higher elevation than eagle and endurance craters indicates that the surface water was shallower at the higher areas which would account for the smaller sized berries.The higher concentration and bigger sized berries around Victoria would only result from the excavation of such berries by the impact that created Victoria rather than an indication that subsurface was the main culprit .Maybe I still dont get the gest of it!