Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point' |
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 Apr 22 2011, 10:28 AM
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Senior Member  Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253  |
Quiet here, indeed, but actually not on Mars.
 Yestersol (2574) post-drive pictures are already down and I will post an updated route map in a minute. Opportunity is currently parked next to feature D, I think. |
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Apr 22 2011, 11:41 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Sol 2574 images:
Phil
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Apr 22 2011, 12:34 PM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
broooommmm
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Apr 22 2011, 01:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2820 Joined: 22-April 05 From: Ridderkerk, Netherlands Member No.: 353 |
The Pancam L2 view on Sol 2572.
Jan van Driel
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Apr 22 2011, 08:28 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 111 Joined: 14-March 05 From: Vastitas Borealis Member No.: 193 |
Might be a possible dust devil at the extreme left border of jvandriel's panorama, just below the horizon, visible only against the dark ground. The original (right eye) frame here .
Or then another outcrop, but at least to my eye it looks a bit too 'fluffy' and misty for stone. |
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Apr 22 2011, 08:42 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
I spotted that one as well, thinking it looked like a dust devil or gust too. But if you look closely, it's visible in exactly the same spot in this navcam, so it's got to be a fixed feature:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...0M1.JPG?sol2572 |
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Apr 22 2011, 09:21 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
"Double Crater" up ahead...
Size compared to Oppy...
More images here: http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2011/...er-crater-ahead -------------------- |
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Apr 23 2011, 12:05 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Crater? What crater? I don't see a crater, or two.
Oh look! over there, a sand dune, just past the crater. Let's go have a look at the sand dune. If it's uninteresting we can just keep on going. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Apr 23 2011, 01:56 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Neat! But, yeah...we gotta keep going. Distant vistas await.
BTW, Stu, knowing & fully supporting your meteorite interest...what do you think the odds are that many if not most of the ones we've seen to date were from a single fall? They were all iron/nickel, and distributed throughout a fairly small geographical area. -------------------- 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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Apr 23 2011, 04:44 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Well, we appear to be heading right for it, so I'm thinking a quick potter about there, if only to take a brief breather, will be the plan. And we can never have too many 'crater beyond a crater' shots, can we?
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Apr 23 2011, 04:48 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
...as for the meteorites, I'm no expert but looking at them a single fall strewnfield isn't too outrageous an idea, but I'm really not qualified to say anything more than that
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Apr 24 2011, 05:07 AM
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QUOTE (nprev @ Apr 22 2011, 07:56 PM)  ... ...what do you think the odds are that many if not most of the ones we've seen to date were from a single fall? They were all iron/nickel, and distributed throughout a fairly small geographical area. Quite a few papers have been written about the meteorites discovered by Opportunity at Meridiani Planum. I've read five or six of them and none of those claimed that all or many of the Fe/Ni meteorites were from a single fall. Most of the papers do point out that three of the metallic meteorites (Heat Shield Rock, Block Island, Shelter Island) are quite similar, and are classified as Type IAB iron meteorites. The fourth iron meteorite (Mackinac Island) was not investigated with the IDD instruments, but a pancam spectrum was obtained which was very similar to that of Shelter Island. Apparently all four of these meteorites are pretty similar. I think it would be pretty difficult to prove that these were all from the same parent, with measurements Opportunity can make. One paper, however, did mention the possibility that iron and stony meteorites found by Opportunity may be evidence of two overlapping strewn fields. -------------------- ...Tom
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Apr 24 2011, 06:57 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Ah. Thanks, Tom! (I really should get off my shiny metal etc. & look up these papers before posting such questions...)
-------------------- 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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Apr 24 2011, 05:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Oh heck, Nick; none of us can keep up with everything surrounding these missions. That's what this forum is good for.
-------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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Apr 25 2011, 05:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Tribulation registered and averaged over four L2/R2 frames (sols 2569 and 2561) to reduce jpeg noise (not a proper superres treatment):
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