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Roving into the Sulfate Hills, Sol 3200-3387, 6 Aug 2021-16 Feb 2022

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Phil Stooke View Member Profile	Aug 5 2021, 06:24 AM Post #1
Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10162 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227	I am starting a new thread for the climb into the hills and valleys of the sulfate unit. I had naively anticipated knowing when a sharp compositional boundary would be crossed, but more likely it will be gradual and the crossing point arbitrary. So the odometer clicking up to 3200 seems like a reasonable place to start a new section. There will be no shortage of amazing views to greet us as we rove on, singing 'sulfates on the soles of our shoes' perhaps. Start posting here on sol 3200! Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself. Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain)

vikingmars View Member Profile	Aug 5 2021, 10:24 AM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1088 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172	QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Aug 5 2021, 08:24 AM) I am starting a new thread for the climb into the hills and valleys of the sulfate unit. I had naively anticipated knowing when a sharp compositional boundary would be crossed, but more likely it will be gradual and the crossing point arbitrary. So the odometer clicking up to 3200 seems like a reasonable place to start a new section. There will be no shortage of amazing views to greet us as we rove on, singing 'sulfates on the soles of our shoes' perhaps. Start posting here on sol 3200! Phil What a nice idea! Thanks a lot Phil

Saturns Moon Tit... Saturns Moon Titan View Member Profile	Aug 5 2021, 12:02 PM Post #3
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 75 Joined: 8-July 15 Member No.: 7566	The rugged terrain Curiosity has reached is arguably the most spectacular landscape ever visited by a Mars rover and I cannot wait for the pictures we are going to get. It'll be a fitting place for Curiosity to spend her final years <3. Can anyone point me to a rough traverse path of where the rover will be headed over the next year or two? I hope we get to return to the pediment soon, the view from up there of the rover's 8-year journey will be amazing I'm sure.

PaulH51 View Member Profile	Aug 5 2021, 12:15 PM Post #4
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2428 Joined: 30-January 13 From: Penang, Malaysia. Member No.: 6853	Version 10 of the 'Mount Sharp Ascent Route' (MSAR) is the latest version that I am aware of. It was documented in an abstract from the 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. The abstract has several figures that show the path and describe some of the candidate science waypoints along the path. Spoiler alert: They do plan to revisit the Pediment LINK QUOTE (Saturns Moon Titan @ Aug 5 2021, 08:02 PM) ...Can anyone point me to a rough traverse path of where the rover will be headed over the next year or two? I hope we get to return to the pediment soon...

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The Navcam R view on Sol 3197.

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Bill Harris View Member Profile	Aug 5 2021, 06:41 PM Post #6
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2998 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105	QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Aug 5 2021, 01:24 AM) I am starting a new thread for the climb into the hills and valleys of the sulfate unit. I had naively anticipated knowing when a sharp compositional boundary would be crossed, but... Phil Likely with all the float moving downslope we won't see a sharp boundary. We can keep looking for undisturbed outcrops not at the head of talus slopes and close enough to zap with the Chemcam. Astounding journey... --Bill -------------------- Dawn-- Ceres Pluto Encounter Rosetta Mission

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May as well kick off this thread properly with this majestic view from one of the NavCam during sol 3200

Phil Stooke View Member Profile	Aug 8 2021, 07:30 AM Post #8
Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10162 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227	Incredible! The atmosphere has really cleared up. A few months ago you could hardly see the hills. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself. Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain)

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The Navcam R view on Sol 3202.

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The Mastcam L view on Sol 3201.

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Aug 10 2021, 11:50 AM

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Sol 3202 Rmastcam:

alan View Member Profile	Aug 11 2021, 12:50 AM Post #13
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110	Interesting color contrast between the cap and the lower layers.

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The Navcam R view on Sol 3203.

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Aug 11 2021, 08:24 PM

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And we have almost arrived at the pediment already! The resistant capstone at the top of the cliff in front of us is indeed the Greenheugh pediment

I have overlaid the MSAR_10 route (the most recent strategic route) to show roughly where the team probably intends to ascend up onto the pediment. From the looks of the planned traverse, the rover will follow this cliff uphill, squeezing through a narrow passage and then ascending a ramp. However, before all that I expect they'll want to drill nearby to where we are now, to document the chemistry of the rocks directly underneath the pediment. Once we're ontop, the view will be very special. Looks like they plan on sending the rover towards that big ridge that runs down the middle of it - my understanding is that there's debate over whether the Greenheugh pediment represents just aeolian sandstones, basically a lateral continuation of the stimson formation (remember the buttes all those years ago?), alternatively it might be an alluvial fan. It certainly resembles a fan in shape and that big ridge running down the middle could be an inverted channel. This is why the mission geologists want to send the rover there, to check which theory's true!

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Aug 12 2021, 04:00 AM

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The sol 3203 panorama kindly provided by Jan, in circular form. A very rough landscape!

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Aug 12 2021, 05:37 AM

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I tried taking one of the auto-generated Navcam mosaics - turning it into philovision and then an HDR stretch to even out some of the lighting for the Sol 3204 mosaic - came out pretty well.

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Phil Stooke View Member Profile	Aug 12 2021, 06:21 AM Post #18
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Aug 12 2021, 11:28 AM

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Here is new work Phil.

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djellison View Member Profile	Aug 12 2021, 03:20 PM Post #20
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	For those wondering - rough (but not JPGd) post drive imaging mosaics get posted here - https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/mosaics/ - automagically by a downlink script that generates them after downlink. If you see multiple mosaics for a given sol, that's subsequent downlink passes sending more data to fill in more blanks. That's what I used to make that phil-o-vision from 2 posts ago

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Aug 12 2021, 07:30 PM

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Chemcam view on Sol 3204.

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Aug 13 2021, 06:29 AM

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Phil Stooke View Member Profile	Aug 13 2021, 04:05 PM Post #23
Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10162 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227	Sol 3206 - we had a c. 5 m drive northwest (maybe for an interesting target?) - map update after Grandad duty. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself. Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain)

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Member Group: Members Posts: 923 Joined: 10-November 15 Member No.: 7837	QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 12 2021, 04:20 PM) For those wondering - rough (but not JPGd) post drive imaging mosaics get posted here - https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/mosaics/ - automagically by a downlink script that generates them after downlink. If you see multiple mosaics for a given sol, that's subsequent downlink passes sending more data to fill in more blanks. That's what I used to make that phil-o-vision from 2 posts ago Oh to get those unstretched images as png's on the day they are downlinked... maybe as a 10 year anniversary gift? -------------------- Youtube Twitter Flickr

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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	This late in the mission - when budgets for refactoring the website to receive them - pretty unlikely. But I'll try and ask around.

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The Navcam R view on Sol 3206.

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Sol 3206 Mastcam Drive Direction

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And post drive imaging in Phil-O-Vision

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QUOTE (Saturns Moon Titan @ Aug 11 2021, 09:24 PM)

And we have almost arrived at the pediment already! The resistant capstone at the top of the cliff in front of us is indeed the Greenheugh pediment

Some Hong Kong University scientists in a recent paper have suggested that all rock layers studied by Cuuriosity so far except for the Bradbury formation seem to be wind swept deposits rather than lacustrine. Any ideas?

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Aug 15 2021, 11:48 AM

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QUOTE (Julius @ Aug 15 2021, 10:53 AM)

FYI
Intense subaerial weathering of eolian sediments in Gale crater, Mars
Jiacheng Liu1,2, Joseph R. Michalski1,2, and Mei-Fu Zhou1,3
Science Advances 06 Aug 2021:Vol. 7, no. 32, eabh2687 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abh2687
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/32/eabh2687.full
Figure #6 from the paper summarizes their theory

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Phil Stooke View Member Profile	Aug 15 2021, 04:39 PM Post #31
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neo56 View Member Profile	Aug 16 2021, 09:19 PM Post #32
Member Group: Members Posts: 810 Joined: 3-June 04 From: Brittany, France Member No.: 79	Panorama taken on sol 3206 with extended sky. The view on Greenheugh pediment is really beautiful. -------------------- Thomas Appéré Personal webpage My flickr gallery Twitter

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The Navcam R view on Sol 3209.

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Aug 17 2021, 12:37 PM

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The Chemcam view on Sol 3209.

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Sol 3209 Lmastcam drive direction:

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Aug 17 2021, 11:32 PM

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The Navcam R view on Sol 3210.

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HSchirmer View Member Profile	Aug 18 2021, 01:38 PM Post #37
Member Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 24-July 15 Member No.: 7619	QUOTE (neo56 @ Aug 16 2021, 10:19 PM) Panorama taken on sol 3206 with extended sky. The view on Greenheugh pediment is really beautiful. Wow. That's some impressive captstone...

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The Navcam R view on Sol 3211.

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Aug 19 2021, 08:54 AM

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The Mastcam R view on Sol 3210.

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Aug 19 2021, 09:37 PM

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The Navcam R view on Sol 3212.

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Aug 21 2021, 06:26 AM

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Trying to catch up after a break - here are two of Jan's panoramas in circular form giving nice views of the rugged terrain as we crawl through it.

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Sol 3206:

Sol 3209:

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vikingmars View Member Profile	Aug 21 2021, 07:16 AM Post #42
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1088 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172	QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Aug 21 2021, 08:26 AM) Trying to catch up after a break - here are two of Jan's panoramas in circular form giving nice views of the rugged terrain as we crawl through it. Phil WOW! Thanks a lot Phil

neo56 View Member Profile	Aug 21 2021, 08:38 PM Post #43
Member Group: Members Posts: 810 Joined: 3-June 04 From: Brittany, France Member No.: 79	Panorama taken with NavCam Right on sol 3210, with an extra sky. And a cropped version centered on the Sands of Forvie. What a scenic view! -------------------- Thomas Appéré Personal webpage My flickr gallery Twitter

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Aug 22 2021, 03:31 AM

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More of Jan's panoramas in circular form. Superficially similar but they show good progress through this interesting landscape.

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Sol 3210:

Sol 3211:

Sol 3212:

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Aug 23 2021, 03:04 PM

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Sol 3208 Lmastcam partial panorama:

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Member Group: Members Posts: 810 Joined: 3-June 04 From: Brittany, France Member No.: 79	A beautiful selfie taken on sol 3215. Curiosity is staring at the sky... looking to the Earth maybe? -------------------- Thomas Appéré Personal webpage My flickr gallery Twitter

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Sol 3212 Rmastcam:

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Aug 23 2021, 04:42 PM

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And the sol 3212 Lmastcam drive direction view:

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Aug 24 2021, 01:44 AM

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Sol 3215 Rmastcam:

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Aug 24 2021, 05:41 AM

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The Navcam R view on Sol 3216.

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Jan's sol 3216 panorama in circular form.

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Aug 25 2021, 07:41 PM

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The Navcam R view on Sol 3217.

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Aug 25 2021, 10:53 PM

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Jan's latest panorama in circular form.

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Aug 26 2021, 09:16 AM

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Sol 3217: L-MastCam De-Bayered Workspace using fredk's images, assembled in MS-ICE, with added scale bar

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Teaser for the sol 3219 pan

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Can't wait to see what the others can make of the 360.

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Aug 27 2021, 09:22 PM

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Nice panoramas, Damia and Jan. Here is Jan's panorama in circular form. I love the bare rocky surfaces here.

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and in Stereo.

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This should be the new drill location. Jan's panorama in circular format.

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After gaining 25 meters in elevation since the last drilled sample at 'Pontours', the rover arrives at a candidate drill site. If chosen it will be the 33rd drilled sample by Curiosity.
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Hole number 33 in Gale crater (Maria Gordon)

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The Mastcam R view on Sol 3231-3232.

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Ant103 View Member Profile	Sep 17 2021, 12:03 PM Post #81
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678	Sol 3231 and 3232 Mastcam100 panoramic. It's a very nice one, with a lot of features to explore. -------------------- Marsrovers Images • db-prods.net • Follow me on Twitter

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Sep 17 2021, 01:02 PM

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Sol 3239 Rmastcam:

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Sep 17 2021, 08:17 PM

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QUOTE (charborob @ Sep 17 2021, 05:02 AM)

Sol 3239 Rmastcam:

Nice. Though, mind your step approaching the edge...

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Member Group: Members Posts: 810 Joined: 3-June 04 From: Brittany, France Member No.: 79	QUOTE (Brian Swift @ Sep 17 2021, 09:17 PM) Nice. Though, mind your step approaching the edge... That's true, but it's less dangerous considering the low Martian gravity -------------------- Thomas Appéré Personal webpage My flickr gallery Twitter

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Sep 19 2021, 07:21 AM

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Sol 3233 Chemcam view.

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Sep 19 2021, 09:37 AM

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Navcam R view on Sol 3239. ( Handstitched )

The road ahead?

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Sep 21 2021, 01:12 PM

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The Chemcam view on Sol 3241.

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Ant103 View Member Profile	Sep 25 2021, 11:02 AM Post #88
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678	Sol 3247 Navcam panoramic. I love this place ! -------------------- Marsrovers Images • db-prods.net • Follow me on Twitter

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Sep 25 2021, 12:44 PM

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The Navcam R view on Sol 3247.

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Sep 26 2021, 02:54 AM

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Nice panoramas, Damia and Jan. Here is Jan's in circular form. Time to get caught up on the map!

Phil

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Sep 27 2021, 06:20 PM

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The Chemcam view on Sol 3244.

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Sep 30 2021, 02:12 PM

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Sol 3250 NRB

What is this ? A dust devil ?

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Sep 30 2021, 03:56 PM

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Looks like it - here's the difference of the median stack of frames and the gaussian blurred frame, stretched and added to the original frame:

You can even see the devil's shadow being cast to the right.

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Sep 30 2021, 07:07 PM

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Thanks Fred.

Beautiful.

The Mastcam R view on Sol 3251.

Jan van Driel

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Sep 30 2021, 07:22 PM

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and another Mastcam R view on Sol 3251.

Jan van Driel

Julius View Member Profile	Oct 1 2021, 09:13 AM Post #96
Member Group: Members Posts: 362 Joined: 13-April 06 From: Malta Member No.: 741	Curiosity could sample the Greenheugh pediment rocks from the current position which have clearly broken off and rolled down the slope.