The Descent into Victoria, Possible and Actual Strategies |
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The Descent into Victoria, Possible and Actual Strategies |
 Jul 12 2007, 03:24 AM
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If anyone sees that article in Aviation Week, it's worth noting that the online picture and the main image accompanying the printed version, first appeared here on UMSF.
It's the 'Opportunity Descends into Victoria Crater' image that I did a few weeks back before the storm. The image is credited: Glen Nagle, Doug Ellison, unmannedspaceflight.com. Thanks to 'marsloon' for helping to make this happen. Yippee! Another score for the UMSF team. Astro0 |
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Jul 12 2007, 04:51 AM
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How true! The image magicians of UMSF are a science editor's Best Friend.
-------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Jul 13 2007, 11:36 PM
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For those still following the exploits of Oppy, she's started to move around to the entry point.
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Jul 14 2007, 12:24 AM
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Awesome! So the storm's blown over and sunlight's streaming in?
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Jul 14 2007, 03:13 AM
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No. The storm is not over. But the rover has not been doing much for many days. The batteries could be in good shape, so they decided to use them a little. I think the movement is more for collecting useful data during the storm than actually getting to the entry point.
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Jul 14 2007, 02:25 PM
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QUOTE (Geographer @ Jul 13 2007, 08:24 PM)  Awesome! So the storm's blown over and sunlight's streaming in? I think an appropriate song at this point would be the Beatles "Here Comes the Sun" 
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Aug 10 2007, 08:57 PM
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Aug 10 2007, 09:54 PM
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QUOTE (Chmee @ Jul 14 2007, 07:25 AM) I think an appropriate song at this point would be the Beatles "Here Comes the Sun" "It's all right..." yeah, sure hope so for our "little darlin'... -------------------- 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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Aug 10 2007, 11:37 PM
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That entry animation is cute, however I think it's going to be like Endurance - two feet and then a RAT under foot, another two feet, another RAT all the way for each obvious layer.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Aug 12 2007, 04:46 AM
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ElkGroveDan: Agreed -- what would be the point otherwise? Unless they are going directly for the deepest, most quickly reached layer, with the idea that the rest can be filled in on the way out . . .
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Oct 7 2007, 10:48 AM
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My second panorama :
http://www.enregistrersous.com/images/1076...71007124639.jpg |
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Oct 7 2007, 01:41 PM
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Nice stitch, Space... which software are you using.
I made this one with Autotstich but I encountered some difficulties in order to reproduce a correct crater slope everywhere:
And this is an elaboration (with sharpening) of left portion:
(both pictures are 70% original scale) -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Oct 9 2007, 11:10 AM
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The pans provided by space and dilo show some nice views of eolian erosional features called yardangs:
http://www.tec.army.mil/research/products/...heet/lsyard.htm The features at Victoria are mico-yardangs, only a few centimeters/ten's of centimeters high. I wonder if these features set up the pattern that results in the embayed nature of Victoria's rim -- the emabyments and projections are just larger yardangs that have undergone some mass-wasting and undercutting due to differential erosion to make the near vertical cliffs. It would be a satisfyingly fractal landscape evolution story! -------------------- Tim Demko
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