South from the landing site, sols 72-237, Starting the science traverse |
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South from the landing site, sols 72-237, Starting the science traverse |
 May 3 2021, 11:35 PM
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Solar System Cartographer  Group: Members Posts: 10146 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227  |
It's not easy to figure out where to divide threads, but we just had a drive on sol 72 which I think we could say signifies the beginning of the traverse to the south and the start of regular science operations. Originally I expected a clean break with helicopter operations but we are not getting such an obvious dividing point.
So I am taking it on myself to start a new thread for the exploration mission. If the timing seems wrong people can let me know. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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May 4 2021, 12:15 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10146 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
This is the new location after the sol 72 drive. Map update follows!
Phil
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May 4 2021, 05:11 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 691 Joined: 21-December 07 From: Clatskanie, Oregon Member No.: 3988 |
Here is my version for the Sol-72 Post-drive panorama. I kind of went your way Phil in projecting the polar, or what you say is called 'Circular'. Let me know if you want me to do these in the future over the previous polar projection that I used.
 
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May 4 2021, 06:25 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10146 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
That's very nice, James. If you feel like doing that I would be happy to see it.
It looks to me like there is a nice path to the SSW from here to a smooth area which would be the next helicopter landing zone. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke 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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May 4 2021, 08:33 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 282 Joined: 18-June 04 Member No.: 84 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ May 4 2021, 12:35 AM)  It's not easy to figure out where to divide threads, but we just had a drive on sol 72 which I think we could say signifies the beginning of the traverse to the south and the start of regular science operations. Originally I expected a clean break with helicopter operations but we are not getting such an obvious dividing point. So I am taking it on myself to start a new thread for the exploration mission. If the timing seems wrong people can let me know. Phil I think by SOL would be best : Sol 0 - 100 Sol 101 - 200 etc |
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May 4 2021, 08:47 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Good call, Phil. The shift to a new phase of the journey has definitely happened.
Onward! -------------------- 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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May 4 2021, 01:47 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Phobos (I think) imaged by skycam twice a few minutes apart overnight on sol 73:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/p...5_0000LUJ01.png https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/p...5_0000LUJ01.png |
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May 4 2021, 07:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
No sign of any skyglow in those images - the ND mask should make that easy if it was there. Insight ICC, which is optically identical to skycam, was able to see some skyglow at night back at sol 370, which we speculated was due to Phobos-shine. Perhaps it's just a matter of exposure time.
ICC also caught Sirius on several occasions, so skycam should be able to too, and the skycam plan was to measure stellar fluxes at night. |
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May 4 2021, 11:38 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2425 Joined: 30-January 13 From: Penang, Malaysia. Member No.: 6853 |
Another drive on sol 73, looks to be SSE
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May 4 2021, 11:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 248 Joined: 25-February 21 From: Waltham, Massachussetts, U.S.A. Member No.: 8974 |
Two large boulders, cracked vertically on sol 73, next to each other. Coincidence ? Perhaps the same material, and similar shape, responding to thermal stresses ? With a preexisting weakness in similarly oriented planes ?
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/p...1_01_295J01.png https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/p...8_13_195J01.png -------------------- --
Andreas Plesch, andreasplesch at gmail dot com |
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May 5 2021, 03:29 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 691 Joined: 21-December 07 From: Clatskanie, Oregon Member No.: 3988 |
The Sol-73 Post-drive Navcam pan's. I'm now aligning the circular/polar image to North-top which I'm using the terrific Marslife.org website to quickly determine that. I'm not aligning the regular panorama yet.
  Circular/Polar 
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May 5 2021, 03:55 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10146 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Thanks, James, very useful. Looking for new science targets or looking for a path to the south? I wish we were getting more reports on activity, as we do with Curiosity. Maybe later...
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke 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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May 5 2021, 05:53 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 691 Joined: 21-December 07 From: Clatskanie, Oregon Member No.: 3988 |
My attempt at the Sol-73 Navcam sky pan. There was some lovely clouds visible in the raws, I might have butchered the heck out of them during blending.
Ah well, I tried... Looking forward to Damia's version. Her last one was cleaner. 
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May 5 2021, 07:35 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
Yes, hard pictures.
QUOTE His last one was cleaner. Her. My version of this spectacular panoramic  Postcard maybe ? 
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May 5 2021, 11:36 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
It's wonderful to see a full sky colour panorama from Mars. Congratulations to all concerned. It would be great for projecting on a planetarium (or other) dome.
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