Opportunity Route Map Options

[Bill Harris]

I'd go for the naming of names on the Route Map, as long as isn't too cluttered. But as a convention, we ought to put "informal" names in quotation marks and formal names without quotes, ie "Corner Crater" and Beagle Crater.

--Bill

[Phil Stooke]

My map - which has been posted here before in a reduced format - is in a different style. I will not update the other map, I'll post the latest version of mine as I update it.

(edit) - here is the current version of my Opportunity map. I am mapping the route in 500 m square sections, each section will be a separate illustration in a future project. Here I combine the two most recent of them (sections 14 and 15). The grid is labelled in meters from the landing site.

Phil

[Pavel]

My map - which has been posted here before in a reduced format - is in a different style. I will not update the other map, I'll post the latest version of mine as I update it.

Beautiful! Thank you, Phil! Looking forward to the updates.

And by the way, can we have Spirit's map in this format, please? You won't need to update it often, in the next few months anyway

[Phil Stooke]

OK, it's over in the Spirit area.

Phil

[algorimancer]

Just FYI, especially for the benefit of the mappers and navigators, I've just posted a major new release of AlgorimancerPG to the "Tech, General and Imagery" section. The new version has the option to incorporate rover and masthead orientation so as to output coordinates in the local topocentric frame, plus has the capability of wide baseline photogrammetry (using images from separate rover locations) to greatly extend the range and accuracy of the results.

[gregp1962]

Wasn't today a drve sol?

[RNeuhaus]

Wasn't today a drve sol?

Yes, today at this time ( past 14:00 pm Mars time) Oppy is being tranversing. The most probable driving direction is around 90 degree azimuth (toward to north rim of Victoria Crater).

Rodolfo

[djellison]

The most probable driving direction is around 90 degree azimuth (toward to north rim of Victoria Crater).

There is no suggestion that they are driving to Victoria yet - none at all. There is work to be done at Beagle first.

Doug

[dot.dk]

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/d...good-shape.html

On 14 August, Opportunity will start driving towards Victoria crater, which is 800 m across and perhaps 40 m deep. This journey is expected to take about a month.

[djellison]

5 days - sounds like one thorough IDD campaign to me.

Doug

[Pando]

Here's a nice map (a bit old though). Not sure if you guys have seen this thing or not...

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[CosmicRocker]

No, we haven't! ...and it's a keeper. Very intriguing on a number of levels. Many thanks, Pando.

edit: I forgot to say, aside from the fascinating future route map, I noticed the original plan was to take an early diagonal toward Beagle as many here were guessing before we saw the dunes from the rover's eyes. But more fascinating to me are the arrows pointing to this new Halfpipe formation right around the Hell of a View location. I'm going back to see if I can figure out what that is all about.

Lastly, if you can put your fingers on any other adjoining pieces of that map, some of us would be very appreciative.

[ElkGroveDan]

Here's a nice map (a bit old though). Not sure if you guys have seen this thing or not...

Have we been digging in the trash bin out behind JPL?

[aldo12xu]

But more fascinating to me are the arrows pointing to this new Halfpipe formation right around the Hell of a View location.

Absolutely! This suggests that we encountered a new stratigraphic horizon at Payson, where the term first appeared. But are we above or below the Burns Formation?

Any other crumbs lying around JPL's trashbin, Pando??

[CosmicRocker]

Good to see you on the hunt, aldo12xu. This new formation name made me dig back into previous panoramas. Thank god for MMB.

Here are the clues that I had to start with.

* Pando's map

* According to my notes from the LPSC this spring, Grotzinger and others mentioned something called the "Mogollon Contact," which was the highest contact mentioned so far, but they said very little else about it. It is supposed to be above Burns and it's contacts.

* Back when they were at Mogollon they used the term "halfpipe" to describe the low road they took below the outcrop ledge.

* So, we have a contact (possibly between two geological formations) named the Mogollon contact, and the named geomorphic feature called halfpipe that they drove through in the vicinity.

* Phil's very nicely annotated map.

* later, (around Hell of a View) they are pointing to other ledges and the Halfpipe formation on Pando's map.

I went back to Mogollon and and later sites to look around. In all of them there is a ledge nearby, and in some of them, there are also dark cobbles about. It's a pretty convincing geomorphic layer. It is late, so I am passing the ball to the nearest person...