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"The hills were alive, now let's go and proooove it!"
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Mar 8 2011, 04:08 PM
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Getting back to Ruiz. The more I look at these features the more I think of slow, dripping water.
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Mar 8 2011, 04:37 PM
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What it makes me think of is Libyan desert glass: http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http...t:429,r:2,s:112
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Mar 8 2011, 10:07 PM
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I think of Jane Russell, may she rest in peace.
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Mar 9 2011, 06:51 AM
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Farewell, Ruiz...
Probably heading now for a "last viewpoint" for a final batch of pics, then time to move on... -------------------- |
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Mar 9 2011, 03:28 PM
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Looking back across Yuma and the south rim of Santa Maria:
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Mar 9 2011, 06:02 PM
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-------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
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Mar 9 2011, 06:11 PM
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The HiRISE team have released another WOW! pic of Oppy taken on the edge of Santa Maria crater...
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/releases/oppy-sm-color.php Slightly less migraine-inducing b/w version here... 
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Mar 9 2011, 08:59 PM
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When are results of mossbaauer due?
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Mar 9 2011, 09:07 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 9 2011, 07:11 PM)  The HiRISE team have released another WOW! pic of Oppy taken on the edge of Santa Maria crater... http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/releases/oppy-sm-color.php I know they probably wanted to release the image fast so processing was quick, but wow, they really kicked up the contrast all the way to eleven on that one. -------------------- |
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Mar 9 2011, 09:17 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
I know what you mean; when I clicked on the link and the image appeared my first reaction was a horror film cry of "My eyes! My eyes!!!!"...
But there's a lot of detail in there, hidden away. That's why I thought I'd try to tame it a little, and make a b/w version. That and I'd run out of Nurofen... -------------------- |
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Mar 10 2011, 12:19 AM
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I sure love this view, So very close...
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Mar 11 2011, 09:05 AM
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I was using the fantastic MER image decoder ( http://www.greuti.ch/oppy/html/filenames_ltst.htm ) to check when a pancam image was actually taken, and found that sunrise occurs for Oppy right now at around 114 degrees azimuth... that sounded familiar.. so I checked using Google Earth and, yep, if I've worked it out right (and if I haven't I'll be happy to be set straight), the sun comes up for Oppy right behind the tallest hills on the farside of Endeavour, right behind that STILL unnamed crater dug out of the hillside... Here, a fanciful view...
As ever, just a bit of fun. Interestingly, if I've got my Google Earth alignments right, Cape York lies approx one quarter of the way between that sun and the right hand side of the picture, so when she sets off for Endeavour late next week Oppy will be heading for the sunrise... kind of fitting...
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Mar 11 2011, 12:56 PM
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While Spirit has likely headed off into the sunset.
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Mar 11 2011, 03:01 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 11 2011, 01:05 AM) ... so when she sets off for Endeavour late next week Oppy will be heading for the sunrise... Dream on, on to the heart of the sunrise Sharp distance How can the wind with its arms all around me -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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