MSL at Rocknest, First scoop samples - sols 57-101 |
MSL at Rocknest, First scoop samples - sols 57-101 |
Nov 16 2012, 11:20 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
And my take also on this pan Enhanced levels in order to pop-out some details on the rim's mountains.
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Nov 16 2012, 08:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 866 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 196 |
...The Sol 78 pan is also pretty nice - especially the crazy stone on the left side ... seems almost as if that crazy stone got flipped upside down (reminds me of Natural Bridges beach formation in my hometown before it collapsed), and there do seem to be a lot of rocks where the part in contact with the sand seems to have eroded much more (and recently exposed) than the more perennially exposed part, seems there could be multiple things going on geologically speaking (and of course admittedly including some observation bias). heres another interesting protrusion (stovepipe with 'mouth' agape to right). |
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Nov 17 2012, 02:39 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
At last - a small movement. I'm still trying to characterize it, may be mostly a turn in place. EDIT - no, they have moved so the rover is sitting right on top of the little drift from which samples were scooped. Compare front hazcams with sol 56. Route map update on Monday.
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Nov 17 2012, 03:37 PM
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Nov 17 2012, 04:45 PM
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Ant's second half-pan in circular format. Looks like Curiosity backed up to the north slightly, then drove south just a couple of meters and turned clockwise a bit.
Phil PS It will be interesting to see how the 'triple junction' at Glenelg is examined. Three units - the fractured and layered rock of the high thermal inertia unit, a cratered plains unit and a hummocky unit where Curiosity landed. Ideally all three should be analyzed and their contacts examined. We've been on the hummocky unit but it has not really been analyzed thoroughly (the scoops were all in wind-blown dust on top of the hummocky unit) - so we presumably have ChemCam data on parts of it, but reallly nothing else. So will we see stops on all three units, or will attention focus on the fracture hi-TI unit with the rest left to photo-geology? -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Nov 17 2012, 08:19 PM
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Nov 18 2012, 12:32 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Good suggestion.
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Nov 18 2012, 12:28 PM
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This 3D view really shows, I think, the rugged nature of area of the floor of Gale Crater where Curiosity is now...
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Nov 18 2012, 09:10 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Question - if you look at Navcam images of the scoop area, there are several little dark spots in a cluster just across the top of the drift from the scoops. They were there on sol 84 but not on sol 74. I'm not sure if they are ChemCam laser holes or spots where bits of debris fell out of the scoop. I don't see ChemCam images which look like they are of this area. Any ideas?
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Nov 18 2012, 10:27 PM
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Nov 19 2012, 08:06 AM
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It is great! Earlier than on an official site?
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Nov 19 2012, 02:36 PM
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Nov 19 2012, 08:12 PM
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Nov 19 2012, 08:26 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Unlikely - it's just terrain seen at a different time of day at a different angle. You're not accounting for the autonomous stretching done to the image.
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Nov 19 2012, 08:49 PM
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I will add that it's just a variation of the atmospheric opacity. But there's no dust storm here.
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