The Return to Home Plate Options

[fredk]

Sounds reasonable. I believe this is the same "landslide" area from the hirise image:

[fredk]

A nice view of the "landslide" from sol 813, under low illumination angle. You can identify features with the orbital view I posted above.

[Gray]

Hmm, if that truly is a landslide, I wonder what might have triggered it. On Earth there are a variety of processes that trigger landslides: earthquakes,very rapid rates sediment accumulation, heavy rains, removing the toe of a slope causing it to be unstable... water is often involved but not always.

[djellison]

If you've got deposition for long enough, at some point, perhaps helped by a gust of wind - there will be that one bit of sand that just tips the balance and off you go

Doug

[fredk]

Nearby impact would be another idea.

[RobertEB]

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...AZP2364R7M1.JPG

Check out that cap rock. Looks like very fine volcanic layering.


(EDITED : Bad practice to put a full res image into a thread - post a link instead)

[Tesheiner]

> (EDITED : Bad practice to put a full res image into a thread - post a link instead)

In the specific case of the images from the MER website I would post the respective thumbnail as plain image linked to the full res picture. The thumbnail is only 1KB.

[RobertEB]

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...AZP2364R7M1.JPG

Check out that cap rock. Looks like very fine volcanic layering.


(EDITED : Bad practice to put a full res image into a thread - post a link instead)

Sorry

[jvandriel]

Here is the 360 degree panoramic view taken on Sol 1187

with the L0 Navcam.

jvandriel

Attached thumbnail(s)

 

[Phil Stooke]

And jvandriel's latest pan in polar format...

Phil

[fredk]

Check out that cap rock. Looks like very fine volcanic layering.

In 3D:

[Guest_Analyst_*]

Is Spirit even moving? I mean, they are at this side of home plate forever now. The sun won't be much higher in the sky and the wheel won't get better. Have they made a significant discovery or are there problems?

Analyst

[kenny]

Yes, we're all wondering... week after week and it goes nowhere, Give us a clue?

[centsworth_II]

I don't know if that's what they're doing, but
remember that an APXS and Mossbauer set
of observations can take two to three days.

[Tesheiner]

Last move was yestersol (1201) and based on the imaging sequence names for that sol, and on the fhaz too, it looks like Spirit made a sort of trench.

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