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The Return to Home Plate
jvandriel
post May 27 2007, 12:13 PM
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Here is the L7 panoramic view taken on Sol 1203.

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post May 27 2007, 02:36 PM
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The Mi mosaic after brushing on Sol 1205.

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post May 27 2007, 05:26 PM
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Love all the weird 'sculptures' here...

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post May 27 2007, 06:20 PM
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Lots of layering. I wonder if they will stick around for awhile to determine if the composition changes between the upper and lower layers.

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post May 27 2007, 07:57 PM
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Great image. Fantastic geology. Don't the rover drivers have any respect, they drive over most exquisite sculptures. tongue.gif Actually, the layered material is quite strong as the furthest track crossed a layered rock with no apparent damage.


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post May 27 2007, 08:36 PM
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QUOTE (alan @ May 27 2007, 01:20 PM) *
Lots of layering. I wonder if they will stick around for awhile to determine if the composition changes between the upper and lower layers.

I don't know how effectively Spirit can do that with her RAT worn out. Brushing is good, but it doesn't remove weathering rinds.

Might be worth a try, though.

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post May 28 2007, 02:28 PM
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Check out the tabular rock to the left of center here. Looks like Spirit knocked off a top layer of the rock (visible on the left side of same), and there was a smear of dark soil in between them (still visible on top of the main rock). VERY interesting...



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post May 30 2007, 01:47 AM
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QUOTE (jvandriel @ May 27 2007, 08:13 AM) *
Here is the L7 panoramic view taken on Sol 1203.

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I wander through these threads with a sense of mystic wonder. How beautiful and evocative all this is.

Can imagine myself standing there, looking off to the horizon. The thin, stingingly cold air, whistles over these desert sands, a hollow, lonely song..................

What you folks at UMSF have done, with your expertise and love, is gold.

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post May 30 2007, 02:51 PM
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Let's also thank the good people at JPL who are managing our mission... wink.gif
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post May 30 2007, 08:51 PM
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QUOTE (Oersted @ May 30 2007, 10:51 AM) *
Let's also thank the good people at JPL who are managing our mission... wink.gif



OH.......that goes without saying. To all those who snip the hardware, plan the trajectories, pour their lives into these missions and make them real.... thank you!!!!!!

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post May 30 2007, 10:45 PM
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Spirit moved south today, driving along the rocky edge of Home Plate.

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post May 31 2007, 12:18 AM
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Spirit's approximate placement on sol 1210 (probably off by a little bit)

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post May 31 2007, 02:52 AM
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Alan, that false-color mosaic from May 27 is flat-out georgous!

All those layers--the pages of a book I would very much like to read.
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post May 31 2007, 04:19 PM
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A polar projection made with the latest navcam images (from sol 1210).

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I'm wondering if they are planning to study this whole edge of HP in small steps like the last one or will just study this corner and then really enter the bowl.
Probably we will have to wait for some fresh news on the next TPS MER Update (should be online today or tomorrow).
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Here is what's said on the TPS MER Update:

"We're very slowly climbing up onto Home Plate, and along the way doing remote sensing and IDD measurements of the several different layers that make up the eastern part of this plateau," he added. "We're going to cut across caddy-corner the topographic contours rather than climbing straight up." Depending on what Spirit finds, the rover should be up on top of Home Plate sometime next week or the week after that.

From there, it all depends really on what Spirit sees. "The general desire is to stay on top of Home Plate, but follow the outcrop exposures around to the portion that everybody really wants to get to -- the far end or southwestern portion of Home Plate,"
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