Goodbye Victoria, The long trek has started |
Goodbye Victoria, The long trek has started |
Oct 18 2008, 08:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Have a look to this mosaic; it will probably be one of the lasts to include Victoria on sight.
Sol 1983 was driving day, about 47m SSW. And you know what? Like on many previous driving sols, "post-drive" images were taken (navcams here) including a pancam mosaic called "drive_dir" and that one is NOT headed towards the next capes but to the SOUTH (-160º actually). So, I would say that we are leaving Victoria for good! |
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Oct 18 2008, 08:48 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Steve's Pan Position C is not out of the question yet.
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Oct 18 2008, 09:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
I would bet a dinner.
Look for a short (5m or so) bump on sol 1683 for a new LBS imaging attempt immediately followed by a long, L-O-N-G drive. And as for direction, think SSW for a while to come. This SSW figure is very VERY consistent with the heading of the "drive direction" pancam mosaic. And one of the "exits" (referring to the terrain analysis maps) from Victoria's vicinity is about on that heading. |
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Oct 18 2008, 09:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 408 Joined: 3-August 05 Member No.: 453 |
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Oct 18 2008, 09:22 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Oct 18 2008, 09:25 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
> Either those are not the "ultimate" images ...
They are. |
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Oct 18 2008, 09:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
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Oct 18 2008, 09:57 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Anaglyph and - I think - appropriate quote to go with it...
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Oct 18 2008, 10:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
Anaglyph and - I think - appropriate quote to go with it... Nice. Alternatively you could have used the lyrics to the theme tune from that early 90s TV show about the mountie. |
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Oct 18 2008, 11:03 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
SING ALONG!
[UMSFers:] There's a sad sort of leaving Victoria, its capes and cliffs And a soup dragon too And down here on Earth an insignificant little cookie Is popping out to say "cuckoo" [UMSFers:] Cuckoo, cuckoo Regretfully they tell us Cuckoo, cuckoo But firmly they compel us Cuckoo, cuckoo To say goodbye . . . [Doug:] Cuckoo! [UMSFers:] . . . to you [UMSFers:] So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night [Opportunity:] I hate to go and leave this pretty sight [UMSFers:] So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu [Opportunity:] Adieu, adieu, to beacon, Verde and Pigafetta too [UMSFers:] So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen [Opportunity:] I'd like to stay and taste one more sulfate [UMSFers:] So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye [Opportunity:] I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye -- Goodbye! I'm glad to go, I cannot tell a lie I've stucked, I've fled, I freely roll, I rove! The road is long, Endeavour is at sight [Children:] So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye [Oppy and UMSFers:] Goodbye! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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Oct 18 2008, 11:24 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
"Nice. Alternatively you could have used the lyrics to the theme tune from that early 90s TV show about the mountie."
Yessss... "I'm an anaglyph and I'm all right, I'm two-dimensional all day and 3D at night" Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Oct 19 2008, 02:34 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
So, Rui -- "The crater's alive with the sound of music"?
Or "How do you stop a rover like our Oppy?" Or even "Carbonates, carbonates, our instruments cannot see them..." -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Oct 19 2008, 03:04 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
...well done, esteemed Special Cookie Monster! Your creativity indeed is boundless...
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 19 2008, 09:01 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2917 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
it will probably be one of the lasts to include Victoria on sight. I also bet a dinner that even once we'll arrive at Endeavour, most of us will try to find Victoria in the pancam shots -------------------- |
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Oct 19 2008, 10:12 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
This is the pancam mosaic of drive direction images from the latest position. I have stretched it vertically to show near-horizon detail more clearly. Clearly visible at the middle is a smooth patch, with large drifts to its right (west in this south-looking view). I am having trouble matching individual features to HiRISE, but it looks like the smooth area must be the western one of the three 'exits'. That's my preferred exit anyway so I hope they use it!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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