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Goodbye Victoria, The long trek has started
Tesheiner
post Oct 18 2008, 08:40 PM
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Have a look to this mosaic; it will probably be one of the lasts to include Victoria on sight.
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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! biggrin.gif
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post Oct 18 2008, 08:48 PM
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Steve's Pan Position C is not out of the question yet.
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post Oct 18 2008, 09:03 PM
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I would bet a dinner. wink.gif

QUOTE (Airbag @ Oct 18 2008, 10:39 PM) *
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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post Oct 18 2008, 09:18 PM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Oct 18 2008, 03:40 PM) *
Sol 1983 was driving day, about 47m SSW.


Either those are not the "ultimate" images or something happened, as the plan was for a much longer drive...maybe even a record length one. Well, time will tell!

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post Oct 18 2008, 09:22 PM
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Bye Bye Victoria - it was nice to see you but I've got to be going...

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post Oct 18 2008, 09:25 PM
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> Either those are not the "ultimate" images ...
They are.
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post Oct 18 2008, 09:28 PM
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Sol 1683 QuickTime VR (3.5 MB)
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post Oct 18 2008, 09:57 PM
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Anaglyph and - I think - appropriate quote to go with it...


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post Oct 18 2008, 10:04 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 18 2008, 10:57 PM) *
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. laugh.gif
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post Oct 18 2008, 11:03 PM
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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!
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Phil Stooke
post Oct 18 2008, 11:24 PM
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"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"

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post Oct 19 2008, 02:34 AM
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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..."

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post Oct 19 2008, 03:04 AM
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laugh.gif ...well done, esteemed Special Cookie Monster! Your creativity indeed is boundless...


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post Oct 19 2008, 09:01 AM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Oct 18 2008, 10:40 PM) *
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 pancam.gif smile.gif


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Phil Stooke
post Oct 19 2008, 10:12 PM
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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

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