Solander Point, Sol 3387 - 3511 (August 4, 2013 - December 12, 2013) Options

[jvandriel]

Sol 3389 the Navcam panoramic view.

Jan van Driel

[jvandriel]

and the last one.

Sol 3389. Looking back.

Jan van Driel

[Tesheiner]

Here's part of a "post-drive" navcam mosaic shot on sol 3410.

[jvandriel]

The Navcam L0 panoramic view on Sol 3410.

Jan van Driel

[mhoward]

"Coal Island", Sol 3412. After taking these Pancam images she turned around and advanced slightly toward the target.

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[serpens]

So is "Coal Island" the outcrop of what, from a distance, looks as if it could be more vesicular basalt, or the transition from planar to cross stratified laminae in the left image?

[jvandriel]

Sol 3412 the L0 navcam view.

Jan van Driel

[Phil Stooke]

This is the sol 3410 panorama posted by jvandriel (Thanks!) in a circular version. It gives a nice view of the tracks and surrounding features.

Phil

[Phil Stooke]

Another circular view from jvandriel's nice panoramas - this is sol 3407.

Phil

[charborob]

Two sol 3415 MI images stitched together:

[charborob]

Sol 3416 pancam mosaic (Coal Island):

[atomoid]

they seem to be doing some stereo imaging by pitching the camera vertically.. a new technique? i hadn't noticed this before. I rotated the images ccw with shadows down here as that goes easier on the eyes at least for these Sol 3415 crosseyes.

i see 'leg-o-lamb' on the left ?!

[Phil Stooke]

False color (very false) of the scarp from sol 3417. Interesting little 'red' pebbles here and there. Not really red of course.

Phil

[atomoid]

A few more interesting cross-eyes (ccw90 rotated)
Sol3378--> mudface Sol3380--> Sol3380-->

[fredk]

I'm sure many of us were surprized at how close we got to Mulla Mulla. It turns out it really was a close call. From the latest PS update:

While navigating the boulder field in mid-August, Opportunity apparently came frighteningly close to running into a boulder called Mulla Mulla. "It was a near miss," said Bill Nelson... "We could have easily collided with the rock and damaged the rover. Through sheer luck, we didn't."

As it turned out, Opportunity didn't even so much suffer a scrape... But it might have been mission catastrophic... and it happened because of human error. "This is an operational error and it's a big deal," said Callas. As a result, the incident generated what is known as an Incident Surprise Anomaly (ISA) report. "We want to thoroughly understand why our process didn't catch it, because it should have.

The issue stemmed from a mis-positioning of the 'keep out' zone around the rock. "In hindsight, if you look at it, you go - 'Oh yeah that 'keep out' zone wasn't positioned correctly.' But no one caught that," Callas said.

Yikes!