Endeavour Crater, And again shall we conquer the Remoteness |
Endeavour Crater, And again shall we conquer the Remoteness |
Jun 30 2009, 03:59 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Can I give my input?
I was last week climbing in the french alps and went up to "Les Ecrins". Even if my view of "La Barre et le Dôme des Ecrins" is sideway, I found it remarkably close to Cook: Enjoy: -------------------- |
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Jun 30 2009, 09:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 279 Joined: 19-August 07 Member No.: 3299 |
Nice picture, It is evident, the snow is already melting. On the other hand, this mountain has a very big ripple. Any moment, there would have a snow mass falling.
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Jun 30 2009, 09:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
I don't want to continue OT but this is not only snow, this is a glaciar including 3 seracs. One of them partly broke up 3 weeks ago which obliged climbers to take a more direct path to the summit.
I'm realy wondering if we can get such a view when Oppy will get to Endeavour (if she even will get close to Cook). The actual height of the summit is around 1000 m above the place I took the picture. I'm a bit confused about the height of Cook relative to Endeavour floor. -------------------- |
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Jul 20 2009, 10:48 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 281 |
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Jul 20 2009, 01:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 293 Joined: 22-September 08 From: Spain Member No.: 4350 |
Well, Oppy may be a little turtle, but after roving all this time now she can see the clay goal over the hill.
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Jul 20 2009, 02:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
Woohoo! Don't want to say I told you so, but...
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&p=69014 OK, I didn't mention clays... but I knew it wasn't more of this sandstone! |
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Jul 20 2009, 04:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
Looks like clays ahead. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0907/19opportunity/ Wow! I think a lot of us were hoping for something like this, but this is a pretty amazing announcement. Let's hope she can get there. |
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Jul 20 2009, 09:49 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Hmm. I wonder if this will have an immediate effect on traverse planning? Clays are a pretty high-value target; she just might be doing fewer opportunistic (sorry) science stops enroute.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we've seen nothing radically different for quite some time. The cobbles seem to be the most enigmatic things, and many of them seem to be meteorites; is there any compelling reason at this point not to accelerate the effort to reach Endeavour? -------------------- 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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Jul 20 2009, 10:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
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Aug 27 2009, 09:44 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 25-August 09 Member No.: 4913 |
You know, it's been over a month and I haven't seen a single other article on this anywhere. Nothing on Space.com, spaceref.com, etc... I may have missed it but has this clay mission been confirmed? |
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Aug 28 2009, 02:54 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
I think we can barely see a new part of Endeavour in these navcams just on the left of "Cook": http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...G6P1994L0M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...NVP1994L0M1.JPG Waiting for pancams. The wait is over. I believe this is the first pancam view of those new very subtle features: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...C7P2401L6M1.JPG |
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Aug 30 2009, 01:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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Aug 30 2009, 02:36 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10153 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Very nice image! Thanks.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Aug 31 2009, 12:43 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 258 Joined: 22-December 06 Member No.: 1503 |
Wow! Even though I know it is a vertical exaggeration, I'm still salivating.
Will we actually get there? My assumption is yes. Given the slow degradation of certain parts of oppy what equipment will still work when we arrive? I'm especially excited about the clays that were identified from orbit. How much science will be available once we find a handful? |
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Aug 31 2009, 04:32 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 25-August 09 Member No.: 4913 |
I hear you! I'm more excited about Oppy than I have been in years. I'd love to get more info on the clays exact locations, but so far the only article I could find was the spaceflighttoday article.
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