[X] My Assistant

[Phil Stooke]

I thought this subject might deserve its own topic. John-s made several matches between features seen in Spirit images south of Husband Hill. Then I suggested that a specific feature seen in those pans (I provide an approximately reprojected map-geometry version of the pan) might be Home Plate:



Object B is what i think is Home Plate. The flanks but not the summit of Ramon Hill appear beyond it.

There might be some errors in my attempted matches, but many seem good to me. It's quite hard to reconcile panoramic and overhead topography in this way, even towards Bonneville.

I would really welcome any other attempts to match features like this, to see if we can resolve the question... if B in the pan is not Home Plate, what is it?

Phil

[general]

Feature "I" - as I see it:

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[fredk]

Phil, here's my take on this. Thanks for getting me started!

Identified features are indicated with the same colour on my two images (one borrowed from you).

I started with the famous "RU" dune pattern. It's interesting that we are only just starting to see the largest of the dunes down there (white arrow).

Then I moved farther out. Red, yellow, green, black, and blue features I'm very confident of. (The bigger crater NE of the red pair is visible in other rover imagery).

Orange, cyan, and grey I'm less confident of (I thought perhaps cyan should instead be grey on swplains.jpg).

Regardless, we still have a ways to go to see homeplate. Also, homeplate is closer than the feature you initially ID'd, so, especially with pancam, the view should blow us away, if a dustdevil doesn't first!

Fred.

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