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Arrival At Etched Terrain
Burmese
post Aug 4 2005, 01:09 PM
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Well, with Oppy on solid ground now I think we can say she has officially arrived at the Etched terrain.

On a side note, is it my imagination, or is the dust in the air clearing a lot the past few days? I haven't seen a shot this clear in ages...or perhaps this etched terrain is on slightly higher ground than the surround sea of dunes?

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post Aug 31 2005, 03:34 PM
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Yes, but see that Oppy still has to dodge a lot dunes on the way to the Highway.

Actually, she is now facing NE (check the pancam images on mhoward's post) so it seems that the MER team are planning some zig-zag.

This is what I think is a possible path to the highway, superimposed on sol 569 navcam panorama (heavily compressed).
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- Burmese   Arrival At Etched Terrain   Aug 4 2005, 01:09 PM
- - MahFL   Oppy should be able to traverse more quickly over ...   Aug 4 2005, 01:22 PM
- - Tesheiner   > Oppy should be able to traverse more quickly ...   Aug 4 2005, 01:30 PM
- - RNeuhaus   I see that around there, etched terrain, there are...   Aug 4 2005, 02:55 PM
- - Richard Trigaux   With my opinion Erebus, like Bonneville, is not a ...   Aug 5 2005, 09:50 AM
|- - DEChengst   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Aug 5 2005, 11:50 AM...   Aug 6 2005, 04:48 PM
- - Bill Harris   Erebus is potentially an important target since it...   Aug 5 2005, 10:47 AM
|- - Cugel   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Aug 5 2005, 10:47 AM)Ere...   Aug 5 2005, 11:03 PM
- - TheChemist   Let's see what the science instruments tell us...   Aug 5 2005, 11:44 AM
- - Bill Harris   There may be dune fields, but there is also the ev...   Aug 6 2005, 01:34 AM
- - Richard Trigaux   Bill, the evaporite pavement near Erebus is alre...   Aug 6 2005, 08:22 AM
|- - dilo   New PanCam images! This is the full-res stitch...   Aug 6 2005, 02:25 PM
|- - Jeff7   QUOTE (dilo @ Aug 6 2005, 09:25 AM)New PanCam...   Aug 6 2005, 05:16 PM
|- - um3k   QUOTE (Jeff7 @ Aug 6 2005, 01:16 PM)Yikes, so...   Aug 6 2005, 10:57 PM
|- - Jeff7   QUOTE (um3k @ Aug 6 2005, 05:57 PM)The same n...   Aug 7 2005, 01:36 AM
- - Vladimorka   And we have a RAT - the first RAT in many months...   Aug 6 2005, 04:13 PM
- - deglr6328   QUOTE (Vladimorka @ Aug 6 2005, 04:13 PM)And ...   Aug 6 2005, 11:15 PM
- - babakm   What previously appeared like outcrops on the Sout...   Aug 7 2005, 03:45 PM
- - Sunspot   On the move again: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov...   Aug 10 2005, 11:58 PM
- - Bill Harris   Whew. Look at the Sol 549 MI's of the RAT hol...   Aug 11 2005, 02:24 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Aug 11 2005, 02:24 AM)Wh...   Aug 11 2005, 02:36 AM
- - Decepticon   I wish they would clean out they holes they just f...   Aug 11 2005, 02:48 AM
- - deglr6328   I don't think they CAN clean it out. The stuff...   Aug 11 2005, 02:56 AM
- - mike   It's not necessarily all that soft.. if it wer...   Aug 11 2005, 05:29 AM
|- - dilo   Now it seems she fully reached the highway!......   Aug 11 2005, 05:58 AM
- - deglr6328   Oo-ee, gooey, rich and chewy inside... Golden, fla...   Aug 11 2005, 05:34 AM
|- - dvandorn   Now, there's an interesting new perspective on...   Aug 11 2005, 05:41 AM
- - Tesheiner   Near this point: (Original navcam picture from so...   Aug 11 2005, 07:45 AM
- - Bill Harris   QUOTE Help me out here. I always enjoy a good weir...   Aug 11 2005, 08:45 AM
- - Sunspot   They might have used the RAT again on the same hol...   Aug 11 2005, 09:08 AM
- - TheChemist   It does not look deeper though ... Gee, two sols o...   Aug 11 2005, 09:39 AM
- - Bill Harris   And if you look closely you can see some of the RA...   Aug 11 2005, 12:28 PM
- - djellison   It's the same hole for sure - but wow - lot of...   Aug 11 2005, 12:48 PM
|- - garybeau   It looks to me like they went back in with the bru...   Aug 11 2005, 10:43 PM
- - mike   Yeah, in hindsight NASA has surely brushed at leas...   Aug 12 2005, 12:59 AM
- - djellison   Back in with a brush and made it filthy? I dont t...   Aug 12 2005, 06:48 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 12 2005, 07:48 AM)Back...   Aug 12 2005, 09:53 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 12 2005, 06:48 AM)Back...   Aug 14 2005, 09:34 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 14 2005, 10:34 PM)QUOT...   Aug 14 2005, 09:41 PM
- - Bill Harris   I'll have to stand over in the confused side o...   Aug 12 2005, 10:44 AM
- - djellison   Strange crack in the terrain - http://marsrovers...   Aug 13 2005, 06:27 PM
|- - dilo   QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 13 2005, 06:27 PM)Stra...   Aug 13 2005, 08:27 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   Dilo: Very interesting - a sort of limestone pave...   Aug 13 2005, 09:01 PM
- - jvandriel   A 360 degree panoramic view of Opportunity in the ...   Aug 13 2005, 06:47 PM
- - Myran   QUOTE djellison said: Strange crack in the terrain...   Aug 13 2005, 09:18 PM
|- - dilo   Starting from Jvandriel last Pano, I made a magnif...   Aug 13 2005, 11:32 PM
||- - tty   QUOTE (dilo @ Aug 14 2005, 01:32 AM)It seems ...   Aug 14 2005, 06:04 PM
|- - RNeuhaus   QUOTE (Myran @ Aug 13 2005, 04:18 PM)There su...   Aug 15 2005, 02:06 PM
- - Bill Harris   QUOTE It seems they form an (approximately) orthog...   Aug 14 2005, 09:10 PM
- - TheChemist   Any information for the total lack of images from ...   Aug 15 2005, 12:47 PM
- - djellison   I guess we'll see with the next update at JPL ...   Aug 15 2005, 01:00 PM
|- - Sunspot   QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 15 2005, 02:00 PM)I gu...   Aug 15 2005, 01:05 PM
|- - Burmese   QUOTE (Sunspot @ Aug 15 2005, 08:05 AM)The od...   Aug 15 2005, 02:14 PM
- - jvandriel   A panoramic view on Sol 553. Taken with the L2 Pa...   Aug 15 2005, 08:54 PM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (jvandriel @ Aug 15 2005, 10:54 PM)A pa...   Aug 16 2005, 10:39 AM
|- - dilo   Jvandriel, I combined the last two panoramas you m...   Aug 16 2005, 08:06 PM
- - Tesheiner   Came to the same conclusion too. Even outcrops th...   Aug 17 2005, 06:29 AM
- - jvandriel   Dilo, great combos. I have no problems with usin...   Aug 17 2005, 11:03 AM
- - Tesheiner   An updated status report on MER website: OPPORTUN...   Aug 19 2005, 09:34 AM
- - Jeff7   Can we like, launch a 4GB memory stick to Mars? Th...   Aug 20 2005, 05:45 AM
|- - tedstryk   Of course, there would have to be some way to get ...   Aug 20 2005, 12:47 PM
- - ilbasso   I volunteer to go pick it up! Can I pick up a...   Aug 20 2005, 12:52 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (ilbasso @ Aug 20 2005, 12:52 PM)Can I ...   Aug 20 2005, 03:56 PM
- - mhoward   Here's a great view back the way we came on So...   Aug 20 2005, 04:07 PM
- - glennwsmith   mhoward: That IS amazing -- I didn't realize t...   Aug 21 2005, 04:16 AM
|- - mhoward   QUOTE (glennwsmith @ Aug 21 2005, 04:16 AM)Pe...   Aug 21 2005, 05:26 AM
- - Tman   Yea they released sometime this grafic in a PDF: h...   Aug 21 2005, 07:49 AM
- - Burmese   How did they get such a detailed profile? There a...   Aug 22 2005, 12:46 PM
- - djellison   MOLA could do something like that - 250m sampling...   Aug 22 2005, 12:51 PM
- - Tesheiner   With Spirit now near/at the summit, the news about...   Aug 23 2005, 01:19 PM
|- - avkillick   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Aug 23 2005, 06:19 AM)http...   Aug 23 2005, 03:06 PM
- - dot.dk   QUOTE (avkillick @ Aug 23 2005, 03:06 PM)I...   Aug 23 2005, 03:24 PM
- - mike   It isn't like what I'd expect on Earth.. ...   Aug 23 2005, 03:28 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Right, no moisture, no sticking. And yet some fol...   Aug 23 2005, 07:48 PM
- - djellison   I know where and what you mean Phil "There ...   Aug 23 2005, 07:58 PM
- - mike   There have been some images where the upturned dus...   Aug 23 2005, 09:30 PM
|- - Marslauncher   http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P23...   Aug 24 2005, 12:10 PM
- - Bill Harris   Oppy has been driving up a topographic high for a ...   Aug 24 2005, 03:55 PM
- - jvandriel   A 360 degree panoramic view of Opportunity. Taken...   Aug 27 2005, 02:17 PM
- - SigurRosFan   Nice panorama! That's my version of your p...   Aug 29 2005, 10:16 AM
- - Phil Stooke   I have made another version of jvandriel's new...   Aug 29 2005, 01:09 PM
|- - RNeuhaus   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Aug 29 2005, 08:09 AM)I ...   Aug 29 2005, 03:45 PM
- - Bill Harris   Oppy does not appear to be dead-- she's transf...   Aug 30 2005, 12:56 AM
|- - jamescanvin   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Aug 30 2005, 10:56 AM)On...   Aug 30 2005, 01:39 AM
- - Bill Harris   Ah! That's right, I remember that maneuv...   Aug 30 2005, 05:50 AM
- - peter59   Drive on sol 569 planned. Opportunity is OK, I hop...   Aug 30 2005, 11:17 AM
- - Sunspot   ....stumble, skidmark, wreckage? lol... what...   Aug 30 2005, 12:45 PM
- - Tesheiner   Different features seen on the bedrock, I would sa...   Aug 30 2005, 01:09 PM
- - djellison   'Skidmark' is probably the point at which ...   Aug 30 2005, 01:14 PM
- - ilbasso   "Skidmark" could also be used to describ...   Aug 30 2005, 07:46 PM
- - Myran   Seems the engineers consider that some problem wit...   Aug 30 2005, 07:59 PM
- - mhoward   Nice view off onto the plains: Sol 569 Pancam mosa...   Aug 31 2005, 01:00 AM
- - Bill Harris   And it seems that the dark "un-dune-y" a...   Aug 31 2005, 08:52 AM
- - Tesheiner   Yes, but see that Oppy still has to dodge a lot du...   Aug 31 2005, 03:34 PM

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