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 Sep 10 2005, 02:37 AM
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QUOTE (stevo @ Sep 9 2005, 06:18 PM) IThat rock must be fairly soft if the wheels are making marks on it. Or is that just the rind ?  The outcrop looks somewhat harder than a dry mud. It might be hardened by billions years without water and having a very dry weather. Rodolfo |
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Sep 10 2005, 03:21 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3009 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
Remember, Oppy's right wheel has the bad steering actuator and that is the wheel that was "dragging" across the rock with the marks. May be nothing, we'll see what other images come down from this spot.
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Sep 12 2005, 10:01 AM
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http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...84P2275L1M1.JPG
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...84P2275R1M1.JPG http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...84P2275R2M1.JPG Sol 572, panoramic camera -- and I'm sure I saw several more images of whatever this is a few sols earlier, noticed while watching my updates come in. I can't find the images at JPL, these numbers are captured from MMBrowser. Anyone else noticed this odd looking little thing? Closeup attached from a screenshot.
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Sep 12 2005, 10:54 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3009 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...topic=1279&st=0
See Post #17 and following posts. This is a classic optical illusion and a good reason why anything "odd" needs to be looked at closely.  "BT,DT" --Bill -------------------- |
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Sep 23 2005, 02:18 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 63 Joined: 4-May 05 Member No.: 378 |
Can someone explain this one ?
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P2213L2M1.JPG I swear, it looks like a deflated beach ball, or one of those chocolate orange things... -------------------- Popper: A party entertainment, filled with confetti and a small explosive charge.
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Sep 23 2005, 02:24 PM
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Airbag mark ... that image is 19 months (or so) old.
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Sep 23 2005, 02:29 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 63 Joined: 4-May 05 Member No.: 378 |
Ah, I wondered about that. Not so far off a beach ball
-------------------- Popper: A party entertainment, filled with confetti and a small explosive charge.
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Sep 23 2005, 02:29 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4280 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Yesterday, a lot of pictures part of the "mission success" panorama (is the naming correct?) were downloaded again. I was surprised to realize that they are still stored into the flash memory.
What's the reason to download them again, if they are indicated as *complete* here on earth? I may have a guess... 
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Sep 23 2005, 02:29 PM
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The image is from Sol 3. The real mystery is why images from earlier sols are showing up on Exploratorium. Could they actually have been in the rover's memory for this long?
Edit: Oops, too slow. |
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Sep 23 2005, 04:35 PM
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-------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Sep 23 2005, 04:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
3D crossed-eyes/anaglyph versions.
The big BB in the center/extreme left is 2.5cm wide! -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Sep 23 2005, 05:00 PM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Sep 23 2005, 02:29 PM) Yesterday, a lot of pictures part of the "mission success" panorama (is the naming correct?) were downloaded again. I was surprised to realize that they are still stored into the flash memory. I noticed that the JPL site had a whole bunch of heatshield MIs come down from way back when. Though it was fascinating to have a look at them again.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Sep 23 2005, 05:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 350 Joined: 20-June 04 From: Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Member No.: 86 |
Most of these old images had pieces missing, so I figure that JPL just never downloaded them because they had plenty of complete images of the same basic areas and there was no reason to waste the time..
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Sep 23 2005, 05:36 PM
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Wow! New stunning image from Oppy!
 Great finding, Dilo!! And new strange features ... Sol 592: 
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Sep 23 2005, 05:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 688 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 273 |
QUOTE (dilo @ Sep 23 2005, 06:35 PM) The layers are rather strongly inclined here, probably as a result of the Erebus impact. Upended stratigraphy is common around impact craters. As for the download of "historic" images, the rovers have plenty of power at the moment and Mars is close enough to Earth to permit increasing the bit-rate for the HGA, so I suppose every corner of the Flash is being cleaned out. It probably works like a HDD, everything stays around until You overwrite it.  tty |
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