Erebus Options

[Tman]

Get ten people to do 5 mins each, or five people to do 10 mins. I've transcribed interviews before and would happily transcribe 5/10 mins. Just say from when to when.

Yeayeayeayea, that would be great!!! Especially for those which have some difficulties in English translation like me which have to consult many words.

[Tesheiner]

TheChemist,

Greece is on Mars too.

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632 p0605.01 10 0 0 10 0 20 navcam_5x1_az_0_1_bpp
632 p0705.03 10 0 0 10 0 20 navcam_5x1_az_180_3_bpp
632 p1201.03 2 0 0 2 0 4 front_haz_penultimate_1_bpp_crit16
632 p1214.05 2 0 0 2 0 4 front_haz_ultimate_4bpp_pri15
632 p1315.02 2 0 0 2 0 4 rear_hazcam_ultimate_0.5_bpp_pri_34
632 p2093.01 7 7 0 0 2 16 pancam_cal_targ_L257R1267
632 p2414.06 14 0 0 14 2 30 pancam_Kalambaka_L257R1267
632 p2415.06 14 0 0 14 2 30 pancam_2x1_Ellas_L257R1267
632 p2600.07 2 2 0 0 2 6 pancam_tau
632 p2600.07 2 2 0 0 2 6 pancam_tau
632 p2600.07 2 2 0 0 2 6 pancam_tau
632 p2630.01 56 2 54 0 2 114 pancam_saw_skysurvey_L4578R2478
632 p2651.06 5 5 0 0 1 11 pancam_dust_devil_hunter_L6

[odave]

Get ten people to do 5 mins each...

I'll sign up to do a chunk too...

[TheChemist]

Greece is on Mars too. 
632 p2414.06 14  0  0  14  2  30  pancam_Kalambaka_L257R1267
632 p2415.06 14  0  0  14  2  30  pancam_2x1_Ellas_L257R1267

Schiaparelli was very font of classical mythology, and Antoniadi was Greek
Have these two features been identified on actual images ?

[Tesheiner]

Not yet.
We are currently on sol 632 (15:50 Local Time) at Meridiani and no picture has been downlinked yet for tosol.

[Bob Shaw]

Now that's a wonderful rock garden ...  And the best is yet to come 
In your 2nd image, mhoward, it looks like something fell right in the middle of the outcrop from high above 
Or someone set a camp fire ?? 

Edit: Or both simultaneously 

I thought that was just a joking comment until I had a good look at it, and by golly it really *does* look like something fell out of the sky. What it looks like to me is the sort of spread of debris from a highly friable clump, like a lump of (wait for it) wet sand. So: is there any mechanism, such as liquid CO2/water ice 'burps', which might account for a plug in the form of a loose clump of material being sent skyward, and landing with a velocity measured in no more than a few hundred MPH? And, if we've really spotted a strange impactor at last, then it neatly explains the mini-craters, too...

Bob Shaw

[Tesheiner]

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I wonder if they'll stop around here, or just blow by this place.  I just hope they take a lot of pictures along the way, if they don't want to dally with other observations.
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Tosol (632) is planned as driving day too.

... and that drive was just to place the rover near the "camp fire".

http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportu...00P0705L0M1.JPG
http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportu...00P0705L0M1.JPG

Look how finely cracked is the outcrop below the debris.

[Burmese]

Of note, this spot is hardly the only one with a large collection of cobbles, as can be seen when the rover looks over it's left shoulder:

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P0605L0M1.JPG

[mhoward]

Oh thank goodness, they finally incremented the site number and reset the drive number. Life is good!

Wow, I love the drifts. Let's get some pancams of the rim, please.

[mhoward]

Here is a "top" view of Sol 632 in MMB. North is approximately up in this picture.



What I found particularly interesting was the "bullethole in glass" pattern in front of the rover. Small but high-velocity impact?

[Marz]

Any speculation as to what the line of white pebbles are in the foreground? Look just left of the antenna mast, and you'll see a segment of "vertebra" that seems to be embedded in the evaporite.

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P0605R0M1.JPG

Has this kind of feature been seen before?

[Guest_Sunspot_*]

Probably scuff marks from the wheels.

[RNeuhaus]

Indeed, these marks are of rover's wheel. An attention has brought me up is that inside of the outcrop is even whiter than on the surface. That outcrop surface Looks like a chalk.

Rodolfo

[Bob Shaw]

Here is a "top" view of Sol 632 in MMB. North is approximately up in this picture.



What I found particularly interesting was the "bullethole in glass" pattern in front of the rover. Small but high-velocity impact?

Or an artefact of the image manipulation process? There might be similar textures within the fuzzier peripheral areas, too...

Bob Shaw

[mhoward]

Or an artefact of the image manipulation process? There might be similar textures within the fuzzier peripheral areas, too...

Bob Shaw

Here is the navcam frame for your consideration.

Another view.