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Final Approach, First good views of Victoria

Stu View Member Profile	Sep 19 2006, 04:03 PM Post #1
The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60	Well, what does everyone think of our long-awaited first view..? -------------------- Homepage Astropoetry "Cumbrian Sky" blog "Road to Endeavour" blog

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hendric View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 06:51 AM Post #91
Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93	OMG!! Squee!! Squee!!! pantpant* Whew, did it just get hot in here or what? That Victoria girl, she is HOT!! -- Still waiting on those Card Carrying Mars Widow cards. Maybe the caption would be "Mars Widow: Find my SO at www.unmannedspaceflight.com" with Spirit's panorama on one side, and the upcoming Victoria pan on the other. -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks -- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality.

Astro0 View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 07:00 AM Post #92
Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615	James, Perhaps 'DTE' could stand for "Damn That Errata". It's been a busy day for Mars comms. We were two-way on MER1 when I left my message. MGS has got its problems at the moment. We're getting closer to conjunction. Makes it all very interesting for us, just as things are getting interesting on Mars. Astro0

MichaelT View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 07:24 AM Post #93
Member Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 18-March 05 From: Germany Member No.: 211	Wow! I'm totally amazed about the details of the far rim that are already visible from this location! What a great view there is ahead of us in a few days! Thanks to everyone for the exceptionally good image processing (as always ). Michael

Reckless View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 08:20 AM Post #94
Member Group: Members Posts: 221 Joined: 25-March 05 Member No.: 217	Great pictures James. The pancam pics will be brilliant. This morning in the Channel Islands we had an island wide power cut and I thought just my luck that oppy will have sneaked up to the edge and the pictures will be flooding in but power is returning all is well on this exciting day and Hendric Squee indeed. Roy F

ustrax View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 09:27 AM Post #95
Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra \| Portugal Member No.: 228	QUOTE (Nix @ Sep 19 2006, 11:08 PM) Some more PTgui-Photoshop Mambo-Jambo I wish we could share these first views in person guys, we're in for a good time -'been a long ride.. Nico My wish too Nico... Indeed a long long ride, but worthy, wasn't it? Keep that Mambo-Jambo coming! Great work james! Damn!...I'm happy! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!" Edgar Alan Poe

ngunn View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 09:38 AM Post #96
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542	A big thanks to everybody here for the steady stream of up-to-the-minute news and images. My new class of GCSE Astronomy students started yesterday evening and they were thrilled to see the first Victoria pictures, including the first anaglyph, being posted here in 'real time' during their 2 hour session. Fortunately we have a nice big screen and a couple of pairs of 3D specs to pass round. (I think I should order a few more pairs for the coming days and weeks!)

jaredGalen View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 10:35 AM Post #97
Member Group: Members Posts: 257 Joined: 18-December 04 Member No.: 123	In the Amstel tradition......"This is gonna be great!" -------------------- Turn the middle side topwise....TOPWISE!!

Stu

Sep 20 2006, 10:50 AM

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Toma B View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 11:11 AM Post #99
Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384	I knew you would look lovely Victoria...well this looks like the beginning of the beautiful friendship... -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr...

climber View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 12:04 PM Post #100
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2924 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682	--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toma B @ Sep 20 2006, 01:11 PM) </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> I knew you would look lovely Victoria...well this looks like the beginning of the beautiful friendship... [/quote] Any allusion to these words ? http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&p=56795 -------------------- My Blog

Aberdeenastro View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 12:04 PM Post #101
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 64 Joined: 24-May 06 From: Aberdeen, Scotland Member No.: 785	QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Sep 20 2006, 03:33 AM) Here is the far rim in JPL's navcam image compared with a 'straightened' far rim from orbit. [attachment=7529:attachment] James EDIT: Replaced with a slightly modified version James, That's a great piece of image work. Much neater than my earlier very quick attempt: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&p=68491 Castor

Tesheiner View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 12:48 PM Post #102
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4280 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253	QUOTE (climber @ Sep 19 2006, 10:22 PM) To put things in perspective, this remind me of Ordessa (Spain) : View 100 m from the "rim" : [attachment=7520:attachment] View from "Cape Verde" : [attachment=7521:attachment] Imagine we'll have the same contrast in a few days I'm expecting a BIG scene when we get to the exact rim, but not like Ordessa. That would be too much for the heart. OT: I was flying back from Frankfurt to Madrid two weeks ago, there was an absolutely clear sky and we crossed the Pirenees right by Gavarnie and Ordessa. Huge!

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Sep 20 2006, 04:13 PM

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Here's a contrast-boosted, 2x vertical stretched crop from the jpl navcam pan:

It shows the beacon outcrop quite clearly, and another feature that I've been curious about - the "sluffing slab". To me it looks like it may be a piece of the plains outside the rim that has detached and started sluffing into the crater. The orbital imagery doesn't have the resolution to show the slab clearly.

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 04:15 PM Post #104
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	-quote in reply removed- If you use your imagination, it looks like the debris in front of the Beacon is actually an arrow on the ground pointing to the slab, as if it were put there as a ramp so Opportunity could enter Victoria safely. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

JRehling View Member Profile	Sep 20 2006, 05:05 PM Post #105
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321	QUOTE (stevesliva @ Sep 19 2006, 11:04 AM) You have me imagining an amazing view from the far side. Yes, it looks like the far side would present an easier entrance (if any) and a more expansive view. It's interesting how clear the view across is. Not, obviously, as clear as long-range views on the Moon, but much less obscured than a summer post-dust storm sol. Spring was a good season to arrive. When it comes time to look north and perform TES of the north interior rim, I hope things are still as clear.

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