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[climber]

I understand that the answer will be known before superior conjuction.
After discovering the first image released from MRO and comments, I realize that it'll need MRO two orbits to capture all Victoria since the ground track of Hirise is smaller than the diameter of Victoria crater. CORRECTED : the first image released is smaller than the diameter of Victoria crater. Somebody said that MRO has about the same resolution as Oppy on the far rim. All of this is amazing to say the less.
This mean that, "our" image's wizards could simulate what we'll see in a few days. For the others, like myself, we can only tell it.
1-Will Oppy be visible in details? I'm concerned by the brightness of the solar panels (better shot now before cleaning events ).
2-how will we see her tracks?
3-Ema Dean & Beagle will be the only realy known places
4-we can see a lot of boulders inside VC. Which will be the smaller we'll see?
5-will we see the rocks inside Duck Bay crater?
...more

Let me try a bet : we'll see Oppy's shadow.

[djellison]

No - if targetted well - HiRISE can get the whole Opportunity traverse + Victoria in one swathe - 6km width, 18km length (with 20k x 60k pixels).

However....

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/lofiver....php/t1010.html

Basically - with perfect pixels... http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...hirise_oppy.jpg

I'd expect to see something not that good - but between that and the CPROTO res image I did as well.

Time to go to Valencia

Doug