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fredk

Feb 22 2007, 08:49 PM

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Interesting blocky feature visible in the latest navcams (centred in this crop):

I've identified it orbitally - it's the block marked with the black arrow in this crop:

It appears to be at the exposed end of - dare I say it - a linear feature marked with white arrows in that crop.

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fredk The "Lump of Good Hope" Feb 22 2007, 08:49 PM

Gray Good observation noting the apparent linear featur... Feb 22 2007, 09:20 PM

dvandorn It's a little tough to say whether the feature... Feb 22 2007, 09:26 PM

dvandorn Looking at the features along this portion of the ... Feb 22 2007, 09:35 PM

ngunn QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 22 2007, 09:35 PM) ... Feb 23 2007, 04:02 PM

Tesheiner While waiting for today's batch of images from... Feb 23 2007, 11:01 AM

fredk QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Feb 23 2007, 11:01 AM)... Feb 23 2007, 04:26 PM

Tesheiner QUOTE (fredk @ Feb 23 2007, 05:26 PM) I... Feb 23 2007, 05:12 PM

Tesheiner Sol 1096 images are downlinked and available. Here... Feb 23 2007, 12:04 PM

WindyT QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Feb 23 2007, 12:04 PM)... Feb 23 2007, 02:53 PM

fredk QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Feb 23 2007, 12:04 PM)... Feb 23 2007, 07:33 PM

Stu Quick close-up... Feb 23 2007, 02:17 PM

Edward Schmitz Is anyone else curious about that lump on the next... Feb 23 2007, 04:34 PM

MarkL Its a very interesting lump indeed. Perhaps a sin... Feb 23 2007, 04:58 PM

MarkL You can see the Lump of Good Hope in the attached ... Feb 23 2007, 05:46 PM

WindyT QUOTE (MarkL @ Feb 23 2007, 05:46 PM) [..... Feb 23 2007, 07:16 PM

kenny [quote name='WindyT' date='Feb 23 2007... Feb 25 2007, 09:11 AM

fredk When I first posted on the blocky feature (I love ... Feb 23 2007, 07:20 PM

Stu The "Lump of Good Hope"?!?!?... Feb 23 2007, 07:34 PM

Stu Seems like a lot of interest in this newly-spotted... Feb 23 2007, 08:24 PM

ngunn Seems like a good idea to me but perhaps one of th... Feb 23 2007, 09:01 PM

Tesheiner Good idea to start a new thread on this. Have a lo... Feb 23 2007, 09:48 PM

fredk What look like cracks could be narrow "spills... Feb 24 2007, 02:55 AM

Bobby Mars Rover transform in this image to Transformer ... Feb 24 2007, 03:07 AM

CosmicRocker The lump appears to be either the largest ejecta b... Feb 24 2007, 03:43 AM

fredk Long baseline navcam views of the Lump, sols 1095 ... Feb 24 2007, 05:23 PM

Gray After looking at the anaglyph I'm not sure if ... Feb 24 2007, 06:12 PM

nprev Me neither. It almost looks like a spit pointed di... Feb 24 2007, 06:17 PM

CosmicRocker Hehe...one lump or two, or three? This thing has ... Feb 25 2007, 07:26 AM

Tesheiner There were two imaging sequences taken on sol 1097... Feb 25 2007, 02:33 PM

Edward Schmitz after seeing fredk lbl (thanks for that), it seems... Feb 26 2007, 04:49 AM

Edward Schmitz Another possible lump? I'm beginning to think... Feb 27 2007, 05:01 PM

Tesheiner QUOTE (Edward Schmitz @ Feb 27 2007, 06:0... Feb 27 2007, 05:37 PM

antoniseb I've been assuming that everything above the l... Feb 27 2007, 06:40 PM

dvandorn QUOTE (antoniseb @ Feb 27 2007, 12:40 PM)... Feb 27 2007, 07:46 PM

antoniseb QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 27 2007, 02:46 PM) ... Feb 27 2007, 08:10 PM

Gray antoniseb, Your question is very appropriate. The... Feb 27 2007, 07:06 PM

fredk Here's the sol 1100 pancam view of the top of ... Feb 27 2007, 08:35 PM

Tesheiner QUOTE (fredk @ Feb 27 2007, 09:35 PM) Apa... Mar 1 2007, 01:45 PM

Gray That is *quite* a dramatic view - worthy of a post... Feb 28 2007, 03:55 PM

Ant103 The view from Good Hope. And the traditional des... Feb 28 2007, 04:06 PM

antoniseb I'm a little surprised that there are no image... Feb 28 2007, 06:00 PM

Gray I was to see some images of the ?faulted? area too... Feb 28 2007, 06:35 PM

fredk The sol 1100 navcams show the area of the "li... Feb 28 2007, 06:59 PM

CosmicRocker Absolutely beautiful, Ant103. I wish I could spea... Mar 1 2007, 06:37 AM

fredk QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Mar 1 2007, 06:37 A... Mar 1 2007, 05:13 PM

djellison QUOTE (fredk @ Mar 1 2007, 05:13 PM) Tom,... Mar 1 2007, 05:23 PM

Gray fredk Thanks for pointing it out. I was looking f... Mar 1 2007, 02:27 PM

Tesheiner QUOTE (fredk @ Mar 1 2007, 06:13 PM) Shou... Mar 1 2007, 05:31 PM

CosmicRocker QUOTE (fredk @ Mar 1 2007, 11:13 AM) Tom,... Mar 2 2007, 06:36 AM

fredk I agree that purple is hard to swallow - and their... Mar 2 2007, 04:20 PM

CosmicRocker Ok, fredk. I have a plan. I converted my adjuste... Mar 3 2007, 06:16 AM

CosmicRocker That was a wasted effort. Google Pages freaked ou... Mar 3 2007, 05:52 PM

fredk Tom, thanks a million! That's exactly wha... Mar 3 2007, 07:26 PM

algorimancer Those were great! HiRise needs to make lots m... Mar 3 2007, 07:49 PM

Pando Coooool CosmicRocker! Now, the only thing left... Mar 4 2007, 12:47 AM

Pando Here's a little 3d flicker gif with Duck Bay a... Mar 4 2007, 02:41 AM

CosmicRocker I think such software exists. I spent time search... Mar 4 2007, 02:50 AM

ngunn Thanks for that anaglyph - superb! Mar 4 2007, 03:51 PM

Sunspot Weren't there supposed to be some pancams of t... Mar 4 2007, 04:12 PM

CosmicRocker Yes, but they apparently have not come down yet. ... Mar 4 2007, 04:23 PM

Sunspot Maybe they've deleted them from the rover. Mar 4 2007, 04:37 PM

Tesheiner No. It's just a question of priorities; they a... Mar 4 2007, 06:11 PM

CosmicRocker I will not claim to understand the complexities of... Mar 5 2007, 06:24 AM

djellison Remember - sometimes there might be two good UHF p... Mar 5 2007, 06:53 AM

fredk We finally have a (partial!) pancam view of th... Mar 5 2007, 08:24 PM

Tesheiner One whole week waiting to see that pancam at full-... Mar 5 2007, 08:46 PM

brellis Perhaps they had to airbrush the little martians o... Mar 5 2007, 09:11 PM

fredk Not to worry Tesheiner, I'm sure the Wise Ones... Mar 5 2007, 09:17 PM

Edward Schmitz How about an impact origin for the lump... We hav... Mar 5 2007, 09:41 PM

CosmicRocker Egad...Talk about building the suspense! We h... Mar 6 2007, 05:17 AM

Tesheiner At last! Here are the pancams: http://nasa.exp... Mar 7 2007, 08:56 AM

Stu Luvverly lump of rock... Mar 7 2007, 10:21 AM

Ant103 And the color panorama (quickly stitched) : Mar 7 2007, 01:01 PM

alan Judging from the color differencee, which is reall... Mar 7 2007, 01:20 PM

ngunn Could it be from here, but lower down? Mar 7 2007, 01:23 PM

dvandorn Looks to me like the Lump is the same kind of rock... Mar 7 2007, 01:26 PM

Tesheiner I think this rock on the picture below is another ... Mar 7 2007, 04:23 PM

ustrax Tesheiner...and those rocks in the background? Whe... Mar 7 2007, 04:30 PM

Tesheiner Sharp eyes, Ustrax! Perhaps those are meteorit... Mar 7 2007, 04:36 PM

ustrax QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Mar 7 2007, 04:36 PM) ... Mar 7 2007, 04:54 PM

fredk Tesheiner: I've been eyeing that "2nd lum... Mar 7 2007, 04:48 PM

Tesheiner Well, the big rock is at C5-D1 some 115m from the ... Mar 7 2007, 05:03 PM

fredk Those "rocks", Ustrax, are a small, fres... Mar 7 2007, 05:15 PM

ustrax That's it... Thanks fredk! Mar 7 2007, 05:25 PM

fredk To emphasize how distinct the colour of the Lump o... Mar 7 2007, 06:32 PM

JTN QUOTE (fredk @ Mar 7 2007, 06:32 PM) I wo... Mar 7 2007, 10:56 PM

Tesheiner QUOTE (JTN @ Mar 7 2007, 11:56 PM) Appare... Mar 8 2007, 09:38 AM

Edward Schmitz well, it certainly is an interesting rock. I seem... Mar 7 2007, 06:53 PM

dvandorn Fred, what I was seeing that looked very similar t... Mar 8 2007, 02:23 AM

stevesliva QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 7 2007, 09:23 PM) t... Mar 8 2007, 03:35 AM

CosmicRocker I thought these pancams would have solved the myst... Mar 8 2007, 06:22 AM

general Big Brother is watching you, Tesheiner. Mar 8 2007, 10:01 AM

Ant103 Hum... I see that the "Lump Rocks" make ... Mar 8 2007, 11:20 AM

MarsIsImportant Does 'Madrid' or the lump equal a remanent... Mar 8 2007, 12:39 PM

dvandorn Hmmm... appears to me that the Lump *is* fine-laye... Mar 8 2007, 03:29 PM

MarsIsImportant QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 8 2007, 09:29 AM) H... Mar 8 2007, 03:55 PM

fredk Dvandorn, To risk getting into a "yes they d... Mar 8 2007, 03:51 PM

MarkL The present campaign seems focused on finishing th... Mar 8 2007, 03:58 PM

MarsIsImportant QUOTE (MarkL @ Mar 8 2007, 09:58 AM) The ... Mar 8 2007, 04:15 PM

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