[X] My Assistant

[RobertEB]

I am curious if Guam is an uplift feature from the impact that created Victoria, or rock being exposed by material slumping down into the crater. If the latter, that would be one large slump Opportunity is driving on.

[Floyd]

Pancams and additional navcams in at exploratorium.

[climber]

We're a few meters below the Beacon now :


Did you already notice this "fault" feature ?

[jvandriel]

Drunken Sailor track.

The panoramic view from Sol 1066.

Taken with the L0 Navcam.

jvandriel

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[Phil Stooke]

The latest drive reminds me of the time I put too much Irish Cream on my cornflakes.

Phil

[Pando]

or maybe if Oppy is feeling a bit more poetical and ironically spry...

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-- Pertinax

http://www.usask.ca/english/prufrock/prufrock15.wav

[Tesheiner]

I hope they take a look at Guam (the dock). Might be interesting.

It was imaged yestersol (1067) but not yet downlinked.

01067::p2570::17::2::2::0::0::2::6::pancam_guam_LOCO_L7R1

Did you already notice this "fault" feature ?

It can be barely seen on this pancam part of the Duck Bay panorama.
And on Cape Verde shots too.

[jamescanvin]

As we move out onto Cape Desire it looks like the focus is on the next bay, Bahia Blanca. Posts from the last few sols moved to a new thread for this bay.

[CosmicRocker]

Yipee! The Otis Redding Pancams came down today, and there we were, (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay.

I have been praying for these pancams for a while, and I think it's a very nice scene. I was hoping for more, but I'll take an L7R1 pair any day. The Dock seems to be one of the several ejecta layers which has been eroded back. For some time I have been wondering why the ejecta seemed to be layered, but it makes sense that stuff was thrown out of the crater by processes that created overlapping layers.

Anyway, that's what it looks like to me. Here is the anaglyph of the feature otherwise known as Guam.

I couldn't help but wonder what the rubble pile in the distance was, so I will also include a HiRise image with my best guess as to where that is. Our current position at a lower elevation is visible in the background of the anaglyph.

[Tesheiner]

I was doing my usual early morning (GMT+1) lookup at the exploratorium looking for "fresh" yestersol images of Opportunity and just found old ones. I simply forgot about those missing (and long waiting) "LOCO" images of the dock. Thanks Tom for the reminder.

I agree with your guess for the rubble pile position. About our current position, it's well out of the fov to the right and more on the foreground then at the background. Here are two navcams on that same heading (a much bigger fov, of course!) for reference. I think that the cape visible on the background at a lower elevation on the "loco" pancam is C3.

[ngunn]

I hope somebody does a nice (perspective?) merge of those two navcam shots. I've just had a go with scissors and sticky tape and the result is a highly satisfying landscape composition. The whole scene is very clearly laid out before the eye all the way from Dock to Soup Dragon. The downcurving profile of the apron off to the left is striking too.

[Tesheiner]

You have not only two but five navcams in Jvandriel's mosaic (post #124 above).

[CosmicRocker]

Yes, Tesheiner...C3. I jumped to a conclusion when I saw that pointed cape, even though the current location couldn't possiblly be along that line of site.

[ngunn]

So we do!!!!! Thanks. However for some reason the relevant part of that looks a lot less compelling that what I've just printed off and stuck together. I don't know if its the scale, the contrast or what. In case anybody wants to try it here is the very simple recipe:
I printed the 2 images in your post on A4 in landscape format, which had the effect of cropping off the bottom third of each. I then trimmed off only the right white margin of the left hand image and stuck them together to give a straight horizon with the middle distance matched as well as possible. The result is a picture, 47cm by17cm with ready-made white margin, which is going on my wall!

[jamescanvin]

Other versions were posted in the Bahia Blanca thread but this really belongs here.

My version of the stunning 5pm view from Cabo Anonimo.



I can't wait for one of you colouring in folks to attack this view.

James.


And that brings up the big 1000 posts. Still, can't keep up with Spirit or Oppy sols though.