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Opportunity's Travel Plans, How far will Oppy explore this area of Victoria
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post Jan 28 2007, 11:40 PM
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I've been wondering how far Opportunity will go clockwise around the North Rim before she turns around to find the best place to enter Victoria.

My feeling is she will go to the larger dark band material located between D1 & D2 of Tesheiner Route Map to examine that before she turns around and heads back to either Duck Bay or Bottomless Bay to enter Victoria?

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djellison
post Jan 30 2007, 02:50 PM
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Go find the MOC DEM animation fo Victoria crater or just look at the images from the rim.

Yeah - Bottomless Bay is a possible ingress point - but the SE quadrant of Victoria is a MUCH MUCH easier slope to drive down.

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post Jan 31 2007, 12:41 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 30 2007, 09:50 AM) *
Yeah - Bottomless Bay is a possible ingress point - but the SE quadrant of Victoria is a MUCH MUCH easier slope to drive down.


If the white layer is the top of the evaporite, and everything above is ejectra, then entering Victoria in the SE quadrant is worthless. In the SE quadrant, the white layer is next the the sand at the bottom of the cratere with no other strata to explore. I could be wrong, but I'm sure Doug or geologists from the "Victoria Stratigraphy" thread can set me straight.

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- Bobby   Opportunity's Travel Plans   Jan 28 2007, 11:40 PM
- - MarkL   They are going to where there is the greatest hori...   Jan 29 2007, 01:45 AM
- - CosmicRocker   I think it might be fair to ask at this point, is ...   Jan 30 2007, 07:08 AM
- - edstrick   It's unclear whether there *IS* hard-rock (or ...   Jan 30 2007, 11:50 AM
- - Zvezdichko   according to what's shown on this map: http:/...   Jan 30 2007, 02:38 PM
- - djellison   Go find the MOC DEM animation fo Victoria crater o...   Jan 30 2007, 02:50 PM
|- - Floyd   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 30 2007, 09:50 AM)...   Jan 31 2007, 12:41 AM
- - Bobby   To djellison or anyone else in here How high is i...   Jan 30 2007, 04:47 PM

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