My Assistant
Site Message
  |
The drive back to Duck Bay |
 May 6 2007, 04:33 AM
Post
#16
|
|
 Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132  |
QUOTE (ronatu @ May 5 2007, 01:20 PM)  Does anyone knows why Opps is turned back? The plan from the very beginning was to go about as far around as Opportunity did and then decide on going in. I think the deciding factor is the realization that at any time Opportunity could lose the use of a wheel, like Spirit, or suffer some other debilitating event. Better to get on with exploring Victoria from the inside before that happens. |
 |
 
|
|
May 6 2007, 04:47 AM
Post
#17
|
|
 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
QUOTE (ronatu @ May 6 2007, 04:12 AM) Educated guess? No. Read the latest update at the Planetary Society, or just read some of the other posts on this forum. This line of inquiry is a bit of a waste of time. Edit: And by "a bit of a waste of time", I mean I'm going to start deleting posts if this goes on much longer. |
|
|
|
|
May 6 2007, 05:34 AM
Post
#18
|
|
 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Hehe. You might notice some people here making "educated guesses."
-------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
|
|
|
|
May 6 2007, 11:31 AM
Post
#19
|
||
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2886 Joined: 22-April 05 From: Ridderkerk, Netherlands Member No.: 353 |
The view in the drive direction on Sol 1164.
Taken with the L2 Pancam. jvandriel
Attached thumbnail(s)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
May 7 2007, 04:30 AM
Post
#20
|
|
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Interestingly, "Little Miss Perfect" seems to have paused at quite an interersting ejecta block for some IDD work. It looks like a good place to study the concretions' relationship to the bedrock's erosion, or maybe something else. I hope there are several targets here.
-------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
|
|
|
|
May 7 2007, 02:59 PM
Post
#21
|
||
 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Very crude attempt but have to go out in 5 mins...
-------------------- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
May 7 2007, 03:38 PM
Post
#22
|
|||
|
The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Fascinating difference between the two rocks on the left there... is the lighter, smoother one a piece of impactor? And does anyone else think that the debris here, with its cracked and pitted surface, looks like bits of Wopmay that we saw in Endurance?
... and in 3D...
Hello..? Anyone else out there..? 
-------------------- |
||
|
|
|
||
|
May 7 2007, 07:19 PM
Post
#23
|
|
 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
We're out here alright, but have you noticed the condition of the roads around here?
Ballpark Highway Stadium Ring Road I think it's high time the county did some repairs! What are we paying taxes for anyway? 
-------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
|
|
|
|
|
May 8 2007, 04:55 AM
Post
#24
|
||
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Hehe, that's why I drive a 4wd SUV. You never know what the road conditions will be like after it rains meteors and people drive around in defective vehicles on their wheel rims.
I think those most probably are pieces of the impactor. I've been making the right filter ratio images as they become available. Although I think this particular algorithm was intended to highlight the blueberries, it does seem to qualitatively highlight other mineralogical differences in the materials. There are several rocks rocks in and near this crater that clearly aren't from the neighborhood.
-------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
May 8 2007, 05:08 AM
Post
#25
|
|
 Member Group: Members Posts: 267 Joined: 5-February 06 Member No.: 675 |
Nicely done Tom.
That's what I call a beautiful picture! Steve |
|
|
|
|
May 8 2007, 07:32 AM
Post
#26
|
||
|
The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Very nice. Those colours stand out pretty well on a colour image, too...
-------------------- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
May 8 2007, 05:09 PM
Post
#27
|
|
 Member Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 17-March 05 Member No.: 206 |
QUOTE (Stu @ May 8 2007, 03:32 AM) Very nice. Those colours stand out pretty well on a colour image, too... This does not appear to be like the other meteorites we have seen. My guess that this is a secondary impact crater and the 'impactor' is from another location on Mars. It appears to be very recent as well, note the blocks are not smoothed out at all and there are rocks of all sizes surrounding the crater... |
|
|
|
|
May 8 2007, 07:54 PM
Post
#28
|
|
|
Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
I think it's worth a closer look
|
|
|
|
|
May 8 2007, 08:35 PM
Post
#29
|
|
|
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
QUOTE (remcook @ May 8 2007, 07:54 PM) I think it's worth a closer look A bit late for that, I think... we've already travelled about 150 meters away from it. It is a nice picture, though. |
|
|
|
|
May 9 2007, 02:02 PM
Post
#30
|
|
|
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4280 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Today was supposed to be a driving sol (1169), but the latest images (navcams) are from exactly the same site as yesterday.
Change of plans and/or an aborted drive. |
|
|
|
|
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 26th October 2024 - 02:15 AM |
|
RULES AND GUIDELINES Please read the Forum Rules and Guidelines before posting. IMAGE COPYRIGHT |
OPINIONS AND MODERATION Opinions expressed on UnmannedSpaceflight.com are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of UnmannedSpaceflight.com or The Planetary Society. The all-volunteer UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderation team is wholly independent of The Planetary Society. The Planetary Society has no influence over decisions made by the UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderators. |
SUPPORT THE FORUM Unmannedspaceflight.com is funded by the Planetary Society. Please consider supporting our work and many other projects by donating to the Society or becoming a member. |
|
