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Home Plate (second round)
Tesheiner
post Sep 6 2007, 01:55 PM
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Well I think that Spirit has finally left Silica Valley for good --please don't tell me that we should go back again to Silica Valley because of another turned up soil deposit or cracked rock-- and is about to start another science campaign at Home Plate, so it would be time to start a new thread devoted to this period of time.

I said on a previous post on the older thread that it looks like the plan is to traverse the top. Digging on an old MER report (at TPS) I found this reference:
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"The general desire is to stay on top of Home Plate, but follow the outcrop exposures around to the portion that everybody really wants to get to -- the far end or southwestern portion of Home Plate," said Yen.


Edited: This even older report might apply too.
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At that time, the team will have to decide if Spirit will cross the diameter of Home Plate, roving radially toward the center and across the feature to look at what might be exposed. "If this feature is bowl-shaped, as the rover goes to the center, it will go higher and higher stratigraphically even though it's not going up in elevation," explained Banerdt. "That's one of the primary arguments for spending some time on top of Home Plate." There's no clear evidence of this stratification from MRO's HiRISE images. "But it could be there and just covered by surface dust," he suggested.
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hortonheardawho
post Oct 2 2007, 09:07 PM
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Spirit sol 1330 colorized MI panorama of "Texas Chili":



with links to location and original panorama which has links to 3D pairs.
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post Oct 2 2007, 10:14 PM
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QUOTE (hortonheardawho @ Oct 2 2007, 11:07 AM) *
Spirit sol 1330 colorized MI panorama of "Texas Chili":

Hot diggity! And what are the little red blotches? Chili peppers? Paprika? cool.gif


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post Oct 2 2007, 11:18 PM
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QUOTE (Shaka @ Oct 2 2007, 06:14 PM) *
Hot diggity! And what are the little red blotches? Chili peppers? Paprika? cool.gif


Er, the red spots are most likely imaging artifacts caused by interpolation and registration of a tiny piece of a pancam image with a MI panorama.

But there is a small quantum mechanical like probability that it is chili pepper flakes -- freeze dried.

The image colors are only a hint of what might be.
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- Tesheiner   Home Plate (second round)   Sep 6 2007, 01:55 PM
- - BrianL   Have they said what it is about the SW corner that...   Sep 6 2007, 05:26 PM
|- - Stu   Perhaps Stu feels a poem coming on. Hmm, perha...   Sep 6 2007, 06:32 PM
- - Tesheiner   > Have they said what it is about the SW corner...   Sep 6 2007, 08:55 PM
- - Tesheiner   Ah! Spirit finally did what I would call a dri...   Sep 10 2007, 11:00 AM
- - Stu   Top of HP with lots of rocks for Spirit to play wi...   Sep 11 2007, 10:51 AM
- - Tesheiner   ... and for the MER team to name after. Gumbo ...   Sep 11 2007, 12:29 PM
- - kenny   Gumbo and Goulash - they're now naming things ...   Sep 11 2007, 01:52 PM
|- - climber   QUOTE (kenny @ Sep 11 2007, 03:52 PM) ...   Sep 11 2007, 04:24 PM
|- - Juramike   Or "Cap'n Crunch"...   Sep 11 2007, 04:30 PM
|- - vikingmars   QUOTE (climber @ Sep 11 2007, 06:24 PM) D...   Sep 11 2007, 06:05 PM
- - Ant103   Or "Ratatouille", "Bouillabaisse...   Sep 11 2007, 06:18 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   How about some American dishes? nachos, ravioli, ...   Sep 11 2007, 06:26 PM
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- - edstrick   Anyone for Ratatooie?   Sep 12 2007, 05:43 AM
- - Tesheiner   We have some fresh pics from sol 1312 and here are...   Sep 12 2007, 01:25 PM
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|- - dburt   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 12 2007, 10:56 PM) ...   Sep 13 2007, 06:09 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (dburt @ Sep 13 2007, 08:09 AM) Yes...   Sep 13 2007, 06:16 PM
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- - Tesheiner   Dear guests, the "menu" for sol 1315 is ...   Sep 14 2007, 10:03 AM
- - jamescanvin   Sounds good. I wasn't so keen on tosols dish, ...   Sep 14 2007, 10:20 AM
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|- - fredk   QUOTE (climber @ Sep 18 2007, 04:30 PM) S...   Sep 18 2007, 05:54 PM
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- - Floyd   fredk: I think you can see a nice fracture in Hom...   Sep 18 2007, 04:40 PM
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|- - fredk   QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Sep 20 2007, 03:54 ...   Sep 20 2007, 03:41 PM
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