Goodbye Victoria, The long trek has started Options

[jamescanvin]

Well spotted Phil.

I've made a polar image of the 1683 drive direction images and overlaid it onto my latest driveability image (considerably higher resolution than anything I've posted on UMSF so far) showing how the images point straight at the prominent SSW 'ray' (South is at the top, pancams are rotated using tracking data, position is approximately Tesheiner's route map position)

In the second image I've pointed out a few features that I have (very tentatively) matched up.



James

[Ant103]

The goodbye to Victoria. In french, we say "adieu" but there is no word in english like this because we traduce good-bye as "au revoir". But we will never return back to Victoria.

Adieu Victoria


So, let write a new page of mars exploration history .

[elakdawalla]

It's sad to say farewell to Victoria; but it's a happy day too. Opportunity's destination is has now been officially named Endeavour. Onward!

--Emily

[Juramike]

Adios, au revoir, auf weidersehen.....

(Couldn't resist!)

[Pavel]

Ade, mein liebes Schätzelein

[Stu]

Okay, hands up... who wants to go back...?

Victory

[nprev]

You bet...in a nice, flexible suit with a hard helmet, with a sturdy rock-pick and a digital hand-lens with a fat uplink! I'd take that thing apart layer by layer just to see what could be found (drooool....)

(Sorry; my passions overcome me! Nice work, Stu!)

[SFJCody]

Is this a driving sol?

[Tesheiner]

According to the imaging plan, yessss!!!

[jamescanvin]

It's been a long time since I last worked with the tracking data - but if I've got this right, it looks like tosols drive was about 130m WSW (maybe a little more as the site ID was reset at the end) - that is directly away from Victoria.

Goodbye Victoria - Onwards!

James

[Tesheiner]

Yup, at least 130m!

> maybe a little more as the site ID was reset at the end
Based in the time between the latest reading and the "0" of the new site I believe they are the same.

[Juramike]

Ooooh! Anyone got an estimated position? I think we're on all five Terrain models now.

-Mike

[ustrax]

Leaving the safety of the port for one more discovery saga...simply amazing!

Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken (1915)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

EDITED: I think I see where we're headed...I think...to catch solid ground as soon as possible, and it looks likes there are at least two eroded rims that way...I like it!

[SFJCody]

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P1311R0M1.JPG
Hmmm, moving south-west

[Shaka]

Hmmm...why?
Can anyone spot any likely objective along this track? Perhaps beyond Vicky's apron. Tesh?