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Post Solar Conjunction/Santorini Study Drive, The second leg in our Journey to Endeavor Crater |
 Jan 29 2009, 11:12 PM
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QUOTE (SFJCody @ Jan 29 2009, 09:30 PM)  What I find amazing about the idea of Opportunity going to Endeavour is that the crater is so big that if it had appeared in the landing ellipse the ...This will be like nothing we've seen from the rovers before! Exactly my feelings too  Thats one of the reasons I like the long distance driving: if it puts us so well beyond the original landing ellipse, it is a bit like landing another spacecraft at another position - for the price of one real landing plus driving 
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Jan 29 2009, 11:28 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
We left the landing ellipse before we even got to the etched terrain at Erebus iirc - that terrain wasn't considered safe for landing even.
Doug |
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Jan 30 2009, 02:51 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
It only goes to show how important ground truth is.... even MROs wondrous images are just whetting the appetite!
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jan 30 2009, 08:05 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 29 2009, 11:28 PM) We left the landing ellipse before we even got to the etched terrain at Erebus iirc - that terrain wasn't considered safe for landing even. Doug I dunno. Looking at the original ellipse it seems there was some etched terrain off to the west of the rover even before Erebus/the edge of the ellipse. |
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Jan 30 2009, 08:58 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
But look at all the etched terrain to the south (and Squyres mentioned this in on of the Q'n'A's a few years back)
We are in terrain that was intentionally avoided at landing. |
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Jan 30 2009, 03:59 PM
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Looks like roughly another 100m or so on sol 1784.
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Jan 30 2009, 04:31 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Latest batch of my 3D images collected here...
http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/3dfest -------------------- |
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Jan 30 2009, 05:57 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10255 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Here we are...
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 30 2009, 06:41 PM
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Nice. I wondered if we would head for that linear feature.
Phil, I would have positioned Oppy about one red-dot-diameter further south from where you have it - we're just the south side of the NE-SW feature. -------------------- |
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Jan 30 2009, 07:05 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10255 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Well, I can't move it now, I flattened the image. Young Oppers will have to back up.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jan 31 2009, 02:18 AM
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Looks like the linear feature of interest is a monocline with a small displacement crestal normal fault
My 5 minute Sumo Paint interpretation:
-------------------- Tim Demko
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Jan 31 2009, 03:45 AM
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QUOTE (tdemko @ Jan 30 2009, 09:18 PM) Looks like the linear feature of interest is a monocline with a small displacement crestal normal fault Coooooool. How did it form? What does it mean? (....and is that a little bitty crater next to it on the left?) -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Jan 31 2009, 02:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Phoenix, AZ USA Member No.: 9 |
QUOTE (Juramike @ Jan 30 2009, 09:45 PM) How did it form? What does it mean? (....and is that a little bitty crater next to it on the left?) 5 more minutes on Sumo Paint yields this:
And yes, that does look like a mini-crater. The dip panels suggest maybe a low angle impact towards about 11 o'clock, with some low angle dips on the right side of the crater and some bi-directional steeper dips over a small fold on the upper left side (weathering in a rubbly slope).
Can ya tell I'm lovin' the Sumo Paint? Best Internet-Mars-Geology-Field-Camp mapping tool there is! -------------------- Tim Demko
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Jan 31 2009, 11:04 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
That will make a neat illustration for:
 "Roadside Geology of Mars" "Mars Highway 1: Victoria Crater to Endeavour Crater" -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Jan 31 2009, 11:16 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Better view...
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