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Post Solar Conjunction/Santorini Study Drive, The second leg in our Journey to Endeavor Crater |
 Jan 5 2009, 06:10 AM
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The time stamps are from a few sols ago.
I would be surprised if they were not predominantly blueberries, but they are eroded ones. Blueberries do erode in time. These have been exposed for a longer period than those 'fresh' ones in the lag around Victoria. -------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Jan 6 2009, 01:59 AM
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You know, other Doug, the very same thought occurred to me -- the images of the blueberries looked so familiar that I thought they might be stowaways. We spent so much time staring at those early images, marveling at our ability to see grains of Martian sand a few hours after they were photographed!
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Jan 6 2009, 03:23 PM
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QUOTE (Shaka @ Jan 4 2009, 10:10 PM)  The time stamps are from a few sols ago. I would be surprised if they were not predominantly blueberries, but they are eroded ones. Blueberries do erode in time. These have been exposed for a longer period than those 'fresh' ones in the lag around Victoria. Next to the target named Candia there was a patch of soil that we also MI'd. Lots of juicy blueberries. Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Jan 6 2009, 06:43 PM
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I can't tell from the images I've seen, but I'd bet that you don't see a whole lot in the way of ripples forming directly onto blueberry-armored soils. Perhaps we're seeing an ejecta distribution of blueberry-rich boulders and rocks which left behind an armoring that results in the bare, non-rippled patches? I've always thought I could see a certain degree of organization to the bare patches out in the ripple fields that look for all the world like splash patterns...
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jan 6 2009, 09:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
If you can document those "splash patterns", oDoug, you've got a paper to publish.
I do feel, however, that our PIs will put other, regional patterns at a higher priority for understanding the history of Meridiani. Impact ejecta patterns will probably be viewed as 'noise' obscuring the 'important stuff'. YMMV  -------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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| Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Jan 10 2009, 03:33 PM
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http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...PDP2996M2M1.JPG
Looks like they are not only operating the imager, but also the RAT ... Am I right? |
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Jan 10 2009, 04:15 PM
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I'm not entirely sure what you mean.
If your talking about the indentation in the ground in that image - that is from the Mössbauer -------------------- |
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| Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Jan 10 2009, 04:18 PM
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Yeah, thank you!
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Jan 10 2009, 05:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
Glad to be of help.
Talking of the RAT, is anybody else worried to see a sequence of identical pancams and fhazcams of the RAT on 1764. I assume it should have been moving between those shots.  http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...BBP2137R1M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...BBP2137R1M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...BBP2137R1M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...BBP1148R0M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...BBP1148R0M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...BBP1148R0M1.JPG -------------------- |
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Jan 10 2009, 09:27 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 978 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Jan 10 2009, 09:01 AM) Glad to be of help. Talking of the RAT, is anybody else worried to see a sequence of identical pancams and fhazcams of the RAT on 1764. I assume it should have been moving between those shots. ... Yes, it should have. We will repeat the sequence on Monday and this time it should work. It seems we have lost the RAT_Z encoder, which was sort of expected. Unfortunately, at this time we do not have a working testbed so we will have to postpone all RAT activities on Mars until we can verify in the sandbox the new procedure to grind and brush rocks. It should not be a major issue, but we need to test it on the ground before we do it on Mars. So in the meantime it will be  and and . What a bummer.Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Jan 10 2009, 09:32 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 940 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
Nice
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| Guest_Oersted_* |
Jan 10 2009, 09:33 PM
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Stretch her legs!
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Jan 10 2009, 11:49 PM
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Paolo, what's the anticipated work-around for the encoder loss? I assume it's used just for position monitoring telemetry, not for active positional feedback in the control loop?
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jan 11 2009, 10:43 AM
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QUOTE (RoverDriver @ Jan 10 2009, 10:27 PM) So in the meantime it will be and and . Paolo Looking forward to the continuation of the drive
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| Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Jan 11 2009, 02:54 PM
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Hey, folks!
This one... this one! http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...BBP2629L6M3.JPG Take a look. Quickly! PS: I Posted a colorified version of the upper photo. Hope you liked it!
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