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 Oct 2 2010, 10:16 PM
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Parting shot of Ireland is down:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...0M1.JPG?sol2374 |
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Oct 2 2010, 10:23 PM
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The R1 pancams show the near horizon much more clearly than R2, and in the new R1 image there's a bump on the near horizon right where Tman put Santa Maria:
Could be a bit of the rim starting to show, or not. |
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Oct 3 2010, 08:06 AM
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Unusual drive direction for the drive after today's drive : az 36.
I presume that they are going mostly south or south east this sol and then north east the next drive to avoid some old craters. |
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Oct 3 2010, 03:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4260 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
That is a bit of a surprize. (But 36 degrees is NNE, not SSE.) Directly east looks doable - it was just a few months ago that we were regularly crossing dunes bigger than these.
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Oct 3 2010, 04:14 PM
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QUOTE (Bill @ Oct 3 2010, 01:06 AM)  to avoid some old craters. Precisely. Each one those old craters could be a potential "Scamander." This time however we can see them. Rover Drivers are for the most part, very wise. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Oct 3 2010, 05:44 PM
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I blame Tesheiner for posting a random walk on the route map.
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Oct 4 2010, 12:35 AM
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Interesting feature about 400 meters to the ENE
</backseat roverdriver> |
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Oct 4 2010, 02:51 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE (alan @ Oct 3 2010, 05:35 PM) Interesting feature Tell me that's just sinuous dunes and and NOT a depression, in which case it'll be a long time before we go anywhere. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Oct 4 2010, 11:27 AM
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Just a meandering river
 Sure would be nice if there were a color image of this area--the hill or pond area (oval area left of center 1/4 way up from bottom) looks darker and a different texture from the surrounding outcrop.
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Oct 4 2010, 06:58 PM
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Hi fredk. In your picture you have. Could that be the far or near rim of Santa Maria? Just kidding. I hope we start seeing The crater soon. What an amazing drive this rover is doing and is there any current pictures up from the last drive?
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Oct 4 2010, 11:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
QUOTE (Floyd @ Oct 4 2010, 06:27 AM) Sure would be nice if there were a color image of this area Found one
ETA: 011765_1780_RGB not map projected ( is upside-down ) |
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Oct 5 2010, 02:02 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4260 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
A bit of news from Maxwell on the RHAZ test:
QUOTE Need more analysis, but weekend's attempt at RHAZ-based autonav succeeded. Got 15m, then bailed out 'cuz we boxed it in. Promising, though. He also says they may not use this method till they get onto the flat terrain. |
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Oct 5 2010, 02:14 AM
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Right... just after that he tweets that it stopped, but restarted and eventually drove over 90 m that sol.
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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Oct 5 2010, 07:08 PM
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Sol 2379 drive direction mosaic:
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Oct 6 2010, 06:32 AM
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QUOTE 02382 p2542.26 0 0 0 0 0 0 pancam_Choc_Bay_L257R2 Name of the depression? |
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