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By watching the dunes (the most beautiful variety so far) I can't decide the general wind direction. This is important to find the best place to get a solar panels clean up. I don't expect we'll find a better oppy for a while.
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Dec 17 2010, 09:05 PM
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We may get a wind cleaning event here too....hopefully.
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Dec 17 2010, 09:06 PM
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The darker dunes look like el dorado type at spirits landing site!
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Dec 17 2010, 09:11 PM
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I hope they start a full Pan this weekend. Some of those ejecta-blocks look very interesting. Different from the usual boring
 Meridiani layered rocks?
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Dec 17 2010, 09:13 PM
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QUOTE (climber @ Dec 17 2010, 12:52 PM)  If you don't trust your brakes, turn the weels: That's the front right wheel. It's not steer-turned in > 5 years. |
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Dec 17 2010, 09:15 PM
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Polar maps derived from Tesheiner's pan:
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Dec 17 2010, 09:27 PM
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Dec 17 2010, 09:34 PM
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Gothrock:
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Dec 17 2010, 09:36 PM
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The first thing that popped into my head when I saw this picture was where's my toboggan?
Stunning. I think this is the most picturesque crater we've seen so far. What Victoria had in size, Santa Maria makes up for in pure drama. |
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Dec 17 2010, 09:38 PM
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Fantastic!
Here's the only anaglyph of the interior from the new set:
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Dec 17 2010, 09:39 PM
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And from mhoward's pan, just looking at the distance. Bopolu's gone now, presumably for ever.
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Dec 17 2010, 10:39 PM
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Scott Maxwell has posted what is presumably his version of the sol 2451 Navcam view of Santa Maria:
http://twitpic.com/3gulwc http://twitpic.com/3gulwc/full |
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Dec 17 2010, 10:52 PM
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With this dark sand dunes over its inner rim, Santa Maria is definitely different from the previous craters visited. These dunes are really smooth, I wonder what is the grains size... Should be like El Dorado. BTW, congrats to the navigators, driving Oppy so close to the crater rim is really impressive !
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Dec 17 2010, 11:17 PM
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Bit more processing on the Santa Maria pan from post #99
-------------------- Protein structures and Mars fun - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick960/
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Dec 17 2010, 11:37 PM
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The plan:
QUOTE Won't be able to do much Monday, but we can drive and image today. Planning ~ 5m to second eye of long-baseline stereo. Mmmm, long baseline stereo...  |
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