Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point' |
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Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point' |
 Jun 10 2011, 02:59 PM
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Is Oppy driving to the high point we see, then turning right ?
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Jun 10 2011, 03:50 PM
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Actually that is not the drive direction, my fault for wording my comment the way I did.. "Spirit Point" her first destination at Endeavor Crater is to the North, or left of this image. Hopefully we'll have enough images for a drive direction pan in the next day or so.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jun 10 2011, 04:20 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Oppy is following the purple line towards Cape York. The hills visible so strikingly in the latest images are the ones ringed in red. Edit: Quickmessaboutwith...
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Jun 10 2011, 05:46 PM
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The new view of Cape Tribulation blew me away, too. In fact, I think it deserves one of my "poor man's superres" treatments. Here's the 2x zoomed, registered, average of all four L2/R2 frames on sols 2621 and 2622, to reduce jpeg noise:
I've also tried to ID various features. Here's my best stab:
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Jun 10 2011, 09:39 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 111 Joined: 14-March 05 From: Vastitas Borealis Member No.: 193 |
A rare possibility for a long(ish) baseline 3D occurred between sols 2621/2622. Here, the R pancam images of Cape Trib from those sols are partly combined into an anaglyph, 3 x stretched so as to accentuate the topography.
Notes: I think I can see two different parts of the rim just to the left of CT, first in the foreground only barely above the horizon, tops of the lower hills north of CT, and secondly straight behind them and reaching higher, a part of the southwestern rim, which is probably visible now for the first time unless I am mistaken. In the farther background the mighty Iazu is again showing itself.
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Jun 10 2011, 10:06 PM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Jun 10 2011, 01:46 PM)  ...average of all four L2/R2 frames on sols 2621 and 2622, to reduce jpeg noise: ...results in a nice watercolor paper texture. 
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Jun 11 2011, 02:30 AM
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If she could get going fast enough, maybe she could do a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang over Endeavour!
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Jun 11 2011, 06:22 AM
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Thanks everyone for the thrilling views, eyes ahead, the view is unfolding ...
-------------------- 'She drove until the wheels fell off...'
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Jun 11 2011, 07:04 AM
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Imagine how nice would be if, after exploration at Spirit Point, Opportunity will climb on top of Cape Tribulation in order to have, for the first time, a panoramic view of Meridiani plain...
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Jun 11 2011, 12:50 PM
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The panoramic view on Sol 2622
taken with the L2 pancam. Jan van Driel
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Jun 11 2011, 11:28 PM
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Probably nothing, but..... looking at a pancam image from 2621 a 10x stretch reveals two little peaks roughly in the direction of Cape York. But then again they might also be Moby Dick's tail.
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-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jun 12 2011, 12:21 AM
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That was the "beacon" crater/"cape approach crater" that we talked about a while ago - see this post onwards.
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Jun 12 2011, 11:36 AM
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A stray thought . . Having recently passed by some craters named after Mercury spacecraft and another called Gemini we now (as anticipated by Stu) seem to be making a beeline for quite a rich cluster of craters. There seem to be about seventeen of them. Mmm.
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Jun 12 2011, 11:43 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 559 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
Nice thought, but there weren't 17 Apollos as there was a lot of muddle at the start and numbers began again at 4, missing out 2 and 3. We've already had one Apollo craft name, Gumdrop, the Command Module from Apollo 9. I told Rusty...
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Jun 12 2011, 12:10 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
3D view of "Crater Cluster"...
...and to show how big this cluster is compared to Oppy herself...
Too many pix to post here, but I've written up a kind of "Road Ahead" travelogue on my blog here... http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2011/...r-monster-drive ..if anyone would like to drop by and take a look.
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