Spring at Cape York, Sol 2947 (after Greeley Haven) - sol 3040 |
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 Jun 17 2012, 05:37 AM
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QUOTE (Oersted @ Jun 17 2012, 01:19 AM)  I'll miss all the talk about the winds and cleaning events and jumping from lily pad to lily pad when we go from MER to MSL.... MER = the era of sail MSL = the era of the nuclear submarine... What about Steve S been in NEEMO right now? 
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Jun 17 2012, 03:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2591 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jun 16 2012, 04:12 PM) Spirit received a huge cleaning event while 'sheltered' between Home Plate and a nearby hill called Tsiolkovsky. Phil interesting since I thought the oposite! Spirit was sitting between two ridges/hills and I thought it was a Venturi effect. -------------------- |
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Jun 17 2012, 05:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 5331 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Whatever the mechanism it was still a cleaning event!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jun 19 2012, 06:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 5331 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
... Don't you hate it when there are no pictures???
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jun 19 2012, 07:04 PM
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While waiting on the pictures, I'm passing the time playing 'guess the energy production' until we get the new update...
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Jun 19 2012, 10:41 PM
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I feel your pain, Phil! At least we can take some old pics, polish them up a bit, apply some transformations, and repost them, tricking that part of the brain that needs new images, if only for a moment...
Here's mhoward's navcam pan from 2965 cropped and 3x vertical stretched, to remind us that we're still perched at the edge of one whopper of a crater:
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Jun 19 2012, 11:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 5331 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
"I feel your pain, Phil! At least we can..."
Hmm, yes, that just might work! I'm trying to follow my Gusev rim panorama with a version from the sol 2220s region where Bopolu, Miyamoto and Endeavour were all visible simultaneously. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jun 19 2012, 11:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 5331 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Also - Fred's pic of the crater floor reminded me to post this... first, the abstacts for the Planetary Dunes workshop:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/dunes2012/pdf/program.pdf And then this gem: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/dunes2012/pdf/7038.pdf Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jun 20 2012, 01:14 PM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Jun 19 2012, 03:41 PM) I feel your pain, Phil! Well, if we're really desperate, there's thumbnails.  Thanks for the links, Phil.
Attached thumbnail(s)
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Jun 20 2012, 01:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3385 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
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Jun 20 2012, 04:32 PM
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Good news regarding Odyssey [link]
"PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has been taken out of a protective status called safe mode. Remaining steps toward resuming all normal spacecraft activities will probably be completed by nextweek. Controllerswill continue characterizing the performance of the replacement wheel in coming days while assessing which other activities of the spacecraft, besides nadir pointing, can be performed reliably with reaction-wheel control of attitude. In returning to full service, Odyssey will first resume its communication relay function for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, and then will resume the orbiter's own scientific observations of Mars. As a priority, activities will resume for preparing Odyssey to serve as acommunications relay for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission. " -------------------- Floyd
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Jun 21 2012, 05:59 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jun 19 2012, 07:26 PM) ... Don't you hate it when there are no pictures??? ...and love it when they're back?  A short drive farther north onto the "shoreline" of CY on 2989:http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...Q2P0635R0M1.JPG |
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Jun 21 2012, 06:26 PM
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I love this view, thanks Fredk
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Jun 21 2012, 08:17 PM
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QUOTE (climber @ Jun 21 2012, 01:26 PM) I love this view, thanks Fredk Just to make certain that I am not turned around - are we looking toward the red dot from the "shoreline" of CY on that sol 2989 image?
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Jun 21 2012, 08:38 PM
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That looks about right.
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