MSL at Rocknest, First scoop samples - sols 57-101 Options

[ngunn]

I am, as usual, uncertain what "small rise," you are referring to in the overhead view

Thanks for persisting! I'll have one more go at explaining. On Peter's map http://petergrindrod.net/wp-content/upload...g-site-topo.png it's about 250 metres from Glenelg at two o'clock - just high enough for an 'island' of yellow colour.

I think it may also be visible in the Bradbury Landing panorama.

[ronald]

Nice picture of the first scoop sample. Near the botton, slightly right off the middle is a strange piece - couldn't locate it in the navcam images though. Maybe something scraped off the rover(wheels)?

And what a nice and clean cut - you can even see the dust layers

[EdTruthan]

On Peter's map http://petergrindrod.net/wp-content/upload...g-site-topo.png it's about 250 metres from Glenelg at two o'clock - just high enough for an 'island' of yellow colour....

Ok ngunn, look right in the center of this anaglyph (this thing pops right out in 3D). There's a Big Island there. Is that the island you're looking for? Based on the Mt. Sharp ridge lines in the background it would be just a bit north of due east from the MSL position on Sol 51 from which this anaglyph was made, so pretty well corresponds to the island you're referring to on Peter's map.



BTW this is a crop of a much larger anaglyph I'm working on from the Sol 51 Mastcams...

[Doc]

I too noticed it ronald. Here is a cropped view


The full image reduced for context; at first I thought it was just another hot pixel.


More uralane?

Edit: Curiosity tweets that there is some speculation that it could be a piece of rover hardware. (Is Curiosity shaking herself to bits....?)

[ngunn]

Responding to Ed Truthan: Yes I think that's it. Big/small - it's all relative. (It looks quite small on the map, and probably has no significance beyond helping us to orient ourselves) Great anaglyph!

EDIT: I should have said more. This anaglyph is the best realisation so far of the light-toned hollow at the outer boundary of the high thermal inertia unit.

[Doc]

Sub frame images from the video are pouring in and some more:

Close up of the scooped area:0061MR0319001000E1_DXXX

Finally we might be able to see how the wind affected the falling dirt:0061MR0306001000E1_DXXX

[Jam Butty]

Shake Rattle & Roll

Sol 61 scoop shaking,
3 frame animation covering about two and a half minutes of real time...

[ElkGroveDan]

Ok ngunn, look right in the center of this anaglyph (this thing pops right out in 3D).

Nice anaglyph, it really shows the depression. It resembles a dry lake bed in Southern California's high desert. The only thing missing is a RAV4 parked out there.

[Phil Stooke]

Curiosity can get to places even a RAV4 can't reach.

Phil

[Pando]

She already has, Phil.

[Doc]

Update on the bright object

[pmetschan]

Update on the bright object

Would they go as far as to dump the current sample in order to use MAHLI to take a look?

[Doc]

Would they go as far as to dump the current sample in order to use MAHLI to take a look?

By imaging I think they'll start with the 100mm Mastcam before doing something drastic with an arm that may be lacking a component (assuming it is from the arm).

[paraisosdelsiste...]

ChemCam images of the bright object:




It seems to me more a plastic object than a metallic one.

[stewjack]

Great anaglyph!

EDIT: I should have said more. This anaglyph is the best realization so far of the light-toned hollow at the outer boundary of the high thermal inertia unit.

Yep I am holding off. We now have much better data!