Time for a new tread.

Bottomless Bay is on sight on these fresh sol 1016 pics!

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...cam/2006-12-02/

Edited: Added this quick & dirty mosaic.
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Yup. Great view across Bottomless Bay to Cape B1.

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James

Opps, you beat me with the panorama.

BTW, has Cape B1 an official name?

I'm sure it does, but I don't think we know it yet. A sequence name on the tracking site will probably tell us in the next day or so (unless and insider wants to chip in )

James

Added one image.

The L0 Navcam panoramic view on Sol 1016.

jvandriel

Here's a polar version of jvandriel's half-pan:

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Phil

Here is the next cape, with shadows brightened a bit so see what lies in them. Not very exciting yet - pancams will be better.

Phil

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Sol 1016 equirectangular

here is a quick colorization as a foretaste of the pancams
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(don't have the time at the moment to do the whole pan, though ....)

How quickly we have gotten used to the views at Victoria Crater...

Well I was wrong, SS said in his Planetary Soc. interview that it hadn't been named and in the tracking site schedule for tosol (1019) lists the observation as just:

Oh wow!

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EDIT: Replaced with a more accurate projection.

James

The views keep getting better. Thanks James. Again, we're seeing very clear striation on these wind scoured rock faces. They are also incredibly smooth, like they've been sandblasted over eons by a very steady and patient wind.

Given the planned sequences for sol 1019 I initially thought it was driving day. It wasn't.



Agree 100%!

Did anyone else notice this little bit of Martian Graffiti?

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Translation:

Earthlings drool, Martians rule!

You'd have to have bad eyesight to miss it, it jumps out and says "LOOK HERE"......

I'll add a few off-the-cuff observations and comments. It looks as if the breccia layer is a little bit thinner here. Perhaps the rate of wind abraion is a bit greater here; or was less breccia deposited?
The lower layer looks as if it still contains large cross-beds. It's not an astounding observation, but it's worthy to note that we're able to trace what is apparently the same layer across two or three bays.
There is some evidence of relatively recent erosion in the form of a rubble pile that rises high up along the middle part of the cliff. It is associated with a distinct cleft in the cliff. Again, not astounding, but it suggests that mass wasting is an on-going process.


By the way those are fantastic images. Thanks to all.

90 degree perspective view northeast, just for perspective...

I don't recall anyone noting the look-back images of the Beacon from sol 1015. My apologies if I missed someone's post about this. They were downsampled images. I have been pretty much overwhelmed by the flood of data from Mars recently. Gigabyte sized images from HiRise of our favorite parts of the planet, both rovers moving, and now some exciting news of recent changes observed on the planet. Wow.

Some down-sampled images from sol 1015 included a look-back at the Beacon from the other side. It appears more prominent from this direction, does it not? Hand stitched, because my other software complained...
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Here is the complete 360 degree panoramic view from Sol 1015.

Taken with the L1 pancam.

jvandriel

First time since we discovered it that we move AWAY from the Beacon : it will be soon on the FAR Rim ...
Pool is opening again

Images from opportunity are a bit late showing up today

JVandriel,
Your panoramic are always very interesting, but what's a pity they always are so tinyjava script:emoticon(':unsure:', 'smid_15')

That was an albedo pan ( i assume tied in with the MRO HiRISE obs ) - so the frames are downsized to begin with. And I for one am glad they're small...backing up this forum has gone from a 1.2 gig operation to > 2 gig almost entirely due to the huge number of attachments that are being uploaded recently.

Doug

Doug,

You may need a HiCapacity backup device.

Chris

HiDrive

Thing is - I'll fill it with HiSTUFF .

Odyssey's safe moded, possibly from some unrest on the sun. It should be back online in a few days.
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a quick false-color panorama:

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The usual high standard Nirgal, very pleasing to the eye indeed. Victoria - the crater that just keeps giving and giving...!

I really want a close look at "Hoy" tho... keep going Oppy, keep going...

another data pinch

http://athena.cornell.edu/news/mubss/

Here is my coloured version of the L2 Pancam view

on Sol 1019.

jvandriel

and the L2 Pancam view in the drive direction

on Sol 1019.

jvandriel

Since the Odyssey safe mode seems to have thrown a spanner in the works as far a images MER images are concerned, we'll have to make do with what we have. So here is the Bottomless Bay mosaic with luminosity from the full resolution L2 and colour from the L257 64x64 thumbnails.



James

Excellent work, James!
I taken the freedom to sharpen the luminance channel of this mosaic, lot of details are now visible:

FYI, one of the pancam shots planned (and hopefully taken) on sol 1021 is named "Islas Baleares".

01021 p2438.08 6 0 0 6 1 13 pancam_islas_baleares_L257

I'm pretty sure some of you know them or have already been there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balearic_Islands

Good to see the Gecko looking so chilled and happy! As it happens, one of those islands hosts a popular club called "Space". I'm sure there's a moral in there somewhere...

The details of the cross-bedding emerging are fantastic. Do I remember someone (Steve Squyres? I've heard a lot of Steve lately, what with Doug's interview, the lecture, the radio programme. I'm spoiled!) mentioning cross-bedding as indicative of dunes, as opposed to running water? Or is it the case that it's consistent with both, but that festoon cross-bedding is (one indicator) that it has to be running water, as opposed to aeolian deposits? Looking at the size of the most obvious examples, I can more easily imagine wind-driven sand /dunes/ than watery sand /banks/. (And we all know what a great guide uneducated intuition is to these sorts of things..

Some new hazcams and navcams are down at Exploratorium

I'm pretty sure these are the Islas Baleares (from the sol 1016 navcams)

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James

A story on New Scienctist about a blueberries at victoria

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn10...lueberries.html

Steve is heavily quoted

~pdp8

"a bathtub-ring of blueberries"


Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice simile.

That's the same darn blueberry image we argued about earlier. Remember the discussion of cone-shaped berries versus spherical? SS has also used the bathtub ring analogy (I think it is a great analogy) several times previously to describe the concept that the concretions diminished in size and possibly disappeared altogether as Opportunity climbed in elevation, and probably stratigraphically, above an ancient water table.

I think it was a decent article, but it is mostly recycled information from other sources.

Thx for pointing that. They are much smaller then their terrestrial equivalents.

Looking across Bottomless Bay in long baseline 3D. L2 pancams from sol 1019 and 1021:
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Imagined sunset at Bottomless Bay...

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Stu, very nice!

Has anyone put together the complete navcam pan for 12/15 or did I just miss it in another thread?

Panorama from Sol 1028. Taken with the L0 navcam.

As soon as the other images are down, I will complete

the panorama.

jvandriel

Everyone providing a "local" look into into Mars deserves a Xmas present...
That includes you...
Come up with your best wishes!
...And thank you!

Couldn't resist...

Here is jvandriel's pan on polar form.

Phil

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Stretching Autostitch to the limit and added 1 image.

Panorama taken on Sol 1021 and 1023 with the

R0 Navcam.

jvandriel