Well - quite. I certainly don't want to see it.

I think sometimes, when there is potential confusion as to which image is being referred to, it is beneficial to include the image in the quote. Generally we edit the quote to include only the relevant bits being referred to -- sometimes this would include an image. Last time I did this I went to the effort of saving a local copy of the image and re-uploading it with the post, but in this instance it wasn't that critical.

Oooooooooooo la la.

Some of the folks here are looking at the commonalities between Tisdale 2 and Bagua. (Can't remember where Bagua was...)

-m

Bagua was the big rock she swung by on sol 2551, just after leaving Santa Maria.

Guys, do you know what happened to the excellent site: marsgeo.com ? Has it just changed name or is it deleted?

Bagua...

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No, Munro is definitely uglier.

I'm sure you mean "ugly" in the geologist's sense: "way more awesomer" (sic)

-m

You mean this site?

Here's aircraft carrier Tisdale 2 as seen today via pancam L2 filter.
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Part of the aircraft carrier in 3D. To my untrained eye it looks like the white surface is just a thin coating on top.

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Aft of Tisdale:

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As seen on the navcam.
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ee lad tha's dun it agin !

The guy who has trouble with anaglips had to step back in case he fell down t'oil (xlation the hole).

The whole lot has sandbagged me, especially as I'm getting in one (hopefully) never ending stream 'cs I was away from the machine for a week.

You people are quite brilliant.

Thanks to you all, and the MIR crew and the guys who build this little buggy and the guys who launched it and the guys who paid tax dollars to get it all there.

Who'd have thought it when I first started as a trainee Telecommunications Technician in 1955 when fast comms was 45 Words/minute.


Mike.

OMG, one of the best yet.

Tisdale in colour

Not trying to outdo Tesheiner's splendid Tisdale Carrier, but I couldn't resist this one. My niece eating pineapples on Mars:

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Reminds me of caliche

You probably mean navycam

Ant,
I really appreciate the crossed-eyes stereo versions. Those always look better to me than the red/blue anaglyphs.
Merci!

David

Tisdale_2
Sol 2690 flicker gifs

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And… hmmm… Yet, another Tisdale

Phew !
When I posted my rambling thanks I was on page 6, and hadn't quite grasped what 12 more pages could hold.
Ye gods and little fishes - I am the 5000.
Thank you all, I will bathe my red eyes, got to bed and dream of eating pineapples on an aircraft carrier.
Mike

Has there been a reference to Tisdale_1 ?
Could the team have spotted a post-split sibling ?

It just disappeared during the trek to Victoria. One day it was there and the next the site name was up for grabs. It was an absolutely outstanding explanation and analysis of the early MER findings and now a reminder of the ephemeral nature of internet based information. I wish I had copied it page by page.

This MUST be the most fascinating rock Oppy's come across in a long, long time...

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Some portions may be recoverable here

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&id=25257

It looks like there might be a counterpart to Tinsdale laying on the ground further north.

Tisdale foredeck just came down.

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I think this is the view left of Tisdale now, contrast cranked up to boost 3D effect (more uniformly a dull gray, otherwise). There's a stepped, lighter-toned rock back there, partly submerged, with the two big darker-toned rocks on top of it. Very interesting.

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This is Tisdale 1.
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My guess, Tisdale is the rock, 1 and 2 are target spots on it.

Phil

(EDIT: Apparently I was McStooken)

Tisdale 1 and 2 were named for the first time on these imaging sequences from sol 2686.

02686::p2584::27::4::0::0::4::2::10::pancam_tisdale_1_L257R2


02686::p2585::27::4::0::0::4::2::10::pancam_tisdale_2_L257R2


On a different matter, I saw this reference to the "faulted drives" on the weekly report:

Glad to know it was due to somethink so benign instead of a HW related issue.

'Lack of visual features', eh? What a shame they didn't have a whopping big flat-topped rocky slab...thing...right in front of them...

We didn't aim the cameras that way during that particular drive.

It's also that the turns were too big and there was a lack of features to detect a change from in the last image that the rover took.

After tonight, pending a successful drive -- and I'm telling you, the RPs yesterday really pulled some heroics to sequence it -- we'll have close-ups of the left side of Tisdale 2. I smell a week of IDD! Cool part is, I'm on shift through Wednesday. Sweet.

-m

Coool.

Something a little different: a 100(-ish) degree wide perspective view of the Navcam images from sol 2690. One thing that's more apparent to me in the anaglyph version is, behind Tisdale 2 there's what looks like perhaps a similar rock so eroded that all that's left is a light-colored pile. Tisdale 1.5? Anyway I recommend the anaglyph version.



And since it looks like it's going to be a while (maybe forever?) until the last data dropouts are fixed in the sol 2685-2688 Navcam panorama, here's a sort-of-final version with some holes.

Looks like a chunk on the left there split right off...

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Tisdale...

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Magnificent, Stu!

I am VERY anxious to see the mineralogical analysis of this beautiful little beast.

A bit of context - mhoward's pan (hole patched from the other pan) in circular form:

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Phil

August 21st is the anniversary of the date in 1770 when Cape York, the most northerly point in Australia, was named by Capt James Cook, after Prince Edward, the Duke of York. He was a brother of King George III, who would not be very popular in the US a few years later.

Thanks for the perspective, Kenny.

- From the deck planks of the HMS Endeavour to the edge of the crater Endeavour in little more than a quarter-millenium: the opportunities for exploration have changed, but the spirit of discovery is unvarying. - Western science is a Grand Endeavour indeed!

Odyssey rock garden
navcam sol 2690

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Thanks Jam Butty, works well with iTunes

Very nice, and as previoulsy speculated, is that the other half of the Tinsdale white-layer sandwich sticking out of the soil there?

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...and down to work...

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Nice shot of OPpy's tracks, after having spun around to get the arm on the target. Driving in reverse for miles across the plains, then a quick celebratory doughnut in the dirt!

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...LVP1312R0M1.JPG

The white stuff in the ground definitely seems similar to the white stuff on top of Tisdale 2,
but the rock they refer to as Tisdale 1 is out of shot to the right.

I think it is the rock in the upper right of this navcam shot, sol 2692
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Tisdale 1
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Nice driving...
Oppy is definitely showing off

Thanks Stu. Looks like another specimen of Meridianii Opportunity

Nice drive! (2692)