Ah, so I heard what you said and understood what you meant...

Sometimes, as a geologist, one can get a bit pedantic with empty precision in terminology.

You were correct-- those Turkey Haven and North Haven pics are tremendous.

--Bill

Many thanks for your insightful blog, Matt.

Hey Matt... thanks for the blog with the crazy good inside info!

"Turkey Haven" looking south... I think... I'm a little lost after not really paying attention the past couple of days...

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Exactly. Here's a polar view put together with a GE image.
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Sol 2778 navcam (pré-drive) :


And Sol 2779 color pan of the ridge. Lovely colors there .

I think this is right. Turkey Haven seems to be referenced as the one right under our nose; we'll be IDD'ing this boss through the Thanksgiving weekend.

"Winter Haven" might be another name floating around, which is ~15m NE of Oppy right now. It has even greater northerly slopes than Turkey Haven, which is at about 15 degrees as is!

I don't know if "Winter Haven" is the winter haven, but it certainly is a candidate. Since it doesn't an an official associated target in our tactical database (for now), I would guess that it was just the name the science team chose on a whim. That seemed to be the way of things at the SOWG meeting for 2778/9...

Interesting how I'm knee-deep with the team and I don't know these things!

-m

Some new interviewy goodness on my blog, if anyone would like a look...

http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2011/...ask-the-experts

Here we are at long last! Almost at the summit of the peak we've NOT been gazing up at all these long months.

The summit of the peak we've been gazing down on? (when we could see it at all)

Phil

Hey Stu, thank you for the 'Wray and Ray' interview and your blog with the crazy good inside info! (hey! i just said that somewhere else )

Agreed. Dynamite interviews, Stu; provided a great deal of insight into Oppy's present findings & activities!

New pics dribbling in...

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I love it. Keep those science interviews coming, Stu.

Is that the 'dagger' in view now, two thirds of the way across this image? http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...PHP1604R0M1.JPG

An experiment with stitching 3D images, this one from Sol 2279:

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Just one more for tonight: interesting rock layers, or veins, that stick out in this crop from Sol 2780 that recently came down:

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And lots of other new and strange looking rocks here at the top of Cape York. The RAT is gnashing its teeth!

May be the "dagger". See Tesheiner's post #473:

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=180368

--Bill

...and stretttttccccccccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

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Yep, that looks pretty Daggerish, or at least Daggeresque, to me...

( Anyone else feel a bit dizzy looking at that..? )

Closer to viewing it, but not quite.

Sol 2779 Navcam pan. We can clearly see the contour of the "dagger" here.

Ha! Nothing is clear to me. Is this it?
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That's what I'm taking to be It, yep. Clearer on my stretch...

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Edit: hmmmm. Not so sure now after taking a look on Google Earth... I think maybe the Dagger is still round the bend a bit...

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I'm quite sure I see the 'lobe' of dark material extending beyond the contours of Cape York.. and the dagger is in sight partially, but it's a shallow feature seen at a very low angle from here... like Tesheiner's post...

I think we are seeing the Dagger, but heavily foreshortened since CY is so flat for the most part. Here are some measurements to back that up. I've identified a little knob in both orbital and navcam views (indicated with a white arrow in both). (The navcam is a stack of L/R to improve S/N.) The far side of the "mouth" of the Dagger should be 8 degrees to the right of that knob. We can now see plenty more than that. So it looks like the little dark notch in Stu's stretch is the Dagger.
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Yup, seems clear to me.

Edit.

Sol 2776 update. A color mosaic.

In the top image of fredk's post, the dagger looks like it could be the continuation of a mountain stream. Perhaps water pouring down the hillside in a narrow stream could provide the force needed to carve the dagger.

Maybe I'm wrong but, sorry, I really doubt : otherwise we would have seen many of those kind of "watery" features on other slopes around the rim of Endeavour Crater where, I think, there is at least a minimum of continuity in its geological features. Why just a stream here and not elsewhere ?
Anyway, I agree with you that the Dagger is a strange feature and that it worths a visit...

The Pancam L2 views on Sol 2779 and Sol 2780
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Jan van Driel

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Looks like Oppy reached the top of the ridge.
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The Navcam L0 panoramic view on Sol 2778 and Sol 2779
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Jan van Driel

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Agreed, and also there's the slope problem: the slope at the "Dagger" is into Endeavour, so basically perpendicular to the length of the Dagger. And it's presumably been like that as long as Endeavour's been here.