...Wonders if any of the sleep-deprived scientists at JPL trying to straddle developments on both rovers have made similar comments at an Oppy SOWG meeting...

Doubt it; they are considerably smarter than drunken, disreputable robots...

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False color images with reduced green and blue channel - I like it marslike

glacial feature - kames. would sure explain a lot of the features we see around here, and at Mt. Sharp.
We always think of them as moving.

http://www.landforms.eu/cairngorms/kame.htm

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/10af.html

Times are going to get interesting. With site names like Possible_Contact, Broken_Hammer, Upturned_Bed, Aft_Outcrop, site168_recon1, site168_recon2 and Chelmsford2and3 they should be very interesting.

--Bill

Don't see it.

From Sol 3092.

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Couple of new colour views... can't get on the tracking website to ID them, so apologies for the lack of labels...

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More at: http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2012/...4/catching-up-2

Sol 3098 pancam false color:

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Very nice... was just working on that one myself...

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Just by itself, this is an image of an amazing spot:

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...CRP1982L0M1.JPG

--Bill

A couple of those are very interesting names. I don't remember ever getting such nice clues to targets in the past.

The first one apparently goes by the cryptic moniker, "pancam_site168_recon1." Your second image was called, "Kirkwood_back."

Interesting angled outcrop at the base of this image, almost rectangular.

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Of all the various kinds of glacial deposits: the various moraine types, eskers, drumlins, kames, erratics, etc; kame deposits have become my favorite of them all.

I have long suspected that glacial geology may have had a significant influence on Mars. Can you point out where you suspect you see kame deposits on Cape York, because I don't see it.

Mt. Sharp may possibly be a whole different story. I'm trying to keep an open mind with regard to its genesis.

Sol 3101 hazcam anaglyph - stretched it is:

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Sol 3101 Navcam pan


Amuzing how Hugin has made the blendings on the black missing part of one frame.

Beautiful mosaic (as usual) Damien. I did the same one using Autostitch but refrained from posting because I knew you would make and post a much better one.

Here's a polar view of this site.
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May be Damien is doing a route map but refrains from.... Jajaja!
By the way you may want to rename the thread "Oppy snail route map" these days.

Oppy's doing just fine, taking her time. She's an 8 year old kid, locked on her own in a geological sweetie shop. Why would she rush?

I was refering at the SHAPE of the route (have a look)! It does look as a snail.
I fully agree with you, no rush, specialy now that we've found such a nice spot. Sorry for the confusion.

Ahhh.... see what you mean...

How about this for right-angles? (x-eye stereo)

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Wow, we've found the remains of the ancient Inca mouse city. They even had cavity walls.

Heavily salted mud will dry like that in seasonal lake beds - it's caused by the salt crystallization within the the silt and mud. (Not saying that's what is going on here.)

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...EGP0142L0M1.JPG

The whitish rock here may have a dense covering of vein material.

Kames as glacial geo builders are an excellent way to build up structures in a non-moving glacier. They are known for trapping liquids below deck, and for damming up side stream sediments.

We only think of glacial features created by moving ice, but if the entire body is covered, as in an ice ball model, it would be one of the only geo active models to work with. That, and the mud volcano theories of Gold. I am thinking almost all the hydro features we are seeing are actually from liquid methanol from old methane hydrates deposits. Not sure what kind of minerological deposits this would create, as the undersea ones here do hydrocarbon traps, and noble gases, and water purification of all things.

If methanol was the carrier, instead of water, i wonder what depositions from solution it would deposit, and if it has a preferential surficial cracking pattern like the three section mud dessication map. testable? load up some methonol and let it dry in the freezer on some different substrates? see if it dries at right angles?

Am thinking of all the erratics we find on all the surfaces, and the wild cross bedding and tall layered hills and hoodoos we are seeing at Mt. Sharp.
There are very few thing that can build up a layered peak in the center of a crater, but a mud volcano that punches up, then has the flows infall in a kame pit might build up just the structures we are seeing.

With such a low atmospheric density, nearly all meteorites should be leaving some cratering, but we dont see any small , or even many mid sized craters near these impactors.



this post is prob gonna be pulled too.....

There's nothing special with this image itself. Just one of a set of navcam shots taken as part of the "end-of-drive" sequences.

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But I just would like to remark that it was available for everyone on the net less than three hours after it was taken on mars.

Image info for: 1N403749549EFFBWGXP1657L0M1
Spacecraft: OPPORTUNITY
Camera: NAVCAM, left
Spacecraft clock: 403749549 (seconds since January 1, 2000, 11:58:55.816 UTC)
Product type: EDR full frame
Site number: BW
Drive number: GX
Command sequence number: P1657 (PMA or remote sensing instrument) NAVCAM
Producer: MIPL/JPL
Acquisition time (Earth): Wed Oct 17 14:27:02 2012
Time zone: Hora estßndar romance
Acquisition time (Mars): Sol 3104 13:35:33
Current local time (Earth): Wed Oct 17 17:19:14 2012
Current local time (Mars): Sol 3104 16:19:39
Elapsed time since acquisition: 0 days, 02:48:36

On another topic, tosol (3104) and yestersol were driving days. Map update soon.

Sols 3103 & 3104 Navcam pans

Another drive or two this way and we will need a new thread.

The last three pans - thanks Ant103! - in circular form. If you save them the file names identify the sol.

Phil

3098:
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3103:
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3104:
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Very nice new pics down. Fantastic formation from Sol 3103:

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From 3101:

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Just one more for now, too nice not to share!

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Really nice stuff!
I did a try on a partial sol 3105 sort of anaglyph:

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All angles might be really off though

Very interesting place...

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Pretty cool stuff. I think may favorite is just to the west on Sol 3105, top and about 1/3 from the left in this anaglyph, top in the stereo pair.

I recently got red/blue glasses, so I really have to agree: this place is marvelous...

here is an interesting image ( SOL 3101 ) of a L257 set
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It certainly is. That may help the scientist but it complicates the picture for me.

Looks very different from the side on sol 3107, but I like it. This view is facing west. Edit: the view looks very different because the drive was longer than I thought and we're in a completely different place than I originally thought. "Never mind"

Since Opportunity is nearly at the top, I wonder how long it will be before we see her tracks from 350 sols ago. Possibly not long.

Also sol 3107:

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Looks like Oppy has found her very own mini Mt Sharp...

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Oh my... look at that...

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Good grief. That is a ridiculously complex little formation, isn't it?

VERY nice anaglyph, Stu!

The PCDB label for the whole outcrop (not just the rather striking broken part on the end) is "Stobie". The 5x1 Pancam mosaic was taken on sol 3107 before the drive.

Sol 3107 pancam pan - "Stobie":

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I did only found images for a 3x1 so far ...

My thoughts exactly when I looked at MHowards panorama before I saw your post ...

It's kind of an unusual 5x1, composed of 3 'horizontal' subframes (the ones you've got), a full-frame (or close to it) to the right of that and a 'vertical' subframe on the far right. And then there's a 3x1 of images closer to the rover, also labelled "Stobie". I'll post a context view if some more color comes down.

These are some of the most astounding outcrops I have ever seen. I wonder if Opportunity will ever be able to leave Cape York.

Here's my crude attempt on the navcam mosaic taken at the current site (sol 3107).
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Quite close to the site she was during sols 2751-2754.
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Let's see if I can find a mosaic from that timeframe. Found this post of yours.