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Tag Archives: Pillinger Point
Opportunity: Sol 3701, June 22, 2014
The left-side Pancam looks down and examines the Mayfield target area on Murray Ridge, in a false-color composite image made by Holger Isenberg using filtered Pancam frames. (More about Opportunity at Murray Ridge’s Pillinger Point.) Opportunity raw images, its latest … Continue reading
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Tagged Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Murray Ridge, NASA, Opportunity, Pillinger Point, Solander Point
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Opportunity explores aluminum-bearing site
With its solar panels their cleanest in years, NASA’s decade-old Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is inspecting a section of crater-rim ridgeline chosen as a priority target due to evidence of a water-related mineral. Orbital observations of the site by another … Continue reading
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Tagged aluminum phyllosilicates, aluminum-hydroxyl clays, clay minerals, clays, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MER, montmorillonites, Murray Ridge, NASA, Opportunity, Pillinger Point, smectites, Solander Point
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Opportunity, Sol 3701, June 22, 2014
The summit of Cape Tribulation, the next rim segment to the south, rises in the distance behind the local summit of Murray Ridge in this left-side Navcam image. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map.
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Murray Ridge, NASA, Opportunity, Pillinger Point, Solander Point
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Opportunity: Sol 3698, June 19, 2014
Angular outcrops with perhaps different rock types appear plentiful on Murray Ridge. Fragments of broken rock, large and small, are the natural result of the ridge being the uplifted rim of Endeavour, an ancient impact crater. (Navcam image.) Opportunity raw … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Sol 3691, June 12, 2014
Looking southeast with the Pancam at Pillinger Point on Murray Ridge, in a false-color image constructed by Holger Isenberg using filtered Pancam images. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map.
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Tagged Endeavour Crater, Holger Isenberg, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Murray Ridge, NASA, Opportunity, Pillinger Point, Solander Point
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Opportunity: Sol 3691, June 12, 2014
Exploring aluminum-rich clays along Murray Ridge. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map.
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Murray Ridge, NASA, Opportunity, Pillinger Point, Solander Point
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Opportunity: Sol 3689, June 10, 2014
Navcam looks back as Opportunity drives south-southwest along the wind-swept crest of Murray Ridge. The general area has exposures of aluminum clays plus veins of sulfates that precipitated in fractures. Opportunity raw images, its latest … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Sol 3685, June 5, 2014
What the Pancam saw on Murray Ridge, in a false-color image created by Holger Isenberg using filtered Pancam images. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map.
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Tagged Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Murray Ridge, NASA, Opportunity, Pillinger Point, Solander Point
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Opportunity: Sol 3684, June 4, 2014
Looking upward along Murray Ridge. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map.
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Opportunity hunts ancient clays
From A.J.S. Rayl’s blog at The Planetary Society: “At the western rim of Endeavour Crater, Opportunity spent the month of May exploring a new clayground along Murray Ridge and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission trundled into the 125th month … Continue reading
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Tagged aluminum phyllosilicates, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Murray Ridge, NASA, Opportunity, Pillinger Point, Solander Point
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