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Tag Archives: Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse
Opportunity report, Sol 4331, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
April 4, 2016: Opportunity Soldiers through Martian March Madness: As March Madness on Earth sent sports fans into their annual kinetic frenzy watching more than 60 American teams battle it out for college basketball’s grandest title, Opportunity was experiencing her … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse
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Opportunity: Moving higher for firmer ground & clay minerals
Sol 4323, March 23, 2016. Opportunity is exploring Marathon Valley because orbital spectrometry found exposures of water-altered clay minerals in the valley. But with the ground proving too loose to allow Opportunity to reach its intended outcrop target at Pvt. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, clay minerals, Curiosity, Gale Crater, LPSC 2016, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Naukluft Plateau, phyllosilicates, Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse, smectites, Stimson Formation
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Opportunity: Doing donuts in the dirt
Sol 4322, March 21, 2016. While the rover can’t get up the slope of Knudsen Ridge to examine the Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse target close up, the Pancam (in Holger Isenberg‘s color reconstruction) reveals interesting, if subtle, variations in the churned … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse
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Opportunity: Pancam at Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse
Sols 4303-04, March 2-3, 2016. Opportunity is parked at the foot of Knudsen Ridge, where the Pancam is using multi-wavelength images to document the target dubbed Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse. Below is a composite using false-color images by Holger Isenberg. At … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse
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Opportunity: Studying Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse
Sol 4298, February 26, 2016. As the Navcam shoots a sequence from its study area at the foot of Knudsen Ridge down Marathon Valley to the east (above), the Pancam takes two multi-filtered frames on a target named Pvt. Joseph … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse
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