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Tag Archives: Wdowiak Ridge
Opportunity: Crowded work space
Sol 3812, October 14, 2014. Shades Valley is the rock target in the center foreground with a light-tone upper surface. All around lie smaller rocks, most or all of them being ejected debris from the Ulysses Crater impact. Several may … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Shades Valley, Ulysses Crater, Wdowiak Ridge
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Opportunity field report: October 10, 2014
Sol 3808 (October 10, 2014) Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: “Opportunity continues to work its way up Wdowiak Ridge as it ascend southward along the rim of Endeavour … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Comet C/2013 A1, Comet Siding Spring, Endeavour Crater, Lipscomb, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Ulysses Crater, Wdowiak Ridge
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Opportunity: Rock ejecta with sharp edges
Sol 3803, October 5, 2014. Lipscomb rock, a piece of ejected debris from the Ulysses Crater impact, displays a sharp-featured, lightly weathered appearance. False-color image by Holger Isenberg using filtered Pancam frames. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Holger Isenberg, Lipscomb, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Ulysses Crater, Wdowiak Ridge
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Opportunity report by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
October 4, 2014: Opportunity Gets Extension, Returns Killer Panoramas, and Roves onto Mystery Rocks. While the winds of Martian spring blew through Meridiani Planum in September, Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity reformatted its Flash memory then continued exploring Wdowiak Ridge on … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Ulysses Crater, Wdowiak Ridge
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Opportunity: Ruffner rock in color
Sol 3798, September 30, 2014. The big rock on the rim of Ulysses Crater, as seen in a false-color image created by Holger Isenberg using filtered Pancam frames. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map.
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Holger Isenberg, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Ruffner, Ulysses Crater, Wdowiak Ridge
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Opportunity: Close-up on rock shards
Sol 3800 (!), October 2, 2014. The Microscopic Imager captures shards of rock on the rim of Ulysses Crater, in a two-frame composite. Below: what the Hazcam saw (contrast adjusted). Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Ulysses Crater, Wdowiak Ridge
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Opportunity: Ulysses rim rocks in color
Sol 3793, September 25, 2014. Two false-color images of rocks on the rim of Ulysses (Raimund at right, Hoover at bottom in the image below) join yesterday‘s, as created by Holger Isenberg using filtered Pancam frames. Opportunity raw … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Hoover, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Raimund, Ulysses Crater, Wdowiak Ridge
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Opportunity: Examining Ulysses ejecta
Sol 3793, September 25, 2014. The front Hazcam shows Opportunity at work in the local afternoon on rock targets Hoover and Raimund lying on the rim of Ulysses Crater. (The thumbnail has its contrast adjusted to deal with lens flare.) … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Hoover, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Raimund, Ulysses Crater, Wdowiak Ridge
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Opportunity: Rock on the rim
Sol 3791, September 22, 2014. Ulysses Crater looks lopsided because it was formed by a meteorite impact on the sloping surface of Wdowiak Ridge. (Also, the meteorite likely struck at an angle to the surface itself.) The result is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Ulysses Crater, Wdowiak Ridge
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Opportunity field report: September 22, 2014
Sol 3790 (September 22, 2014) Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: “There was a stand-down of activities on Opportunity for a week or so as we emptied the flash … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Ulysses Crater, Wdowiak Ridge
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