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Tag Archives: Cape Tribulation
Opportunity: Pancam survey near valley’s head
Sol 4383, May 23, 2016. Rover controllers directed the Panoramic Camera (Pancam) to make a survey 27 frames wide by one high showing Opportunity’s surroundings from its current location near the head of Marathon Valley. The frames were taken using … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Hinners Point, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity
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Opportunity: South floor dunes, Endeavour Crater
Sol 4380, May 20, 2016. The rover’s Pancam took a pair of multi-filtered frames looking southeast from the head of Marathon Valley. The target was the fields of dunes on the crater floor. Reconstructed into false-color by Holger Isenberg, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, dunes, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, sand dunes
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Opportunity: Where we’re at
Sol 4379, May 19, 2016. The rover is slowly exploring the head of Marathon Valley, where the rocks show evidence (detected from orbit by CRISM) of alteration by water, which produced clay minerals. This Navcam view (click to enlarge) looks … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, clay minerals, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, phyllosilicates
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Opportunity report by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
May 10, 2016: Opportunity Sleuths New Site for Smectites: After capturing a rare image of a dust devil whirling through the interior of Endeavour Crater at the end of March, Opportunity and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) team pressed on … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, clay minerals, Endeavour Crater, Hinners Point, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, phyllosilicates, smectites
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Opportunity field report, May 5, 2016
Sol 4365, May 5, 2016; Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: Opportunity arrived at its current location on sol 4345 to begin investigation of an outcrop on the crest … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, clay minerals, Endeavour Crater, Hinners Point, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, smectites
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Opportunity: Brushing Pierre Pinaut
Sol 4362, May 1 2016. In preparing for grinding into the target dubbed Pierre Pinaut, Opportunity’s science team has brushed the surface to clear away dust and small pebbles. (The unbrushed view is here.) The image at right shows a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pierre Pinaut
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Opportunity: Searching clays at the valley head
Sols 4346-7, April 15-16, 2016. Opportunity remains at the head of the valley as it shoots a multi-frame, multi-sol Pancam mosaic. This is to identify candidate targets for investigation that may be clay-rich. At right is a four-frame Microscopic Imager … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Hinners Point, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pierre Pinaut, Pierre Pineau
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Opportunity: Looking downslope
Sol 4338, April 7, 2016. After shooting the view upslope on Sol 4337, the Navcam continued its panorama from north (left side) through east to southeast (right). One frame from Sol 4337 (third from right) links the left and right … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, clay minerals, Endeavour Crater, Hinners Point, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, phyllosilicates
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Opportunity: Seeking targets upslope
Sol 4337, April 6, 2016. Three Navcam frames sketch the upslope rocks, framed by the uppermost section of Knudsen Ridge on the left and part of Hinners Point on the right. Mission scientists are looking for the best places to … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Hinners Point, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity
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Opportunity: Seeking clay minerals
Sols 4335-6, April 4-5, 2016. After driving back closer to the head of Marathon Valley, where slopes are not as steep, Opportunity’s Pancam has shot a series of filtered images to identify likely outcrop targets to examine closely. The warm-tinted … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, clay minerals, Endeavour Crater, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, phyllosilicates
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