Tag Archives: Endeavour Crater

Opportunty: Pancam profiles San Juan Pueblo

Posted on April 5, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 5046, April 4, 2018. The science team commanded Opportunity to shoot a series of filtered Pancam images on the parts of the San Juan Pueblo outcrop that lie a short distance upslope from the rover. The above composite uses … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: MI closeup on San Juan Pueblo

Posted on April 4, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 5045, April 3, 2018. The outcrop named San Juan Pueblo shows a vesicular texture studded with hollows and voids, seen in this 2×2 mosaic by Opportunity’s Microscopic Imager. If this were a piece of basalt on Earth, it would … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Vesicular rocks at San Juan Pueblo

Posted on April 2, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 5042, March 31, 2018. San Juan Pueblo is the name of the target Opportunity is now examining. Its rocks show vesicles — hollow voids — that are found commonly with volcanic rocks that form when gas-rich magma reaches the … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Toward the valley’s southern side

Posted on March 30, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 5040, March 29, 2018. The rover took a set of Pancam frames with Aguas Calientes in full sunlight, then it turned to the south-southeast and motored a distance of 4.2 meters (almost 14 feet). This moved Opportunity toward the … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Backing away from Aguas Calientes

Posted on March 28, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 5038, March 27, 2018. Opportunity backed uphill away from the Aguas Calientes grind target a distance of a meter (40 inches). Then the Pancam shot (right) a multi-filtered set of frames showing the grind target and nearby parts of … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Aguas Calientes rimshots

Posted on March 26, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 5036, March 25, 2018. Over the weekend, Opportunity kept the Microscopic Imager with its nose to the outcrop, shooting a pair of images (above) on the upper rim of the grind hole in Aguas Calientes. Then it dropped below … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Aguas Calientes, deeper grind

Posted on March 22, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 5033, March 22, 2018. The Microscopic Imager reshot Aguas Calientes after Opportunity’s Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) ground the hole a little deeper to remove all trace of the surface texture and reveal the rock’s internal fabric. (Earlier MI mosaics … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Looking upslope from Aguas Calientes

Posted on March 20, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 5031, March 20, 2018. While Opportunity’s instrument arm is busy with the just-RATted target Aguas Calientes, the Navcam shot a three-frame composite looking upslope across Perseverance Valley’s channels toward the southwest. Rover tracks at right show Opportunity’s path as … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Grinding into Aguas Calientes

Posted on March 17, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 5028, March 17, 2018. After brushing the target named Aguas Calientes, mission scientists commanded the Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) to grind a shallow hole 2 millimeters (about 0.1 inch) into the rock. Then the Microscopic Imager shot the four … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: RATting on Aguas Calientes

Posted on March 15, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 5026, March 15, 2018. For the first time in more than a year, Opportunity’s mission team put the rover’s Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) to work on a target: Aguas Calientes, part of the large Ysleta del Sur outcrop. The … Continue reading →

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