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Tag Archives: Marathon Valley
Opportunity: Mini-mesa in the valley
Sol 4415-16, June 25-26, 2016. This little flat-topped feature, a mini-mesa sitting on the floor of Marathon Valley with the profile of a tree-stump, is probably an erosional remnant. The Navcam composite view was taken on Sol 4415 and looks northward … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, clay minerals, Endeavour Crater, Hinners Point, Jean-Baptiste La Jeunesse, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, phyllosilicates, the Mesa, the Stump
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Opportunity: York target, post-brushing
Sol 4112, June 22, 2016. Opportunity is currently in the middle of one of the clay mineral areas spotted from orbit by the CRISM spectrometer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The target area the rover is examining is dubbed York, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, clay minerals, CRISM, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MER, MRO, NASA, Opportunity, phyllosilicates, York
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Opportunity field report, June 20, 2016
Sol 4410, June 20, 2016; Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: Opportunity is finishing up its activities here in Marathon Valley on the western rim of the 22 km-diameter … 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 wrapping it up at Marathon Valley
“Marathon Valley,” slicing through a large crater’s rim on Mars, has provided fruitful research targets for NASA’s Opportunity rover since July 2015, but the rover may soon move on. Opportunity recently collected a sweeping panorama from near the western end … 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: George Drouillard
Sol 4400 (!), June 10, 2016. The rover is parked at a target named for George Drouillard, a civilian interpreter and scout on the Lewis & Clark expedition. At right is a composite of Microscopic Imager views of the target … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, George Drouillard, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity
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Opportunity: Probing for clays
Sol 4398, June 8, 2016. Opportunity is continuing its examination of the rocks near the head of Marathon Valley. Above: the Navcam view east (click to enlarge). At right: the instrument arm’s “workplane,” in a false-color Pancam composite by Holger … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity
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Opportunity report, Sol 4391, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
June 6, 2016: Opportunity Scuffs Up Signs of Past Water at Marathon Valley: Opportunity spent the first half of May digging into an outcrop, taking dozens of panoramic images from her site on the south wall of Marathon Valley at … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pvt. Joseph Field
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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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