What is happening at 'Endurance'?

Any news about what has happened as 'Opportunity' reached
the rim at the 'Endurance' crater, Meridiani Planum?
It must have been able to reached the rim and taken some images
of the bottom and walls of the crater by now...
Must have revealed to the operaters if it is possible to get in & out
of the crater, and likewise to the scientist what kind of rock-types
is exposed in the walls. Volcanics, or more of the sedimentary stuff?
Is JPL not letting out anything until over the weekend?

Bjørn Sørheim
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Any news about what has happened as 'Opportunity' reached
the rim at the 'Endurance' crater, Meridiani Planum?
It must have been able to reached the rim and taken some images
of the bottom and walls of the crater by now...
Must have revealed to the operaters if it is possible to get in & out
of the crater, and likewise to the scientist what kind of rock-types
is exposed in the walls. Volcanics, or more of the sedimentary stuff?
Is JPL not letting out anything until over the weekend?

Bjørn Sørheim
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Navigation Camera images of Endurance are he

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opp...am/2004-04-30/

http://www.exploratorium.edu/mars/

A panoramic view of Endurance crater:

http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/collect...ol95navcam.jpg

" Bjørn Sørheim " wrote in message
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Any news about what has happened as 'Opportunity' reached
the rim at the 'Endurance' crater, Meridiani Planum?

The NASA Rover site generally doesn't update on weekends.

On Sun, 2 May 2004 15:24:23 +0100, "newsnet"
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http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opp...am/2004-04-30/

Wanna educate the clueless as to how to open an .svg file?

wrote in message
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On Sun, 2 May 2004 15:24:23 +0100, "newsnet"
wrote:

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opp...am/2004-04-30/

Wanna educate the clueless as to how to open an .svg file?

My IE session tried to open the file and then downloaded SVGView.exe from
http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/auto/

Mind you the svg files were black, but I _could_ open them ;-)

However, there are some jpegs further down the page.
I liked the look of this one
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opp...0P1985R0M1.JPG (175Kb)

Thanks for those great links!
Seems to mee that it could very well be possible to drive down
there...
But it would be a bit hard to get to those layers in the wall
on the opposite side. Some very high resolution pictures
could reveal a lot about what has been going on here in
the lake deposition times.
And the exposed rocks as one drives down would also tell
a similar story.

Bjørn Sørheim

"newsnet" wrote:

Navigation Camera images of Endurance are he

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opp...am/2004-04-30/

http://www.exploratorium.edu/mars/

A panoramic view of Endurance crater:

http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/collect...ol95navcam.jpg



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On a sunny day (Sun, 02 May 2004 15:44:36 GMT) it happened (
Bjørn Sørheim ) wrote in :

A panoramic view of Endurance crater:

http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/collect...ol95navcam.jpg
WOW!
What are those white flat surfaces with cracks?
Ice?
JP

newsnet wrote:

Navigation Camera images of Endurance are he

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opp...am/2004-04-30/

http://www.exploratorium.edu/mars/

A panoramic view of Endurance crater:

http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/collect...ol95navcam.jpg

Interesting! So the 'exploratorium' site does indeed get even the raw
images before they appear on the JPL site.

" Bjørn Sørheim " wrote in message
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Thanks for those great links!
Seems to mee that it could very well be possible to drive down
there...

It would probably be relatively easy to drive into the crater.
Driving back out, on the other hand, is an entirely different matter.
From a quick look at the panorama, I expect they will not drive
very far down into the crater, if at all. The risk of being unable
to drive back out will outweigh the potential for discovery.
There are too many other places yet to see.

I definitely think they are the same kind of bedrock outcrops they
for so long time scrutinized at the landing site - the 'Eagle' crater.
They seem to be in all locations between 'Eagle' and 'Endurance'
also. Sedimentary (water)/evaporites with hematite concretion
nodules a.k.a. martian 'blueberries'.

Bjørn

Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sun, 02 May 2004 15:44:36 GMT) it happened (
Bjørn Sørheim ) wrote in :

WOW!
What are those white flat surfaces with cracks?
Ice?
JP

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