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Enormous Cave near Spirit site?
About four kilometers to the SE, in the Columbia Hills, is what looks
like it could be a gigantic cave. Check out this huge image: http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/...1301467.25.gif Be sure to click to maximize the image. It could be shadow but I don't think so. It looks like it might have been an impact into the side of the hill. This looks like a very good end mission goal. Although a solar powered rover might not feel too welcome in a cave. Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Enormous Cave near Spirit site?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Buck Galaxy wrote:
About four kilometers to the SE, in the Columbia Hills, is what looks like it could be a gigantic cave. Check out this huge image: http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/...1301467.25.gif Be sure to click to maximize the image. It could be shadow but I don't think so. It looks like it might have been an impact into the side of the hill. This looks like a very good end mission goal. Although a solar powered rover might not feel too welcome in a cave. Thanks for these references. However as this 4.5 meg .gif file is beyond my meager resources, is there a .jpg version or a much smaller .gif? |
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Enormous Cave near Spirit site?
William Elliot wrote in message ...
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Buck Galaxy wrote: About four kilometers to the SE, in the Columbia Hills, is what looks like it could be a gigantic cave. Check out this huge image: http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/...1301467.25.gif Be sure to click to maximize the image. It could be shadow but I don't think so. It looks like it might have been an impact into the side of the hill. This looks like a very good end mission goal. Although a solar powered rover might not feel too welcome in a cave. Thanks for these references. However as this 4.5 meg .gif file is beyond my meager resources, is there a .jpg version or a much smaller .gif? Being a caver, I tend to recognize "cavish" features and this is not an obvious one. I have seen far better candidates on Mars where flows obviously end in "sinks". I'd like to see some analysis of rock type in such features. I take my kids caving and tell them of the adventures they might have in exploring lava tubes on the moon or the caves of Mars. |
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Enormous Cave near Spirit site?
Thanks for the picture link. Based on what I've ready, 4.5 Km would be too far
for the rover to travel in its lifetime on the planet. They're looking at maybe 200 sols for each rover total. They *might* get to the hills with spirit, but they don't sound all that confident. It is a very rocky area in Gusev crater and I suspect the going will be far too slow to get more than 1.5 km in the total life of the rover. Opportunity has a better shot at going a long distance simply because it has few rocks in its way. It can probably travel more in a day than Spirit can in 5 days. |
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