[meteorite-list] Opportunity: 'Victoria Crater' After Sol 950 Drive

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Sep 27 15:58:43 2006
Message-ID: <006b01c6e26f$4d169290$fc714b44_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi,

    For anyone who wants a preview peek over the rim
of the Victoria Crater, there is an animated model of the
Victoria Crater, which is viewable in a movie that
rotates in a circle around the crater, constructed by
the USGS from elevation data derived from MOC
images.
    It can be downloaded (21 Mbytes) in either
AVI or MOV format at this site:
http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=22106

Sterling K. Webb
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Opportunity: 'Victoria Crater' After Sol 950 Drive


>
> http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20060927a.html
>
> Press Release Images: Opportunity
>
> 'Victoria' After Sol 950 Drive
> September 27, 2006
>
> [Image]
> This image is a combinaation of six exposures taken by Opportunity's
> navagation camera. The images were taken within about 20 meters of the
> rim of 'Victoria Crater' The scalloped shape of the crater is visible on
> the left edge.
>
> A drive of about 30 meters (about 100 feet) on the 950th Martian day, or
> sol, of Opportunity's exploration of Mars' Meridiani Planum region
> (Sept. 25, 2006) brought the NASA rover to within about 20 meters (about
> 66 feet) of the rim of "Victoria Crater." From that position, the
> rover's navigation camera took the six exposures combined into this
> view. The scalloped shape of the crater is visible on the left edge. Due
> to a small dune or ripple close to the nearest part of the rim, the
> scientists and engineers on the rover team planned on sol 951 to drive
> to the right of the ripple, but not quite all the way to the rim, then
> to proceed to the rim the following sol. The image is presented in
> cylindrical projection with geometric seam correction.
>
> Victoria Crater is about 800 meters (one-half mile) in diameter, about
> five times wider than "Endurance Crater," which Opportunity spent six
> months examining in 2004, and about 40 times wider than "Eagle Crater,"
> where Opportunity first landed. The great lure of Victoria is the
> expectation that a thick stack of geological layers will be exposed in
> the crater walls, potentially several times the thickness that was
> previously studied at Endurance and therefore, potentially preserving
> several times the historical record.
>
> Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
>
> http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20060927a/merb_sol950_ncam_cyl-B951R1.jpg
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