[meteorite-list] That's it! I'm heading for Mars.

From: Greg Catterton <star_wars_collector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:45:30 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <617875.13713.qm_at_web46412.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Im sure you will be standing in line behind Mike Farmer!

PS... where has he been? have not seen a post from him in some time.

Greg C.
www.wanderingstarmeteorites.com
IMCA 4682


--- On Sun, 10/18/09, Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:

> From: Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] That's it! I'm heading for Mars.
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 8:46 PM
> http://www.universetoday.com/2009/10/18/opportunity-discovers-still-another-meteorite-findit-on-google-mar/
>
> Opportunity must be driving down Meteorite Alley on Mars.
> The rover has come
> across still another meteorite, the third space rock it has
> found the past few
> months, and fourth overall since 2005. This one is called
> Mackinac, which
> continues the "island" theme by which the science team has
> dubbed the
> meteorites. Block Island was found in July 2009, and
> Opportunity came upon
> Shelter Island the end of September (around sol 2020 for
> the rover). Mackinac
> was found on sol 2034 (Oct 13), and it looks very similar
> in composition to the
> two earlier meteorites. Opportunity analyzed the meteorites
> and found they were
> made of iron and nickel. The image above was color
> calibrated by Stu Atkinson,
> who hangs out at UnmannedSpaceflight.com. You can find all
> the raw images
> Opportunity has sent back to Earth here, and raw images
> from Spirit here.
>
> You can also follow Opportunity's travels through Meridiani
> Planum on its way to
> Endeavour Crater at one of Stu's blogs, Road to Endeavour.
> But ? and this is
> very fun ? you can also follow Oppy on Google Mars, and
> see where it has found
> the meteorites. Tesheiner on UMSF regularly updates a route
> map, pinpointing the
> spots where the rover stops. Just go to Google Mars
> (download Google Earth and
> Mars here if you don't have it yet), open up Google Mars,
> then click on this
> link, download and open, and you'll be transported to
> Opportunity's location on
> Mars. Extreme, extreme cool.
>
> Now, you'll notice that region of Google Mars doesn't have
> high-resolution
> imagery yet. They're working on it. In the meantime,
> though, if you want to see
> a great mosaic of the terrain that Opportunity is traveling
> through, check out
> this image below created by Ken Kremer, also of UMSF. This
> is from Sol 2010
> showing Nereus Crater and dunes on the Road to Endeavour,
> where Oppy was just
> prior to discovering Shelter Island. Ken created this
> mosaic from raw images
> from the Cornell Pancam raw images, stitching multiple
> images together and
> calibrating the color.
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