Scientists Call Mars Rock Photos a 'Holy Grail' - Opportunity is in a crater

Yahoo ^ | Mon Jan 26, 2:38 PM ET | Ben Berkowitz

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Opportunity: All 360 Raw Images

[bonesmccoy]

So, where are all our geologists?

Let's get to those rocks and go digging!

[Phil V.]

Without stereo these rocks appear to be in the face (wall) of the crater . . . stereoscope shows that they are a "ridge" unto themselves . . .the crater "rim" is beyond the rock "ridge".

[Phil V.]

Without stereo these rocks appear to be in the face (wall) of the crater . . . stereoscope shows that they are a "ridge" unto themselves . . .the crater "rim" is beyond the rock "ridge".

[Phil V.]

If you'd like to be on or off this MARS ping list please FRail me

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So were the rocks moved by the impact or simply uncovered?

[Phil V.]

Beats me! Though I'll not be surprised if in the coming days "crater" gets refined to "depression" or "hollow".

[Phil V.]

. . . more stereo pics over here . . .

[Moonman62]

She said the team may try to access that flash memory tomorrow, where scientific and photographic data is stored, to do a health check. The day after, she said, they may try to delete some files, believing an excess of data in memory may be part of the problem.

Good luck to them, but from here it sure looks like they are taking their sweet time. It's a good thing they work for the government.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Part Analysis Paralysis, part fear of screwing it up more than it already is I imagine.

[Cold Heat]

Awesome pics. The limitations of the machine are going to drive them nuts however.

B..u...m.....p...ing for later

[LibWhacker]

Weird!

[ambrose]

My understanding is that JPL is staffed only to cover one rover. They sent out two figuring they'd be lucky if only one of them landed safely...

[Molly Pitcher]

Mars and geology ping

[bobwoodard]

They addressed this during the briefing the other day and they have 2 different fully staffed teams on 2 different schedules (since the 2 landers are on opposite sides of the planet).

From what they said, there isn't a whole lot of extra staff and wouldn't want to keep this up for any protracted length of time, but this is a unique opportunity.

[Bernard Marx]

stereoscope shows that they are a "ridge" unto themselves

Any suggestions on how a stereo viewer can be jury-rigged? I'd love to see these shots in 3-D but don't know how.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Dead Corpse]

If you look at that like one of those Magic Eye photos...

Well...

Nothing really. It just kinda gives you a headache... ;-)

[RightWhale]

More of a vein than a bulge. This is better 3-D than that comic-book red-green NASA stuff. Do they think we are 8 years old?