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

[Greg Catterton]

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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