Dan, Curiosity is designed to handle a grade of up to 20 degrees, and so far nothing on its planned route up the base of Mt. Sharp involves grades above 10 degrees. Seth -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Holmes Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:57 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Favorites so far How steep of a grade is Sharp peak vs. what Curiosity is designed to go up? Any ideas how high they are planning on going up the peak? I'm sure they have plenty of testing (and a backup here that they can test the pathfinding), and probably even a plan if it tips over. I'm still amazed that we have a nuclear powered jeep on Mars. Dan On Aug 29, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Rodger C. Fry <rcfry@comcast.net> wrote:
Speaking as a geologist, the layering was very predicted and is at the heart of the interest in this area. Sharp peak has exposed up its flanks thousands of feet of sedimentary section representing a good part of the early depositional history on Mars. As Curiosity scales up the side of Sharp peak, it will traverse through this section and record a chronological representation of Mars' past. I can't wait until they start to turn the pages of this most interesting book.
Rodger C. Fry
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Siegfried Jachmann Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 9:06 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Favorites so far
Was the layering expected/predicted?
Sig
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
I'm watching the replay of yesterday's NASA news conference and I saw these images that I'm calling my favorites so far: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/PIA16105u_malin04MAINIMAGE-br2.jp g http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/PIA16104_malin03m100focus-br2.jpg
Somehow I get the feeling that geologists (Rodger?) will salivate when they see them. :)
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