check Opportunity Rover: Strange Samples at Valley Overlook

8 years 4 months ago #5953 by Todd
These images, taken by Opportunity Rover, shows a collection of purple and blue samples sitting on the Marathon Valley Overlook. Two samples were examined. A sample named "Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau" was examined by the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer and was found to have large amounts of aluminum and silicon. Just to note, those are two alloys used in casting for its strength. The other sample was named "Sergeant Charles Floyd" and was examined by the microscopic imager . It is a unique scene, with objects of various colors and strange shapes. The image below is a composite of two Opportunity Pan-cam frames taken on 3946. I processed these images from the PDS raw .img files.



Below, another image of Valley Overlook taken later on Sol 3948 by Opportunity's Pan-cam.



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