Late Oppy Images

There are very interesting late Oppy's images back to March 27,2004. I dont think they are recently sended from rover, but kept at JPL until now, maybe in ambargoe scheme.

Below is a composite of R1,R2,R6 filters

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The striking in this image is the clear appearance of small grains or spherules accumulated mostly on the sand/dust ripple and their spectrum. Some the grains also appears forming strings

This certainly require a good explanation, IMO.

Next on this release there is an image found large burried spherules. 1P133695802EFF0884P2561R1M1.JPG

I will post them in the large burried berries thread.

1P138922213EFF2809P2261L5M1.JPG L2L5L6 R7R6R2
R1 is also taken but the camera was deoriented for a reason and the feature was not framed. Image taken at July 13,2004, released Oct 19,2004.

I have also a thread on this feature (some channels were released in their time) and guessed the feature will never be photographed again.

New late MI images are released as 22 Dec 2004. These images are taken in Sol 124,125 and 162.

One interesting aspect of these images is they show interesting berries, typically with grooves, with the best focus taken on their sequences. Note that only berries are best focused but not the background.

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1M139192209EFF2821P2997M2M1.JPG,
1M139192463EFF2821P2997M2M1.JPG,
1M139194202EFF2821P2997M2M1.JPG,
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These five images are covering the same grooved berry couple, but belong to different MI sequences. On each sequence the only the focused on berries are late. It is interesting that image 2 and 5 on above list show these berries in a small fraction at the edge of frames and this sufficed to included in this batch.

Other images show also grooved berries in similar fashion.

I think this is more than enough to fall in conclusion to they are held for their content a very precise embargo, possibly requested by their own scientific teams.

This also shows their deep curiosities on berries, which never surfaced in PR's

Another "bearded" berry (1M139284552EFF2829P2997M2M1.JPG) is covered in this batch which is not the best focused one in the MI sequence, but including the late one, the sequence still have 4 images, where we can expect 5 as usual.

I think this behavior could be considered logical although disgusting when the real raw image embargo is considered. If the JPG image is not sufficiently detoriated and still shows worthy details deserve to not be published.

We may name this MI batch as "bad luck" as often we say: Damn it, all images of this great feature are blurred! Now we see it is not pure bad luck.

Corrected (hopefully) link for above image

1M139194202EFF2821P2997M2M1.JPG Sol 124

awe crap they did get a picture of that ancient mayan rebar!