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Landing site (roughly)

During the press conf, they showed a match between a descent image and detail from a THEMIS mosaic of the ellipse, but they did not show a context image of where that location actually is.

I found the little crater pattern in the full THEMIS mosaic, and marked the general location myself on the image and on the MOLA topo map with ellipse. The area is marked with a green and purple square with white lines pointing at it (excuse the lousy artwork but I'm travelling and don't have any imaging software on my laptop except MS Paint).

Closeup on ellipse:

http://web.mit.edu/~dburbach/www/gusev_close.jpg


Ellipse context:

http://web.mit.edu/~dburbach/www/gusev2.jpg


THEMIS mosaic (landing area in green):

http://web.mit.edu/~dburbach/www/gusev_themis1.jpg


THEMIS closeup:

http://web.mit.edu/~dburbach/www/gusev_themis2.jpg


It looks like there is an MOC high-res image that captures those ridges/knobs to the SSE of the landing
area:

http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/mer2003/mocs/Images/E03-00012/E03-00012.jpg

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