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Originally Posted by Superluminal
An interesting feature, but it looks as if they are moving away from it. What I've been waiting to get a close look at is the dark streaks coming out of a couple of bays at the top of the route map Nunu linked to. Probably just dark sand funneled by the wind through the bays, but still, I'd like to take a look at it.
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I'd like to take a closer look at those too. Squyres suggested it might take 3 to 9 months to circumnavigate the crater. Then given the distance around the crater of the large streaks from Opportunity, it might take a month to get to those.
A particular flow of the dark material down the slope of Victoria might also be interesting to look at. It's much closer. It appears just below the label "Duck Bay" in this labeled image:
http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/...not.browse.jpg
It actually looks like two flows that merged. But both seem to have very localized originating points. Then it might indicate some material that originated subsurface.
Bob Clark