A round of applause went up for the rover drivers. |
going to be spectacular. |
If it's a nice little fire fountain, I'd probably run toward it and take pictures. If it's more violent, you'll probably know about it beforehand because there will be lots of earthquakes. |
If you look at the statistics, just the number of eruptions, there's an eruption every 3,000 to 5,000 years. Since the last one was 3,000 years ago, well ... |
Is Home Plate cool or what? |
It currently is in a stage where the eruptions wouldn't be as catastrophic as the eruptions that created it. |
It wouldn't take a lot. |
The view is really opening up, |
Then we may move to the south side of the summit to get a full resolution image of the basin to the south. We hope to study the peculiar feature, Home Plate, in the future, as well as get some good images of the possible pathway down the hill to the basin. |
We are within sight of the summit. |
We can see 'Home Plate' now as well. The view is really opening up, |