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exploring new places
Our helicopter traverse on Sunday is chronicled over here as a local story on a CBS affiliate.
And as the first person to visit those particular areas.... I have naming rights. :) After consultation here, I've proposed that the broad orange-red plain be called Korolev Planitia (we use some Mars conventions in the namespaces) in honor of the father of Russian rocketry. JJ thought this was okay, as well. And that the small canyon be named for my father. :)
Here's the orange-red colored broad plain, roughly 5 miles x 5 miles:
I'm taking a gravity datapoint:
And here's one side of Jack Glass Canyon, from above:
And as the first person to visit those particular areas.... I have naming rights. :) After consultation here, I've proposed that the broad orange-red plain be called Korolev Planitia (we use some Mars conventions in the namespaces) in honor of the father of Russian rocketry. JJ thought this was okay, as well. And that the small canyon be named for my father. :)
Here's the orange-red colored broad plain, roughly 5 miles x 5 miles:
I'm taking a gravity datapoint:
And here's one side of Jack Glass Canyon, from above: