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Day 1: Phoenix and beyond.
Cacti!
After we arrived in Phoenix Arizona, we drove up north and arrived at the
Colorado Plateau. This is a picture of some rises at the start of the plateau.
This is a rather large faulted region in the Colorado Plateau. Here the
elevation drops 1000 ft before quickly coming back up. By the way, we're about
5000 ft above sea level.
So what's the first site? See the rim on the horizon? Not the dark one, but the
kinda flat one in front of it. Oh well, take a closer look:
That's right! It's Meteor Crater! Otherwise known as Barringer's Crater. About
4000 ft across and 500 ft deep. Its big. Too big to fit in this picture.
Here's another view.
Here's the west edge.
There's John '05, Professor Phinney, and Linc, standing on the viewing platform.
Kaibab limestone on the edge, doesn't it look like the rock at the Opportunity
mars rover site?
 Long perspective.
 East side.
 More crater.
 Closeup of the center. On the lower
right side of the chain link fence is a silhouette of an astronaut with the
American flag.
There's Ana '04, on the platform.
And yours truly.
Here's me in the center of the crater... or a mockup backdrop in the museum.
Here's a view outside.
And a better view, of the Colorado plateau. Right now we're about 6000 ft above
sea level. Flat isn't it?
That's Conrad, first Princetonian on the moon.
The San Francisco peaks, a 9000 ft volcano that produced massive amounts of
basalt that cover portions of the plateau.
Ya.
I wouldn't mind having a ranch out here.
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