Geoart Pin #10 New South Wales, Australia
By geono. on 27-Feb-21. Waypoint GA20687

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	GeoArt
Container:	Small
Coordinates:	S30° 33.671' E151° 33.847' (WGS 84)
	56J 362291E 6618150N (UTM)
GeoArt Coordinates:	S30° 37.494' E151° 34.128' (WGS 84)
	31N 166021E 0N (UTM)
Elevation:	1032 m
Local Government Area:	Uralla

Map

GeoArt Co-ordinates Map

Whodunit State

Description

With the Perseverance rover's successul landing on Mars on 18th February 2021, this geoart is themed to celebrate space exploration.

The geoart navigating pin points to the Uralla Satellite Tracking Station. Relocated from Guam, this is a critical component of a global network of earth station facilities used to control satellites through launch and transfer orbit to the satellites intended locations.

The Uralla facility is also essential in providing communications during a satellite's initial in-orbit testing.

The Perseverance Rover's parachute on its descent to Mars (with code)

Unfortunately it's impossible to locate the geoart any closer to the Tracking Station as the closer you get the less you see.

Congratulations LuckyL10n & Sol de lune - FTF

Hints

Tbrf jvgu gur fcbba naq xavsr

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

27-Jul-23

SpikeyMikey

Cache found whilst on a slow trip from Home to see my sons and granddaughter on NSW Central Coast.
Cache found without difficulty, in the expected area.
Cache in good condition.
TNLNSL TFTC

20-Apr-22

Shifter Brains

Last day in Armidale so we decided to do the geoart series (never nod a geoart cache before today) as we ran out of daylight when in the area yesterday. An easy quick find for Mrs Shifter. Thanks geono.

Rated: for Overall Experience

04-Jul-21

TheClanMcHack

things to do on A Sunday afternoon...

05-May-21

C○3 ♀ Ɛ○<<○3

I wasn't intending on travelling this way this week but here I am. this geoart trail was the only reason I ended up down here. haha.

I have just downy the last couple of days wandering through waterfall country. so amazing! here the water was still falling but not down gorges like Wollomombi.

Thanks for this geoart trail. unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, my food has just arrived so I'm going to copy and paste my found logs which include a couple of FTFs I believe.

thanks. Smile

05-Apr-21

LuckyL10n

#GA5193 - 12:31; Day 11 of a road trip with Sol de lune for the CacheQLD - Dayboro Mega and we are now headed for home. After spending the night in Glen Innes, we headed south caching our way through Ben Lomond, Guyra and Armidale. After leaving Armidale, we headed for Uralla keen to collect this new series along a couple of the side roads. Great to collect this one and a bonus *FTF* as well at our first stop. TFTC geono. Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

05-Apr-21

Sol de lune

Heading home from the mega with LuckyL10n and our plan was always to grab this series the way through. Arrived in the area around lunchtime and set along the road. This was our first stop and once at GZ the cache was quickly found and the log signed. Nothing like a good GCA series to keep us going.

Thanks for the this first one geono....even though we are going about them backwards. Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

28-Feb-21

geono.

Published for the Feb 2021 Geoart Competition.