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Feb 21 2005, 09:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
It seems Oppy has moved again although it's hard to put any numbers on how far we have travelled. I don't see any features in the latest navcam, forward and rear hazcam images.
Forward Hazcam 2-21 Navcam 2-21 Rear Hazcam 2-21 |
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Feb 21 2005, 09:57 PM
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The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
Oppy is currently doing some major driving, possibly exceeding previous records, over a 3-sol period (driving on all sols). Considering that the previous driving record is something like 156 meters or so per sol (someone please correct me), that should put us around 450 meters south of Jason crater by Wednesday.
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Feb 21 2005, 10:20 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107 |
Now that is some serious driving! I like it
But are they planning to drive both forward and backward on these long traverses? To put an even load onto the drive mechanism. -------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
- Steven Squyres |
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Feb 21 2005, 10:26 PM
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The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
QUOTE (dot.dk @ Feb 21 2005, 03:20 PM) But are they planning to drive both forward and backward on these long traverses? To put an even load onto the drive mechanism. Yes, it's a standard procedure now to do that, for both Spirit and Opportunity. I don't know the distance though at which point they switch, or what other criteria is used to determine the "ok stop, let's do 180 and drive the other way now"... |
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Feb 21 2005, 10:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
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Feb 21 2005, 11:38 PM
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Has anyone found any MOLA data for this area of Merdiani? If the plains do slope downwards at the point indicated in Alan's image that might offer an explanantion why Vostok and perhaps even Victoria Crater have been so hard to identify - it is quite strange that there is no obvious sign of Victoria Crater... Endurance Crater is still visible even in the rear hazcam images.
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Feb 21 2005, 11:56 PM
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The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
I seriously doubt there is any slope there, or it would've been visible on the horizon by now. The immediate area of Meridiani plain appears to be quite flat. I think it's just a darker windblown material deposited there...
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Feb 22 2005, 01:36 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 27-December 04 Member No.: 131 |
I am still wondering what the dark feature NE from Vostok is.
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Feb 22 2005, 02:27 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3009 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
QUOTE I am still wondering what the dark feature NE from Vostok is. I wonder, too. It seems to resemble the heatshield disturbance. --Bill -------------------- |
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Feb 23 2005, 12:10 AM
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Dunes ......... looking back towards Endurance
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...03P0617R0M1.JPG |
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Feb 23 2005, 12:16 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
Oppy moves on during sol 385, after sol 384 during which nothing happened as far as I can see (there might still be a problem with back-to-back drives):
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...03P0617R0M1.JPG No features to see, but the dunes look different further on: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...03P2380R1M1.JPG Maybe the larger dunes are causing the slightly darker region in the route map. -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Feb 23 2005, 12:25 AM
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Rear Hazcam for the end of each sol
Sol 383: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P1315R0M1.JPG Sol 384: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P1315R0M1.JPG Sol 385 http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P1315R0M1.JPG The PanCam images of the dunes on sol 385 were taken late in the day so the shadows make them especially prominent...... |
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Feb 23 2005, 12:31 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
QUOTE (Sunspot @ Feb 23 2005, 12:25 AM) Rear Hazcam for the end of each sol Oh, you are right, there was a change of scenery between 383 and 384. Both the front and back hazcams looked so similar, that I didn't realise it :-) -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Feb 23 2005, 08:14 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 103 Joined: 12-February 05 From: Utah Member No.: 167 |
Are the drivers following the zigzag path set out in the "Road to Vostok" map or are they making a beeline due south of Endurance using the receding feature to help them keep their bearings? Just curious.
-------------------- - My signature idea machine is busted right now.
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Feb 23 2005, 01:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1276 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
QUOTE (Sunspot @ Feb 22 2005, 07:10 PM) Dunes ......... looking back towards Endurance http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...03P0617R0M1.JPG This reminds me so much of Snorkling off the coast of cuba. I was just looking down from about 30 feet deep. And those ripples look so simular to what I saw. |
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