http://marswatch.astro.cornell.edu/merweb/merweb.pl

Using that - you can see that Spirit is FINE - and has been imaging a LOT

Sol Expected EDRs Actual EDRs %EDRs Down # EDRs Marked Bad # DPs Created # DPs Marked As Sent # DPs Received (Partial or Full) # Full DPs Received Total DataVol Received (Mb) Total DataVol NOT Received (Mb) Total DP Data ALL
534 238 232 97.48 1 232 232 232 232 194.74 0.00 194.74
535 109 103 94.50 0 103 103 103 103 22.14 0.00 22.14
536 125 140 112.00 0 147 141 140 140 55.78 4.48 60.26
537 469 444 94.67 3 469 427 444 425 187.78 24.99 212.78
538 250 220 88.00 0 251 220 220 220 50.19 31.36 81.55
539 346 240 69.36 0 318 245 242 232 100.08 63.00 163.08
540 366 152 41.53 0 320 0 152 151 9.75 128.10 137.85

444 images in a single sol must be a pancam record - perhaps a lot of EDN images - I dont know - we'll find out soon enough - expect a "1978 images added" on JPL at some point

Same with oppy
514 225 99 44.00 0 185 99 99 99 1.69 36.91 38.59
515 57 57 100.00 0 57 57 57 57 36.79 0.00 36.79
516 76 66 86.84 3 70 66 66 66 37.10 3.20 40.29
517 32 22 68.75 0 26 22 22 22 0.91 3.19 4.10
518 144 159 110.42 0 174 159 159 159 4.23 6.93 11.15
519 132 104 78.79 0 162 104 104 104 1.39 1.80 3.19
520 33 42 127.27 0 42 0 42 42 0.58 0.00 0.58
521 6 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00


So whilst we're not getting any news from 'home' (sometimes I almost swop my reality so 'home' is where the rovers are ) we can see that there is activity going on, and data coming home.

Someone more up to speed on site-numbers and drive-numbers could actually see if any driving has gone on as well

Doug

Only 2162 images away from the 100,000 mark according to the current counters

Thanks doug !

for now that's all I want to know: that the Rovers are operational and there is no serious problem with the mars-earth communication link.

Sure, Steve will give us the next update soon

Summary of last few days (Spirit)
short drive on sol 536, rear hazcam image taken that sol, still at independence
more microimages, rock portraits, etc
5 color (L256R27) 3x27 panorama from sol 537-541

That sounds like an independance day panorama to me - a full 360+overlap

Doug

yum yum
A big one...

Thanks Doug, great link for times when the images are not coming through.

In case you haven't noticed, if you click on 'Table of All Images For All Sols' and then by clicking on the links in the 'Seq.Ver.Iter' colum you get a page with the very small 'stamp' images that come down from the rovers. It's good to be able to keep getting my daily 'fix' of mars images, even if it's in small doses!

James

Wow, I got a picture from sol 541

Thanks for finding!

On sol 540 there are 60 Pancam pics from the Independence pan and even some are sharp! http://marswatch.astro.cornell.edu/merweb/...s540p229703%201

Yes it looks like when the real image comes down they replace the stamp image on with a 200 x 200 pixel scaled image which is MUCH better

I worry about in few sols we'll gaze at such a cloudy small pic and have to say: There below it must be Ultreya...

But until then we get our "silversid(t)e" back, I'm sure!

3 things about "Ultreya"

First, the name will never be used outside "crank" circles.

Second. As MGS images that don't saturate it black in the raw data or the press release versions clearly and unambiguously show, there's no deep pit or hole or cavern there.

Third. Comparison with dark dominantly basaltic sand accumulations in places like Bonneville crater and other sheltered sand deposits in other craters, especially northeast of the hills in a heavily dust-devil stripped region shows that there is utterly and totally nothing remarkable or unusual about the albedo, morphology, or location (in sheltered south-east lee-sides of topographic features) of this feature.

I'm far more interested in things like "Home Plate" and wait for views of this possibly lakebed sedimentary or even evaporite sedimentary deposit with bated breath.

Well - in the same way that I called Erebus ' Albert ' for months - in the absence of a name coming out of the MER team - there's nothing wrong with calling it Ultreya.

I agree with your conclusions on what it might be though. I'm not expecting anything amazing - but there is a cool factor in just seing what's around the corner.

Doug

Tman - could you explain the syntax to put in that display_jpeg box?

Doug

It's a fairly large feature and we're going to have a good view of it if we come done from the hilltop on the east side, which I hope... There seem to be more well developed outcrop layers on the east and southeast side of Husband Hill, though that's enhanced by the shading of illumination from the left side. I don't know if they can get down off the hill on the east.. there's an east-west ridge extending from Husband hill to the complex of hills to it's east. A notch between this ridge and Husband hill itself might be a place they could get down, but it's not clear with MOC resolution.

The views to the north and south from this location would be spectacular and a real aid to understanding the geology than a descent on the west would provide. Ther'd get a view across the large craterlike bowl to the north to the mini-"ultreya" patch in the lee of the hill to the north. They'd also get an outstanding view of the hummocks and outcrops and albedo patterns inthe bigger craterlike bowl to the south of Husband hill and the east trending ridge. Probably the best panoramas of the entire mission, if they could do that.

Doug, no, but the syntax in this box is almost the same (as in the list) and will automatically generates when you click on the link in the list generated by clicking on "'Table of All Images For All Sols".

Ed, I understand you when you're sceptic about it
I'm not expecting anything amazing too, unless the great outlook and as you write about, more outcrops. Maybe we get a few answers about the origin of this round shape that appears in Husband Hill.

Ahh - I see - it works as well - fab way to keep up to speed on progress etc when there's no expl/jpl updates.

Doug