Full Version: Cape York - Northern Havens
Maybe the 2935 superres is meant to look for gypsum veins on the shore of CY. Remember they want to look for wide ones - maybe the widest can be spotted at this distance?
Good suggestion!
Phil
Phil
Can someone restart the image pipe to the Exploratorium?
yes verrry nice "Mt. Goldsworthy" (sol 2935) you can learn a lot from a postage stamp, and the Wreck of the Hesperus too..
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Can someone restart the image pipe to the Exploratorium?
Stu reports over on his blog that the JPL server that feeds Exploratorium is dead and will not be replaced. There may be a workaround, but that source of images may be gone for good.
QUOTE (jamescanvin @ May 2 2012, 09:08 AM)
...the JPL server that feeds Exploratorium is dead and will not be replaced. There may be a workaround
These are sad news, because Exploratorium is an important image feed for all of us who are working on MER imagery (which played an important part also for TPS/UMSF's historic success).
=> Emily, Doug, please, can JPL (the MER team) give an help ?
Thanks a lot in advance for all you can do (if possible) for your TPS/UMSF members
QUOTE (jamescanvin @ May 2 2012, 01:08 AM)
Stu reports over on his blog that the JPL server that feeds Exploratorium is dead and will not be replaced. There may be a workaround, but that source of images may be gone for good.
Hmmm...maybe a Kickstarter project to buy JPL a new server? I think that would be allowable under their guidelines. Wonder if JPL would go for it? I'd put in 20$
Exploratorium's been updated! Anyone have any info on what's happening with the server?
Don't know, but today we are taking DRIVE DIRECTION Pancams.
Paolo
Paolo
Oh, those two words have never sounded sweeter! 
That's music to my ears! (BTW, welcome back Paolo)
Just added more images into the Pancam foreground color mosaic. There are two images that were not part of the foreground mosaic sequences such as the horizon shot, and one other image that was taken closer to the rover, but they overlapped quite nicely so I threw those in aswell. 
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Exploratorium update over at Stu's blog.
From the latest update:
North end - I like the sound of that!
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Opportunity will soon be backing down off her winter perch and resume driving on the near-level terrain around the north end of Cape York.
North end - I like the sound of that!
I think I was a little too hasty when I read the update earlier this evening. I totally missed the second half of that sentence. Thanks for highlighting it, fredk.
Maybe we'll get a glimpse of the thing after all.
Maybe we'll get a glimpse of the thing after all.
QUOTE (James Sorenson @ May 3 2012, 11:44 AM)
And the view from above!
Great, James. I made a version with lower distorsion (locally flat terrain) and more uniform luminosity/contrast...
Great to see updates to Exploratorium coming up again.
And you Paolo look into drive direction pancams. While usually well informed Science daily just said Opportunity were hibernating and wont drive for quite a while still. Serious, some tidbits on Stony brook Mars rover group so I add it for reference.
And you Paolo look into drive direction pancams. While usually well informed Science daily just said Opportunity were hibernating and wont drive for quite a while still. Serious, some tidbits on Stony brook Mars rover group so I add it for reference.
We sequenced the last two MI stacks today and took more drive direction Pan today. It seems possible we will be driving off on Monday.
Small steps at first since we are going to try to continue the Radio Science experiment and need to track vehicle movement using VisOdom.
Paolo
Small steps at first since we are going to try to continue the Radio Science experiment and need to track vehicle movement using VisOdom.
Paolo
That's right. To orientate people, the northen end of Cape York is towards the right edge.
the early movements might be more like centimeters, to reposition the IDD workspace... but it's nice to be anticipating a drive soon.
Phil
Phil
2947, according to the database.
And 3.5m according to Paolo on Twitter.
Yup. 3.5m forward and a turn for comm. We should be getting new pictures in 20 hours or so.
Paolo
Paolo
Yay! It's time to get my tools out of storage.
OK, any chance you can go and fix a couple of actuators for me? 
Not having the IDD Az was a pain this past winter!
Paolo
Not having the IDD Az was a pain this past winter! Paolo
So long Greely Haven! ;-)
Paolo
Paolo
Time for our rover to rove again...
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PS: ...and a HUGE Thank You to Paolo for answering some questions for my "Road to Endeavour" blog...
http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2012/...l-greeley-haven
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PS: ...and a HUGE Thank You to Paolo for answering some questions for my "Road to Endeavour" blog...
http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2012/...l-greeley-haven
So this really is goodbye to Greeley - the PS update talked about bumping and rotating to get a new IDD work plane.
I like the new plan!
And thanks, Stu, for the great interview - my favourite quote:
I like the new plan!
And thanks, Stu, for the great interview - my favourite quote:
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I have my eyes on Cape Tribulation
Yay! Couple quick ones (as always, approximate):
Next stop: dust patch to our north:
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"Our next goal is a few meters farther north on Cape York, at a bright-looking patch of what may be dust," said... Golombek... "We haven't been able to see much dust in Meridiani. This could be a chance to learn more about it."
"We haven't been able to see much dust in Meridiani."
Is he having a laugh??????
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Is he having a laugh??????
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It's all on the rover, none on the ground.
Phil
Phil
QUOTE (Stu @ May 10 2012, 10:49 AM)
Last look at "Amboy"...?
It seems likely.(..?) Here's an anaglyph.
First the roll-off, then the "bump and turn"... now Oppy is really roving again... downhill, towards those dust dunes...
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6 more meters today! Not sure what will happen today. Will post later.
Paolo
Not sure what will happen today. Will post later.Paolo
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