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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Opportunity _ Making Tracks...again

Posted by: Sunspot Mar 20 2004, 11:22 PM

View from the rear hazard cam on Opportunity........will the rover ever leave this crater ?

Posted by: Sunspot Mar 22 2004, 09:23 AM

OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Try Again to Exit Crater - sol 56, Mar 21, 2004

NASA's Opportunity tried driving uphill out of its landing-site crater during its 56th sol, ending at 10:05 p.m. March 21, PST, but slippage prevented success. The rover is healthy, and it later completed a turn to the right and a short drive along the crater's inner slope. Controllers plan to send it on a different route for exiting the crater on sol 57.

Earlier on sol 56, Opportunity successfully examined a patch of soil dubbed "Brian's Choice" with its Moessbauer spectrometer, alpha particle X-ray spectrometer and microscopic imager. Following the drive, it made observations with its navigation camera and miniature thermal emission spectrometer. Wake-up music for the sol was "Fly Like an Eagle," by the Steve Miller Band.

They haven't provided any update for Spirit since Sol 74