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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Opportunity _ 141m Drive !

Posted by: Sunspot Apr 18 2004, 12:39 PM

Three days after switching to new software with mobility-enhancing features, NASA's Opportunity shattered the record for a single day's driving on Mars. The rover covered 140.9 maters (462 feet) during its 82nd sol on Mars, ending at 2:15 p.m. PDT, Saturday, May 17.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/daily/4-17-04.cfm

Posted by: David Apr 18 2004, 01:12 PM

We seem to be getting a pretty good idea of what Endurance crater looks like now. But can anybody tell me how tall the crater wall is? It looks like a huge cliff, but in the past all the surface features have turned out to be much smaller than I'd expect.

Posted by: Sunspot Apr 18 2004, 01:31 PM

The far wall of Endurance looks very steep, unfortunately most of the recent pancam shots of it were taken with it in shadow.

Posted by: djellison Apr 18 2004, 04:20 PM

Well - using the genius http://copperas.com/merpx/ - on the Sol 81 images ( before the uber-drive I think )

oops - it doesnt like it - possibly it's too far away

anyhoo - the crater is what, 185 metres across north-to-south, and takes up around 1000 pixels of pancam width - yet is about 33 pixels high from the highest point to the lowest point we can see - so that would give us about 6 - 7 metres of height. But - there is probably about as much that we cant see - lets say about 12 metres of depth in total to the edge of the crater - but only 6 or 7 as that 'cliff' we can see on the far side.

Doug