For the first time, ever, timescales have been put on a Map at UMSF without epic epic ustrax

Would this not be a more appropriate starting point?
http://marsairplane.larc.nasa.gov/multimedia.html#animations

This topic has been discussed - to the tune of seveal tens of thousands of words contribution from Don - here - http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...0&start=320

My words in the last post of that thread stand. Please read them.

One thing is for sure - it's not a 'real' object out in space. Nothing could remain stationary like that.

Each wavelength is actually a different telescope, with different optics and a different CCD. What the explanation is, I don't know.

This will probably be the second time that Spirit has more power than the day she landed.Time to reopen the Gusev Crater Observatory and burn the midnight Whrs

18 tonnes of KSC-1 mars simulant, and the mobility test bed rover.

Seems like it's just going to be a wrap up of the primary mission by Rich Zurek.

OK.

This is my pre-emptive 'don't bitch and moan' warning.

It is what it is. Few people liked Spirit and Opportunity to begin with.

At least it now has a name - time to change the sub-forum title

I can not wait for that dataset to be released - we animators have been waiting a LONG time for a good moon bump map

You've have noticed a Doppler shift on an AM sequence beep if Spirit had been surfing

If it's earth-rocking, I'll text you

If this is more gully-science, a little bit of me will probably die.

I'm wondering if it's old landers, or something interesting from CRISM.

It's one minute, not one degree - and on Mars, it's JUST under 1km.

They don't really look like the ones we've seen before.

As a piece of advice, your best bet, if you can't figure something out - is to google for it with the tag 'invision board' or something like that.

I think they had only a few colours - so they bracketed wide ranges of values with the same colour. You can see the pencil lines where they drew the areas that they then coloured in...... i think.

No - they just left it behind.

We've already had an extended mission - we're in it right now.

Onwards....
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=6022

Quality and detail?




ONWARDS!

That ground scraping issue was why I had a go with my cruddy low-fidelity emulation (in here http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...mp;#entry140354 ) of imaging the middle and rear wheels from the 'outside' rather than looking in. That under-belly shot is still going to be usefull and required though - to get that ground clearance data.

WOW - that's better than I was expecting!!!

They're in a Jiffy bag in the shed - I've been very naughty and not done anything with them - I'll try and take them to work tomorrow (I've moved offices and need an excuse to reinstall the scanner drivers)

D

"How do you get a rover out of a sand trap"

Nothing

Useless.

The rocking technique ( I've used it as well ) involves free-wheeling back to the bottom of the little trench you dig, then throttling back up. MER can't free wheel. Essentially, it would just be driving backwards and forwards in little steps. To me- that sounds like an excellent means of digging the wheels in further, without making any progress.