Pics up!

Definitely some spinning of the RF! But not much movement.

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/fo...86P1214R0M1.JPG

Some tracking data for the sol 2117 drive is available now.

About 5mm forward, but about 7mm down if you believe the numbers.

Can't wait to see some images...

Not to mention how off topic it is:

Sol 056 - no
Big - no
B'n'W - no
Pan - no

I see what you mean! I think that it is an illusion, my take is that what 'emerges' is soil churned up by the RR wheel, the wheel itself is behind the bogie arm and totally buried.

New Free Spirit update

Last drive was aborted after 4m worth of wheel spinning due to a RR stall.

Sequencing diagnostics today (for nextersol, 2095)) including a possible steering test, a small backward rotation of just the right-rear wheel and a short (~1m) forward drive of all wheels.

Some data on the tracking site now. Looks like about 5mm progress forward, although worryingly, another 4mm 'down'.

Sunspot,
My impression from the line:

"As the rover began its first move, it sensed that its roll was outside the allowed limit and safely stopped the drive."

Is that the roll of the vehicle was *already* out off allowable drive limits before even starting the drive. i.e there was a mismatch between the actual roll of the vehicle and what the drivers thought it was when setting the limits. As soon as the first roll limit check was made after the drive started, this was discovered and the drive stopped.

Yes, I guess OSX is counting the .DS_Store (or whatever it's called) files, which adds the extra 20,000 (1 per directory) that I have over Emily.

Weird, I have the same 32.3GB but have a whopping 399,016 items listed.

I think it is a bit of a stretch to say Spirit got 'dug in' on 1899 - the problems started on sol 1886 and she was furthest 'in' on 1891.

Emily, the last significant drive was on 1898. There was a drive with very little movement on sol 1899 which I think was the one that faulted out when the middle wheel stalled.

James

I'm pretty sure that they are from the IMU.

I really don't know what signifcance to put on these very small numbers. My gut feeling is not a lot!

Really? I originally wrote mm in the post but then calculated that the change from yestersol to tosol was only 0.21mm E/W 0.58mm N/S (I can't remember off hand the directions). Your the expert at this these days so I hope your right.



Thanks, I hadn't appricated that logic before.

Some data on the tracking site now!

Movement of a few tenths of a mm according to that data (don't read too much into this!)

edit:
Looks like the drive number has only be incremented by 'one'. I was expecting at least two as the drive was in two legs + maybe more as there were visdom navcam images sequenced.

Possible aborted drive?

A couple more mosaics from a while ago as I continue to catchup:

Nautilus Crater


Falcon Crater

Tonight's catchup - most of the R21 colour drive direction mosaics I missed while without internet (sols 2034 to 2054).

I'll just put one thumbnail in this post to save space, but follow the link and you'll see all ten.



James

I can't think of many things more terrifying than Oppy trying to topple that thing!
I seriously doubt it would be possible anyway, it doesn't look that unstable to me.

Anyway, going back a coupe of weeks, I'm still catching up. Here is Trinidad Crater:



James

My attempt at the Marquette Island mosaic:



James

I have a lot of catching up to do after a whole month without broadband after moving home.

I was waiting for the rest of the filters of the Nereus Crater pan when I moved so that is easy to do:



BTW: Is it just me or is the PDT down?

A couple of days ago he also tweeted that if they pass the review then the extraction process should start around 9th November.

Oh my! Those are just incredible!

And this is just a "first batch"? I'm glad you didn't post more at once, I don't think I could have taken falling off my chair again!

A couple more 'Drive Direction' mosaics

2017


2020


These will probably be my last for a week or two as I'm moving house tomorrow! And will be without my broadband for a while...

James

I've played around with alternative projections to accomplish something like this before, e.g. this from Low Ridge in '06. I could have a go at doing the same for my Block Island pan if you wish.

James

I few more small mosaics. Drive directions from sols 2013, 2014 & 2015 and Gjøa Crater.

All the thumbs link to the same blog entry.

2013


2014


2015


Gjøa Crater


James

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=142132



EDIT:
Oops, Thanks Tesheiner (below) for correcting the link (now fixed)
I was being lazy and just copied what was in my browser rather than clicking on the post number to get the link. As I have the the board set to display 40 posts per page it wouldn't have worked for those set to only show 10 per page.

Scott Maxwell tweeted that Oppy has just passed 11 miles. That would be 17.7km