Yes, in fact Spirit did that a lot when high motor currents first showed up on her back in the first winter.

Well I hadn't noticed the L6R1's myself. But I had noticed that we have started to get some R2's to go with the R1's again. So I can do some more colour drive direction mosaics:

1870



1871


James

There is still more to come of this, but I couldn't resist. Mmmm Rocks...



Anaglyph


(Both image link to the same blog entry)

James

That is something the Google Earth kml is good for - using the ruler I get 9.06km/5.63miles from Eagle Crater

Looks like Endeavour to me.

I agree with others here -It doesn't look that bad, we'll be out of here in no time.

Still a few missing/corrupted bit of data from the Resolution Panorama I'll wait for those before doing the full version. I'm not sure when I'll get to do that though, so in the meantime here is my current 'draft':



James

Pioneer Mound in 3D colour:



And for those without 3D glasses, a 2D version:



(Both thumbnails link to the same blog entry)

James

Space junk shouldn't start to build up as the Lissajous orbits around the L1,2 & 3 points are not perfectly stable and require significant station keeping to remain there.

The orbits are at L2 are of the order 100,000km I think, so it will be a while till there are any crowding issues.

It doesn't look that bad to me - and being downhill, it shouldn't be a problem for Spirit to cross IMO.

The PDT says no - driving again tosol (1870)

As requested.

Geert, I'm not sure that analysis shows meaningful differences in terrain. You seem to have ended up with a similar range of colours for both the terrain on top of HP and that surrounding it - something we know from ground truth to not be the case.

No, just the 2D colour: http://www.nivnac.co.uk/mer/index.php/a1366

I'll try and do a 3D version as we are heading back that way. It was only taken using one filter with the right pancam so colour 3D will be tough, but at least it is R1 (blue) so it's not impossible.

Might also be a good time to repost the full Gibson Pan:



Posted 26/02/2006 - 37 months ago. Back when Spirit was young a sprightly and able to climb HP here.

And the colour anaglyph

About 7.5km from the landing site.

http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/s...sApollo_br2.jpg

Add maybe 1km to that from our current position.

http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/s...pApollo_br2.jpg

A little far for a 5 wheeled rover I'd say.

The raws for the first Resolution pan (another much larger and closer pan is currently being taken ) are all down. Here is my version:



James

Nice.

I think I'm right in thinking that the two large dark rocks on the 'corner' of HP from this viewpoint are those at 'Gibson' where Spirit first arrived on sol 746/8.

EDIT: here is an old mosaic of mine from back then, showing the rocks I'm talking about.

That's what I'm trying to tell myself as well Stu.

I'm sure whatever is chosen will seem right in few years. But right now I'm struggling to decide which is the least worst.

Yes your right - I was confused and in a hurry. Need more sleep...

Thanks for the complement and correction.

James

EDIT: Am I right in thinking that it is in fact, Grissom Hill?

Beautiful view towards the west on sol 1852.



James

It's not up yet. But remember that .pdf versions of the Planetary Report are put up in the members section of the society website.

Got my copy in the post yesterday - great to see UMSF in print.

I think your right - but frankly I'd be astonished if we didn't end up on the west rim. If we're going to the twin peaks we are REALLY going the long way around. And if we are going to the FAR rim then surely we'll swing by the near rim first!

Must be one of the three, as SS says we can now see where we are going:




Thanks for that. I didn't remember seeing it before (although that feature does look familiar now you post it)

Can't wait to see more and watching them get bigger and bigger.

I think the decision to give up ploughing around here and head around the west side of HP deserves a new thread. Lets get moving!

I've split off the last few posts to The West Valley Route

Well Stu, I would argue that as we left Victoria we could see Endeavour and were heading towards it.

I think the big difference now is that we can see the west rim - the actual bit we are heading for. Back at Victoria, we could only see the north and south-east sections that are a LONG way from where we are actually going.

Here is my estimate of what we are seeing in the Sol 1820 drive direction pancam Fred highlighted.

Pancam is a stack of the left and right frames. Background is and 'inverse-polar' projected HRSC image for our current location.



James