<Sigh> This story still seems to be popping up on news sites all over the place even though it's clearly rubbish. At least a corrected story is out there:

Schoolboy's asteroid-strike sums are wrong

I guess 'Kid proved NASA wrong' is a better headline than 'Kid gets sums wrong', why let the truth get in the way.

Looks like news regarding the death of Ulysses may have been a little premature.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0804/15ulysses/

The BBC have an article of this as well

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7341211.stm

If you compare the latest rhaz with some from a few sols ago you can see that the right rear has 'moved up' significantly. So it does look like the middle right has started to dig in. Conversely though, it looks like the opposite is happening on the left side which may be a good sign (slightly nervous )

James

I'm not so sure that it is part of the 'usual' El Dorado monitoring. That doesn't usually require super-res does it?

It does however look awfully like El Dorado was the target of the sequence. I really have no idea what, if anything, has been named after ACC at Gusev.

Sorry to here that Rui,

James

It looks like the 3rd row of the 1487 pan, that is not down yet, is of the sky. So this is a quick go at essentially the finished 6x2 image.



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James

This is just the start of the sol 1487 pan but as it shows the region we're all interested in I thought I'd process what is down so far.



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James

Looking at the docking animation on the ATV blog it looks like today's docking will require a time travel manoeuvre into the future (post S6)

Hmm, I wonder if this is just a random check or if they have noticed anything indicating that Spirit may have shifted a bit...



James

I'm probably going to take the Monday off, I wouldn't get any work done even if I did go in.

Yup, guilty.

Would many of us be here at UMSF without him? Thank you Arthur C. Clarke.

May you rest amongst the stars you allowed us to dream about.

James

I really like seeing these interesting bits from the images. I am considering restarting my HiPOD idea/this thread idea, but on a separate site to remove the need for adding too much to the UMSF backup. I would welcome anyone who wanted to help out with this, finding out the good stuff and maybe providing some comments on them.

James

Of course the UMSF thread on this was started some 17 hours before that article was published.

IIRC Ariane 5 was initially was developed as a man-rated launch system to carry Hermes. So if you we ever going to man rate an existing rocket, Ariane 5 is probably easier than most.

No. They are just going to vibrate the mirror used to point the Mini-TES to try and shake off some dust. I don't know the mass of this mirror, but I think it's fair to say it's negligible compared to the rest of the rover. Hence there will be essentially no vibration of Spirit as a whole.

James

Unlimited broadband in my new flat: ETA 1 week.

Hopefully I'll have a bit more spare time by then and can start going over some of the great data out there again.

Great finds Stu.

The FARK link point to the thread, not directly to the image.

I think the reason for the skull is the monster poking it's head out of the bank just to the left...

Hey this is fun, has anyone noticed the nice model of Concorde on the far right just above Oppy's solar panel.

Nice work finding these 'artifacts' Eric. - I never thought I'd say that on this forum!

Another nice new image taken near the terminator on the approch is in the 'pics' folder. It doesn't seem to be on the main MESSENGER page yet.

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/scienc...0108821375M.png

This whole episode reminded me that I hadn't finished doing the West Valley pan - not much need as there is an official one now, but it was nearly done anyway.

Here it is, including our little friend, along with lots of other funny shaped rocks.



James

To the EAST of the hills you mean? Looks like a nice DD caught in action to me, nice.

I wondered how long it would be before someone mentioned that.

I guess it's one of the famous "Wrinkle Ridges" heading over the terminator

Another one trickles out...

Looking Toward the South Pole of Mercury