With apologies to everyone...

Sofi Crater over there...

We're heading into the weekend and here're bits of the imaging plan and how I "read" it:

01682::p0617::08::14::0::0::14::0::28::navcam_7x1_az_18_0.5_bpp
01682::p0713::03::6::0::0::6::0::12::navcam_3x1_az_198_3_bpp
01682::p1211::03::2::0::0::2::0::4::ultimate_front_haz_1_bpp_pri_15
01682::p1311::07::2::0::0::2::0::4::rear_haz_ultimate_1_bpp_crit15
01682::p2365::19::12::0::0::12::2::26::pancam_Cape_Victory_3x1_L257R2
01682::p2366::19::12::0::0::12::2::26::pancam_iceland_L257R1
01682::p2367::19::8::0::0::8::2::18::pancam_drive_dir_4x1_L7R1
01682::p2580::21::19::0::0::19::4::42::pancam_superres_Cape_Victory1_L26R12
01682::p2581::21::19::0::0::19::4::42::pancam_superres_Cape_Victory2_L26R12
01683::p2368::19::4::0::0::4::1::9::pancam_LBS_Cape_Victory_pt2_L2

Sol 1682 (today): Color mosaic of Cape Victory, followed by driving a bit towards the tip of the current cape (BTW, does it have a name?) and taking the usual post-drive nav/pancam mosaics.
Sol 1683 (saturday): Superres and second LBS mosaic of Cape Victory.
Sol 1684 (sunday): Leave the area.

Tesheiner, what might be the "iceland" referred in your post?

Dunno until the images are downlinked. Just wait a few hours.

A lot of pictures came down today.

Yep, just trawling through them now... lots of great 3D possibilities...

Almost Out

Most of the huge new batch are duplicates of old images. Perhaps they've reposted several sol's worth to be sure they've cleared the backlog?

For example, we had Stu's egress shot already: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...MJP1937R0M1.JPG

Today's exploratorium version is not a retransmitted update - the version number is still M1 and the files are identical bit by bit.

But I do love that view, Stu, and especially the clouds in the sky!

... and today's driving distance was, well, zero.

The imaging plan only goes up to 1683. How do you know they are leaving on 1684?

Right. What about stop "C" mentioned in Doug's post 183?

(Or maybe by 'leave the area', Tesheiner just means 'leave for stop C', not 'leave Victoria Crater'.)

I don't; it was a guess.
But it was based on similar situations on the past. Today was planned for driving (why it was not executed is another aspect) and the "post-drive" images would be available right in time for the people at JPL to plan another drive the day after, that means tomorrow (note that we're not in restricted sols). Given that tomorrow plan was already established and includes important pancam imaging (LBS) my assumption was that the next move would be on sunday and might be being planned right now.

> Or maybe by 'leave the area', Tesheiner just means 'leave for stop C', not 'leave Victoria Crater'

... or just "leave the place we are right now", it was not intended to mean "leave for stop C" or "leave VC" although I would prefer the latter.

After yesterday's (1682) cancelled/aborted drive, the imaging plan for sol 1683 has been changed. Now it includes another driving attempt and LBS imaging.

Aborted because the sun seek failed because of a buffer timing issue. Look for a short (5m or so) bump on sol 1683 for a new LBS imaging attempt immediately followed by a long, L-O-N-G drive. And as for direction, think SSW for a while to come.

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