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Post Solar Conjunction/Santorini Study Drive, The second leg in our Journey to Endeavor Crater
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post Mar 29 2009, 01:50 PM
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Hoped so rolleyes.gif

Just got uncomfortable with that sticky wheel and all.


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post Mar 29 2009, 03:28 PM
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Yes, maybe some smileys would have been appropriate. It was a joke hinting at all this time sitting still and the 1820 drive.
So, here are the smileys: smile.gif smile.gif smile.gif smile.gif smile.gif

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post Apr 1 2009, 11:53 PM
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From the latest Planetary Society update, some more details about the sol 1820 drive:
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Turns out actually, the error emanated from those multi-sol feasibility studies. It was an inadvertent goof, a human error. “We forgot we had set the rover to only allow straightforward arcs, so she drove forward," Laubach explained. "While we were intending to drive backward to Resolution Crater, Opportunity ended up driving straightforward instead, because, actually, that was the only way that we allowed her to drive."
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post Apr 2 2009, 04:18 AM
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Lots of big berries and apparent dessication cracking in the bedrock. During the traverse has Opportunity lost elevation to around Eagle / Endurance crater levels?
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post Apr 2 2009, 08:24 AM
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I'd say the RF lubricant may be ok by now wheel.gif wheel.gif wheel.gif wink.gif


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post Apr 2 2009, 12:26 PM
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Hey, hey! It's OK to be a back seat driver but not an armchair mechanic. biggrin.gif
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post Apr 3 2009, 09:40 AM
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QUOTE (climber @ Apr 2 2009, 09:24 AM) *
I'd say the RF lubricant may be ok by now wheel.gif wheel.gif wheel.gif wink.gif


Not so fast ! It's been only three weeks of rest by now ...

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post Apr 3 2009, 09:41 AM
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I've just checked the pancam web to look for any indication of leaving this area during the weekend.
None for the time being, but it looks like the big 360º "Resolution Pan" has already finished so we might be leaving soon. Perhaps it will be time to move to a new thread...
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post Apr 3 2009, 11:15 AM
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QUOTE (Nirgal @ Apr 3 2009, 10:40 AM) *
Not so fast ! It's been only three weeks of rest by now ...


Which gives a mossbauer intergration, if it were deployed for all three weeks (which it hasn't been) about 1/2 as strong as one done in 8 hours on Sol 1.

The old girl has to take her time, unfortunately.
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QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 3 2009, 01:15 PM) *
The old girl has to take her time ....


Yes and that's ok for the aged lady smile.gif After all it's like a miracle that she is still functional at all after all those years !

Question to the Rover Experts/Driver: Now that she has to take more time with the driving tasks too (i.e. with the worn RF wheel 50 m/sol plus resting sols as opposed to 100 m/sol) are there plans to do the more time consuming tasks like weeks-long Moessbauer integrations somewhat less often, i.e. only every other routine sampling stop or so ... in exchange for more driving Sols ?
(At least that's how I interpreted the "Endeavour-Strategy" as communicated at the beginning of the year when we left Victoria and made some very impressive progress during the first couple of weeks)
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post Apr 6 2009, 04:26 PM
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Oh my god. One of Opportunity's solar panels fell off and is in the dirt.

See pancam! ohmy.gif

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post Apr 6 2009, 05:25 PM
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QUOTE (Floyd @ Apr 6 2009, 06:26 PM) *
Oh my god. One of Opportunity's solar panels fell off


looks remarkably dust free at least wink.gif
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post Apr 7 2009, 12:42 AM
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Seriously, I can't quite figure out the perspective and shadowing. That one unshadowed ground region that looks like it touches the solar panel, and the shadow that makes the rest of the solar panel look like the panel is about a half inch off the ground--really wild.



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