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Post Cook Islands Bedrock and Soil Science Studies, The 3rd leg in our Journey to Endeavour Crater
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post Apr 22 2009, 04:08 PM
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Thisol (1864) the drive was greater then 130m.
Lovely pace. smile.gif
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post Apr 22 2009, 04:50 PM
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post Apr 22 2009, 05:01 PM
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Some very interesting rocks and stones around Oppy at the moment...

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post Apr 22 2009, 05:07 PM
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I was trying to correlate the latest ground images with HiRISE earlier today and was completely baffled. It never occurred to me to search so far away!

These machines and the people who operate them never cease to amaze me. Their resiliency and adaptability are nothing short of astounding.
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post Apr 22 2009, 07:59 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Apr 22 2009, 06:01 PM) *
Some very interesting rocks and stones around Oppy at the moment...

For the record, your first image shows Adventure crater back on sol 1852, and the second shows the ground (Cook Islands) at our long stopover next to Resolution crater, way back on sol 1831.
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post Apr 22 2009, 08:04 PM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Apr 22 2009, 03:59 PM) *
For the record, your first image shows Adventure crater back on sol 1852...

Yeah. That's a quarter of a kilometer back!

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post Apr 22 2009, 08:12 PM
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Okay... recently...

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post Apr 22 2009, 08:58 PM
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I'm still amazed by these looong drives. Some tidbits from today's one (as I see it): it started around noon and some 50m were covered in 50 minutes in "blind mode", with slip-check from time to time. After that, it was commanded in "autonav mode" (field D*) for almost three hours (!), covering the remaining 80+ meters in that autonomous mode.

"Hats off" to the rover drivers.
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post Apr 22 2009, 09:26 PM
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What do you mean? Either it's "autonomous mode" or "hats off to the rover drivers" tongue.gif


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post Apr 22 2009, 11:01 PM
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QUOTE (climber @ Apr 22 2009, 02:26 PM) *
What do you mean? Either it's "autonomous mode" or "hats off to the rover drivers" tongue.gif


Believe me, even when you let autonav kick in some homework needs to be done. And sometimes (most of the time) it is even more frightening. Sort of like letting your teenager son drive your car for the first time. ;-)

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post Apr 23 2009, 12:27 AM
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QUOTE (RoverDriver @ Apr 23 2009, 06:01 AM) *
Sort of like letting your teenager son drive your car for the first time. ;-)


Somehow I think I'd rather have my teenage daughter drive my car on Mars then on the roads here in Thailand smile.gif

But my compliments with this great drive and fast pace! I was starting to lose a bit of hope after those RF wheel delays, but this is very good. Once she is past Porcupine the terrain should start to improve quickly and you can release the brake and just let her roll downslope the rest of the way smile.gif
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post Apr 23 2009, 02:58 PM
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Time for a new thread: Stuck near Porcupine huh.gif
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post Apr 25 2009, 04:46 PM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Apr 21 2009, 02:48 PM) *
...we've covered almost half of Porcupine's diameter. Not really crossing but just bordering the crater (or its remains 'cause I can't really see it on the navcams).

I was looking for it too. It's vaguely visible in the sol 1860 and 1863 navcams as a dark, smoothish area. Here's a 3:1 vertical stretch mosaic. Porcupine occupies the top third and mostly the right two frames. Please don't laugh too hard at the workmanship - I don't do mosaics!
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post Apr 26 2009, 08:36 AM
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it is interesting, did Oppy take a photo while she was going across this bedrock? rolleyes.gif
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post Apr 26 2009, 11:27 AM
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That was during sol 1864 and I can see no "mid-drive" imaging sequence planned on purpose for that sol.
BUT, there may be a few navcam pictures taken by the autonav software on that portion of the drive. They may eventually be downlinked.
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