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Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point' |
 Jul 11 2011, 05:44 AM
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 The Poet Dude  Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60  |
QUOTE (fredk @ Jul 10 2011, 06:17 PM)  On the other hand, meteorites could've been more easily hidden in the higher ripples on the N-S leg. Aww, don't say that!!!!   -------------------- |
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Jul 11 2011, 06:52 AM
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QUOTE (Sunspot @ Jul 9 2011, 11:41 PM) Why so few drives the last couple of weeks?  If you had been paying attention, you would know. They've been making progress as fast as practical and possible. |
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Jul 11 2011, 07:32 AM
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QUOTE (Sunspot @ Jul 10 2011, 08:41 AM) Why so few drives the last couple of weeks? Restricted sols, USA holiday, DSN problems, full flash. These things happen. On a related note it looks like tosols drive faulted out - but only after near 150m of driving. 
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Jul 11 2011, 02:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Jul 11 2011, 02:32 AM) On a related note it looks like tosols drive faulted out - but only after near 150m of driving. Could this have something to do with the drive fault? Front wheels. Or is this what the backward drive dance step looks like mid turn--must as right front wheel no longer turns. OK, hopefully no problem, fault just happened mid dance step. -------------------- |
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Jul 11 2011, 02:25 PM
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They sometimes look like that: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...QTP1205R0M1.JPG from 23rd June
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Jul 11 2011, 02:50 PM
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The long 2652 drive was enough to finally start to get us over the crest of the very subtle ridge that's been blocking our view of Endeavour (and CY). Here's a comparison of the last two positions:
The horizon should drop faster and faster now... |
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Jul 11 2011, 03:37 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
If you stretch one of today's navcam images vertically, you get this...
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Jul 11 2011, 03:41 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10167 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Fasten your seatbelts!
(but it will still be a few days before we arc over the curving crest enough to see the goal) Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jul 11 2011, 04:27 PM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Jul 11 2011, 09:50 AM) The long 2652 drive was enough to finally start to get us over the crest My blinking gif Sol 2649 - Sol 2652 - Yay! - Sol 2649 - Sol 2652 - Yay! - Sol 2649 - So 2652 - Yay! - Sol 2649 - Sol 2652 - Yay! - Sol 2649 - Sol 2652 - Yay! Jack |
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Jul 11 2011, 06:18 PM
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I made up a little tune a while back called "Cresting the Rise", and I thought this might be a good thing to share with the UMSF Rover fans...
Something to listen to while we wait...
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Jul 11 2011, 07:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
[quote name='Floyd' post='175401' date='Jul 11 2011, 03:15 PM']Could this have something to do with the drive fault?
Yeah, looks like the drive faulted after the turn back to the drive direction but before the wheels were straightened (apart from the RF which never turns of course). Hopefully something simple like a slip check fail and not an issue with a steering actuator (edit just catching up on Twitter and I see Scott talking about driving so I guess it wasn't anything serious )
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Jul 11 2011, 09:38 PM
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Comparing Oppy before Cape York and Spirit before Columbia Hills
We are just about 1500 meters before Cape York, and still see nothing. For comparison: View of Lahontan crater, just at the same distance (1500m) like Oppy is before Cape York: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...ntan_Crater.jpg Still cannot believe we are so close.
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Jul 11 2011, 09:59 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
It's not a huge surprise or shock we can't see CY yet. SPirit saw the Columbias so early and so clearly because they were sticking up out of the landscape, the highest point in it. We've known for ages that CY is over our horizon, actually inside the bowl of Endeavour, so we'll have to be at the highest point in the local landscape, looking down into Endeavour, before we see it properly, and on the top of the local ridge before we see its highest parts at all.
If you look at a bath from the side you can't see the dirt ring around the inside until you peer over the edge... But I think that soon, very soon now, we'll see the summits of CY's peaks appear on the horizon.
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Jul 11 2011, 10:01 PM
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QUOTE (MoreInput @ Jul 11 2011, 02:38 PM) Comparing Oppy before Cape York and Spirit before Columbia Hills Why? One is about 20x taller than the other. |
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Jul 11 2011, 10:30 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
We may even see something like this* soon...
* but probably won't!  -------------------- |
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