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 Jan 3 2006, 11:48 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 3 2006, 11:30 AM) I think we'll get a good view of all of El-D from the home plate area, till then it's just a side-on view I guess. I still cant figure out where that BIG drive was without any same-sol-post-drive-imaging. It looks like the saved the post drive imaging for the following sol. Doug  I thought we had made a great drive for reaching the dunes, like...covering the entire 'abyss' area, but no... Only now I understood what path Spirit is taking, something like this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/ustrax/eldmap2b.jpg Or here, El Dorado is the dark stripe right in the middle of the Ultreya area: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/ust...eyafrontier.jpg -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jan 3 2006, 11:58 AM
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Jan 3 2006, 12:03 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 3 2006, 11:58 AM) Yeap...Tesheiner leads the way... 
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jan 3 2006, 12:08 PM
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Actually - for once, JPL's up to date as well
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/tm-spirit/index.html Doug |
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Jan 3 2006, 12:10 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 3 2006, 12:08 PM) Actually - for once, JPL's up to date as well http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/tm-spirit/index.html Doug Yes...When I said that I tought Spirit was more to the west I was based on the recent traverse maps, forgot the link...
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jan 3 2006, 09:50 PM
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Movin' south:
  'Guess it's time for a new topic soon. Although I'm sure El Dorado discussion will continue. Edit: Looks like the new topic is up 
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Jan 3 2006, 10:03 PM
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Today's (sol 712) drive was really short.
I really wonder if that zig-zag was intended or it was an aborted drive... Sol 711: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/fo...B6P1212L0M1.JPG Sol 712: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/fo...BUP1212L0M1.JPG |
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Jan 3 2006, 10:05 PM
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QUOTE (mhoward @ Jan 3 2006, 09:50 PM) Edit: Looks like the new topic is up Yes I did..  And new images (also PanCam) are arriving now! -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Jan 3 2006, 10:13 PM
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How long will the rovers' tracks remain relatively intact? Has anyone estimated the erosion rates for the two rovers?
-------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 3 2006, 10:29 PM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jan 3 2006, 10:03 PM) Today's (sol 712) drive was really short. I really wonder if that zig-zag was intended or it was an aborted drive... Sol 711: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/fo...B6P1212L0M1.JPG Sol 712: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/fo...BUP1212L0M1.JPG You're right. The rover seems to be having problems getting over this bit of ground. Check out the sequence of rear hazcam shots (she's driving backwards). Taking this to the other thread. |
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Jan 3 2006, 11:06 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 3 2006, 12:30 PM) I still cant figure out where that BIG drive was without any same-sol-post-drive-imaging. It looks like the saved the post drive imaging for the following sol. Doug Here is my guess for sol 711/712 position. The base image is from the set of drive-direction pancams taken on sol 707(?).
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Jan 3 2006, 11:27 PM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jan 3 2006, 11:06 PM) Here is my guess for sol 711/712 position. The base image is from the set of drive-direction pancams taken on sol 707(?). That's where I figured we were too. The funny shaped rock on the right of that spot seems to be visible in front hazcam images too http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/fo...BUP1212R0M1.JPG . -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Jan 3 2006, 11:43 PM
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here is a hand-colored version of the latest navcam shots
(I really like those autumn-evening shots with clear air and long, sharp shadows ...  (click for large version 400KB) |
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Jan 4 2006, 01:05 AM
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Nirgal, that is an absolutely stunning image, very poetic!
 congrats!
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Jan 4 2006, 01:18 AM
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New Steve Squyres Update
QUOTE At Gusev, we have been to El Dorado, sampled the sands there thoroughly, and moved on. We got a spectacular Pancam panorama of the whole area that'll be ready to be released very soon. We also got some stunning MI images that show that the grains are very well rounded and remarkably "well sorted" -- i.e., all nearly the same size. And we got solid Mini-TES, APXS and Moessbauer data that tell us that the sands of El Dorado are composed of a very clean, olivine-rich basalt.
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