Going To Mogollon..., ...and points South |
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Going To Mogollon..., ...and points South |
 Mar 12 2006, 11:48 AM
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Oppy seems to have driven down the ramp on sol 757.
 See here: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...C3P1312L0M1.JPG BTW, the planned seqs. indicate no post-drive nav/pancams for sol 757 but movement again and panoramas on sol 758. |
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Mar 12 2006, 01:16 PM
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QUOTE OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Hawkeyeing from the 'Half Pipes' - sol 751-756, Mar 11, 2006: Opportunity is healthy and making its way south along the "Payson" outcrop of "Erebus Crater." The traverse paths are known within the team as "half-pipes," after the popular Olympic event. Last week Opportunity drove along one half-pipe, collecting high-resolution panoramic camera images of the outcrop. (The team calls this "scoot and shoot"). The rover has now left this path, and the team has planned a drive to the next half-pipe. Depending on traversability, Opportunity will either continue its scoot-and-shoot outcrop imaging campaign over the weekend, or start down the road to "Victoria Crater." That seems to be the current driving plan. These two Mogollon Rim outcrops are just too valuable to pass by. http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/s...tml#opportunity --Bill -------------------- |
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Mar 12 2006, 01:17 PM
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... and this is the approx. new position as seen from sol 755 pancam.
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Mar 12 2006, 06:06 PM
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QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Mar 12 2006, 02:16 PM)  These two Mogollon Rim outcrops are just too valuable to pass by. --Bill Of course we'll need to check them out, but I bet they'll turn out to not be "too valuable to check out". We really need to get out of this less than impressive place... Funny how blasé one gets, if we think back to the reaction everybody had at the Eagle crater outcrop! |
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Mar 12 2006, 08:50 PM
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A "roadcut" exposure like this, on the Plain of the Flat, is valuable because it is a window to subsurface conditions. At a minimum Oppy will do Pancam imaging, but maybe not bring out the handlens and scratchplate.
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Mar 13 2006, 09:03 AM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Mar 12 2006, 12:48 PM) BTW, the planned seqs. indicate no post-drive nav/pancams for sol 757 but movement again and panoramas on sol 758. Now that was an interesting move! On sol 757, driving down to the outcrop indicated on my quoted post, ending the day with a pancam mosaic (pancam_hokan_pm_L7R1). On the morning of sol 758, repeat the same pancam mosaic (pancam_hokan_am_L257R1) and about noon drive back up the slope to about the same place as of sol 756.
(Sol 758 post-drive navcam pano) Edited: This is a crop of sol 757 evening pancam mosaic. Have we seen that kind of layering before? 
Some original images: http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportu...C3P2364R1M1.JPG and http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportu...C3P2364R1M1.JPG |
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Mar 13 2006, 09:17 AM
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QUOTE (mhoward @ Mar 11 2006, 06:12 AM) New clouds at Meridian:  Wow, it's very impressive! The sky rendering is very good, that's a good work. Congratulation 
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Mar 13 2006, 11:12 AM
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A little item to entertain...
On a thread somewhere we were talking about music for Oppy's travels and the sounds the MERs make. There was also a suggestion of a panorama-movie too.  Never one to pass up a challenge, there's a rough first go at a little movie of Opportunity at Payson Passage (the half-pipe) on my webpage. File: 1.4mb WMV MyMERSFX Enjoy  Astro0 PS: There's also two new views of Opportunity visiting its heatshield. |
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Mar 13 2006, 01:48 PM
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It was here:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...637&#entry44637 Utterly overwhelming, spine tingling vision. I am close to tears! Thankyou Astro0 Nick |
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Mar 13 2006, 02:52 PM
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The last drive-direction pancam images (from sol 758) are basically looking South to the dunes sea.
(The rightmost frame is still missing) I have the good feeling that the journey to Victoria crater will start on sol 760!  PS: Once they start driving by the dunes, polar and/or vertical projections will be a *must* in order to have a reliable route map. Dilo, what about your POV-Ray issues? This post has been edited by Tesheiner: Mar 13 2006, 03:03 PM |
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Mar 13 2006, 03:18 PM
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QUOTE (Ant103 @ Mar 13 2006, 09:17 AM) Wow, it's very impressive! The sky rendering is very good, that's a good work. Congratulation Thanks. Let me just add, since I didn't comment on it at the time, that it's not meant to be a great work of art or anything; the main point for me was that it shows the images in their correct position. When I saw those cloud images, I really wanted to know if they were a mosaic and, if so, where they were relative to the local scenery. Turns out the answers are "yes" and "south" respectively. I'm sure somebody else could do a much better job stitching the images together.
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Mar 13 2006, 03:38 PM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Mar 13 2006, 05:52 PM) I have the good feeling that the journey to Victoria crater will start on sol 760! Why sol760? What's wrong with sol759? Today would be good day to start driving...  P.S. Thanks for the regularly posted maps Tesheiner!!!
-------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
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Mar 13 2006, 03:47 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
B)--> QUOTE(Toma B @ Mar 13 2006, 04:38 PM) Why sol760? What's wrong with sol759? [/quote] Nothing wrong, except that the "post-drive" images from sol 758 -- required to plan the next movement -- were not available in time to prepare and uplink the next set of driving commands on sol 759. They must wait for the following sol; it's known as "restricted sols". PS: I'm assuming sol 760 will be a driving sol; according to the tracking web it's not yet planned. |
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Mar 13 2006, 03:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
When will "restricted sols" end?
It's been a week or two of "restricted sols" already? -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Mar 13 2006, 04:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Wait a minute!
Sol 759 has barely started (it is only 04:30 am at Meridiani), so let's wait and see what happens tosol. At the end you may be right.
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