Here is the 360 degree panoramic view from Sol 760.

Taken with the L0 navcam.

jvandriel


and here from Sol 762.

Also taken with the L0 navcam.

jvandriel

and a look with the L2 pancam on Sol 762.

jvandriel

Another move on sol 766.
Edited: The net drive (assuming the location below is correct) was aprox. 35m.

This is the last navcam mosaic




... and where I think the rover is, based on 765 pancam images.



This post has been edited by Tesheiner: Mar 21 2006, 03:08 PM

Hi all,

As a longtime lurker I would just like to thank Tesheiner and so many others for the fine work they do in creating a context for the rovers' travels. Until I found this forum, I found it quite difficult to place the rovers at times until JPL did an updated route map.

If I could make a newbie request...

Could you occasionally mark Victoria's edges on the horizon of these pans so I know in which direction I should be straining my eyes?

Thanks
Brian

I was sort of expecting this. If you look at the best orbital images (sorry, don't have one handy) you can see that the texture of the dunes gets somoother the closer you get to the etched terrain.

Yeah, you guys are doing great work ! Vandriel (groeten uit Edam), Tesheiner, you guys are fast !

I suddenly feel that Oppy's going to make it to Victoria. I'm almost sure.

I love these machines ! They are incredible. Let us not forget (it has been a thread before) to step beyond the daily stream of images sometimes and realize that they wake up every morning (just like we do), doing what they're told to....(just like we do....most of the time), work like dogs (like we do), struggle through problems (), go to sleep when energy's running out (), and warm their skins in the sun as soon as they can(). Without having a single cell alive in them.

I love to see the looong tracks on the images again, it's been a while...

Go Oppy Go (and don't break a wire) !

Welcome to the forum, Brian.

With or without markings you can do the following. Since they started the trek towards Victoria, the imaging pattern has been always the same: a 5x1 navcam panorama centered at 162º. Given that those navcam shots are spaced 36º (10x36=360) and that Victoria is currently at 150º (16º fov), the result is that it should be "visible" at the center image, just a bit to the left.

Or you can always check at the "Victoria on the Horizon" thread.

I think of Spirit as a rock climber, and Opportunity as a ship, sailing on the ocean from port to port...

According to "MER Pancam Data Tracking Site" there will be no driving today...


...or am I reading these data wrong?

A complete 360 degree panoramic view on the way to Victoria.

Taken with the L0 navcam on Sol 765.

jvandriel

This is the complete pancam L2 view from Sol 765.

jvandriel

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For all we know, they might have decided to drive in a different direction based on the Navcam imagery, that wasnt covered in the Drive Dir Pancam imagery from the previous sol, and they've taken a day to recharge, take those images, and then move on.

Your suggestion's equally valid though - we'll find out in the next couple of hours.

Doug

That's bad for my EToA at Victoria of Sol 800. My optimistic guess assumed very little trouble or sight-seeing. Most of the terrain from here to there is low dunes on salt-flats (nothing new is obvious), and the team presumably would like to get to Victoria for possible new science, looking at deeper strata for this general location. Plus, the dunes are alligned favorably for a quick traverse.

Sight seing or not, there's still engineering constraints (you can't drive every single day) and human constraints ( restricted sols etc )

That we've had one sol which may not have had driving ( we don't know yet ) - is not only unsuprising, it's to be expected. I'd factor it - even if driving very aggresively, for driving to occur on average, every other day.

Doug