akuo   Opportunity in a sandtrap, again   May 29 2006, 08:15 AM
djellison   A whole lot of doom and gloom when we don't kn...   May 29 2006, 08:19 AM
jamescanvin   I agree Doug it's not anywhere near as bad a P...   May 29 2006, 08:32 AM
jamescanvin   Assuming it was (Edit: it was, thanks Tesh) - the ...   May 29 2006, 08:44 AM
akuo   The rear wheels don't seem to be as deep in th...   May 29 2006, 08:58 AM
Ant103   Okay Akuo. This significate that it's not desp...   May 29 2006, 09:18 AM
climber   I must admit that the situation is not clear to me...   May 29 2006, 09:35 AM
akuo   QUOTE (climber @ May 29 2006, 09:35 AM) I...   May 29 2006, 09:55 AM
Myran   Indeed jamescanvin, it was supposedly 24 m of driv...   May 29 2006, 10:12 AM
Vladimorka   This is what happens when JPLers don't follow ...   May 29 2006, 10:35 AM
djellison   where's the 24m figure coming from? Doug   May 29 2006, 10:46 AM
jamescanvin   QUOTE (djellison @ May 29 2006, 08:46 PM)...   May 29 2006, 12:10 PM
PhilCo126   Hopefully no Purgatory-Dune scenario ! It took...   May 29 2006, 10:49 AM
ustrax   QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ May 29 2006, 11:49 AM)...   May 29 2006, 10:52 AM
djellison   Ahh - it may well be that 24m was the expected dri...   May 29 2006, 12:20 PM
Tesheiner   I have the impression that those numbers are deriv...   May 29 2006, 12:22 PM
jamescanvin   I don't think that's the case Doug - there...   May 29 2006, 12:30 PM
Tesheiner   Just one remark about the z axis, James. I think -...   May 29 2006, 12:35 PM
jamescanvin   You could be right, I assumed it was down by the r...   May 29 2006, 12:45 PM
jamescanvin   Here is the tracking data for Purgatory and the No...   May 29 2006, 01:03 PM
Sunspot   How did it happen? I thought they put lots of dri...   May 29 2006, 01:52 PM
djellison   QUOTE (Sunspot @ May 29 2006, 02:52 PM) H...   May 29 2006, 02:29 PM
climber   A few questions : It seams to me that rear weels d...   May 29 2006, 01:53 PM
Tesheiner   > It seams to me that rear weels didn't get...   May 29 2006, 02:35 PM
climber   [quote name='Tesheiner' date='May 29 2...   May 29 2006, 08:01 PM
djellison   I think the visidom combo they use is essentially ...   May 29 2006, 02:46 PM
RNeuhaus   QUOTE (djellison @ May 29 2006, 09:46 AM)...   May 29 2006, 07:17 PM
jamescanvin   QUOTE (djellison @ May 30 2006, 12:46 AM)...   May 29 2006, 09:29 PM
ustrax   Where are we? Doesn't look like the same place...   May 30 2006, 09:30 AM
jamescanvin   QUOTE (ustrax @ May 30 2006, 07:30 PM) Wh...   May 30 2006, 12:10 PM
ustrax   Thanks for clarifying that james.   May 30 2006, 12:55 PM
Tesheiner   Speaking of "when should we expect a backward...   May 29 2006, 04:13 PM
Bill Harris   This sort of mishap is not unexpected. Although t...   May 29 2006, 04:52 PM
Oersted   Can't believe this, obviously one of the rover...   May 29 2006, 06:30 PM
lyford   Pardon me if I missed this info - I am scanning th...   May 29 2006, 06:27 PM
djellison   QUOTE (lyford @ May 29 2006, 07:27 PM) Th...   May 29 2006, 06:50 PM
akuo   QUOTE (lyford @ May 29 2006, 06:27 PM) Pa...   May 29 2006, 06:54 PM
Shaka   Do the MER drive motors have variable speed? If...   May 29 2006, 06:51 PM
djellison   QUOTE (Shaka @ May 29 2006, 07:51 PM) D I...   May 29 2006, 07:08 PM
djellison   Yes - a few months ago we were talking about how t...   May 29 2006, 07:29 PM
Tesheiner   > Thanks so much M.Tesheiner to have taken time...   May 29 2006, 08:59 PM
climber   [quote name='Tesheiner' date='May 29 2...   May 29 2006, 09:09 PM
djellison   one of many quite old images coming down the pipe,...   May 30 2006, 09:36 AM
ustrax   QUOTE (djellison @ May 30 2006, 10:36 AM)...   May 30 2006, 10:05 AM
Shaka   QUOTE (ustrax @ May 30 2006, 12:05 AM) Aa...   May 30 2006, 05:33 PM
akuo   Might as well be from the afternoon pass, since th...   May 30 2006, 09:43 AM
SigurRosFan   Nice break. - http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/op...   May 30 2006, 10:32 AM
Tesheiner   Speaking of slippage detection & driving modes...   May 30 2006, 02:58 PM
ilbasso   We're just killing time here to ensure that Op...   May 30 2006, 03:23 PM
ustrax   Words from Mr. Squyres: 'We don't think s...   May 30 2006, 04:57 PM
BrianL   QUOTE (ustrax @ May 30 2006, 10:57 AM) Wo...   May 30 2006, 05:37 PM
RNeuhaus   QUOTE (ustrax @ May 30 2006, 11:57 AM) Wo...   May 30 2006, 08:01 PM
djellison   Ustrax emailed him. He replied. Doug   May 30 2006, 06:46 PM
akuo   Jeez, nice going Ustrax. Nice to hear it from Stev...   May 30 2006, 07:06 PM
Tman   Yea good to hear that! I guess they'll s...   May 30 2006, 07:22 PM
Tesheiner   It's good to hear that they are not really con...   May 30 2006, 07:49 PM
Nix   Thanks Ustrax, nice to hear from Steve himself. ...   May 30 2006, 07:52 PM
fredk   Thanks for passing that along, Ustrax! There ...   May 30 2006, 10:26 PM
jamescanvin   Plan for Sol 835: CODESol Seq.Ver ETH ESF EDN EF...   May 30 2006, 11:34 PM
ustrax   QUOTE (fredk @ May 30 2006, 11:26 PM) Tha...   May 31 2006, 09:58 AM
CosmicRocker   Thanks for mentioning the official update, fredk. ...   May 31 2006, 03:56 AM
Bill Harris   To that Oy Vey, I can only add "ribbet"....   May 31 2006, 04:18 AM
Martial   What do you think about this new picture ? http...   May 31 2006, 05:01 PM
antoniseb   QUOTE (Martial @ May 31 2006, 11:01 AM) W...   May 31 2006, 06:04 PM
RNeuhaus   QUOTE (Martial @ May 31 2006, 12:01 PM) W...   May 31 2006, 07:06 PM
Stephen   I was more impressed by this one: http://qt.explo...   Jun 1 2006, 01:35 AM
Stephen   Incidently, speaking of that last entry of mine th...   Jun 1 2006, 01:51 AM
RNeuhaus   QUOTE (Stephen @ May 31 2006, 08:51 PM) I...   Jun 1 2006, 02:35 AM
dilo   QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Jun 1 2006, 02:35 AM) G...   Jun 1 2006, 05:09 AM
Joffan   I don't think Opportunity backed up at any poi...   May 31 2006, 07:44 PM
RNeuhaus   Yes or no. The pictures there are two tracks, are...   May 31 2006, 08:01 PM
Joffan   QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ May 31 2006, 02:01 PM) ...   May 31 2006, 10:36 PM
alan   CODE 836 p1214.05 2 0 0 2 0 4 front_haz_...   May 31 2006, 08:42 PM
djellison   Plenty of lessons learnt at purgatory - they know ...   May 31 2006, 09:01 PM
fredk   How's this for some wild speculation: the bed...   May 31 2006, 10:14 PM
Tesheiner   QUOTE (fredk @ Jun 1 2006, 12:14 AM) How...   Jun 1 2006, 08:44 AM
jamescanvin   Some colour shots of this mess.   Jun 1 2006, 02:08 AM
Stephen   QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Jun 1 2006, 02:08 AM...   Jun 1 2006, 02:48 AM
jamescanvin   And in false colour.   Jun 1 2006, 02:30 AM
jamescanvin   The two Navcam frames stitched. EDIT: Replaced wi...   Jun 1 2006, 03:00 AM
Tesheiner   New images available; the backwards manouver has s...   Jun 1 2006, 07:42 AM
Stephen   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jun 1 2006, 07:42 AM) ...   Jun 1 2006, 09:48 AM
akuo   Yay! Oppy moves! http://qt.exploratorium....   Jun 1 2006, 07:43 AM
RNeuhaus   QUOTE (akuo @ Jun 1 2006, 02:43 AM) Yay...   Jun 1 2006, 02:58 PM
Tesheiner   An animated gif.   Jun 1 2006, 07:49 AM
Bill Harris   For reasons we do not completely understand now, s...   Jun 1 2006, 09:41 AM
Tesheiner   More important than absolute movement is the slipp...   Jun 1 2006, 10:02 AM
fredk   A few details here from New Scientist on Oppy...   Jun 1 2006, 05:56 PM
Tesheiner   QUOTE (fredk @ Jun 1 2006, 07:56 PM) A fe...   Jun 1 2006, 08:01 PM
SigurRosFan   QUOTE (fredk @ Jun 1 2006, 07:56 PM) A fe...   Jun 1 2006, 08:07 PM
jvandriel   Opportunity looking at the wheeltracks. Mosaic ...   Jun 1 2006, 07:44 PM
Tesheiner   Sol 837 is planned as driving sol; same/similar se...   Jun 1 2006, 07:52 PM
Joffan   I hope someone has remembered to disable or even i...   Jun 1 2006, 08:00 PM
akuo   I was thinking that JPL could implement a sort of ...   Jun 1 2006, 08:03 PM
djellison   To be honest Akuo - it would take just as long to ...   Jun 1 2006, 08:26 PM
akuo   At least it would be ready for the next time Oppy ...   Jun 1 2006, 08:29 PM
Nix   QUOTE (akuo @ Jun 1 2006, 10:03 PM) ... B...   Jun 1 2006, 09:03 PM
BillyMER   Oh great another investigation,how long this time ...   Jun 1 2006, 10:49 PM
WindyT   QUOTE (BillyMER @ Jun 1 2006, 10:49 PM) [...   Jun 2 2006, 06:15 AM
alan   QUOTE If the rover does extricate itself, mission ...   Jun 2 2006, 12:21 AM