Getting to 'Big Crater', A little premature speculation |
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Getting to 'Big Crater', A little premature speculation |
 Oct 2 2006, 09:02 PM
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 Junior Member  Group: Members Posts: 71 Joined: 11-May 05 From: Colorado USA Member No.: 386  |
Hmm.... give us some free comm time, a little training, and I bet a group of the folks here would volunteer to keep Oppy going for several years.
If you stay in one spot you are almost sure to find nothing new, but you never know what you might find if you keep roving. Yes, I would rather see Oppy die in the middle of nowhere while trying to do something, than retire in place, running down to nothing for no purpose. "Rove until Death!" |
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Oct 3 2006, 04:48 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
I cannot conceive of them cutting off funding on either rover if they're still working and in reasonably good health.
The instruments are *already* on Mars, and have worked extraordinarily well. Just the Pancam images, with all their filters, are highly valuable, even if the mini-TES and the IDD sensors break. Does it make sense to spend the money on platforms that are already performing on Mars, or on platforms that we hope will successfully land there someday? (Yes, we ought to do both -- but I can't see foresaking working explorers to put the money into another program that might possibly end up elsewhere from where they're targeted, like the bottom of the Atlantic...) -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Oct 3 2006, 09:18 AM
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 Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (sranderson @ Oct 2 2006, 10:02 PM)  "Rove until Death!" Couldn't agree more. This babies are of a...roving kind, I'd rather see them proudly getting silence while on duty. Sending us a last image as a farewell from somewhere ahead, beyond Victoria. Opportunity (and Spirit...) are the perfect ambassadors of human nature, by saying that our adventure on Mars won't stop where predicted but when the last breath is taken. -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Oct 4 2006, 07:46 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 599 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 476 |
Likewise, I like to imagine Opportinunity on her final trek across the great desert beyond, going until she can't go any further...
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Oct 4 2006, 11:23 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
....sort of like the cartoon of an alien, crawling across desert sands, away from ?his? crashed flying saucer, and saying: "Ammonia! Ammonia!"
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Oct 7 2006, 06:06 AM
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Pity that Big Crater fell just out of the scope of yesterday's MRO imaging.
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Oct 7 2006, 06:47 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
LOL - 'just' - you'd need another two HiRISE images to get across to it.
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Oct 7 2006, 08:33 AM
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LOL?
-------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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Oct 7 2006, 07:31 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Laugh Out Loud
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Oct 8 2006, 05:40 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Sorry, Doug. I should have explained it better. I know what LOL means, I just didn't get the joke. NNTR.
-------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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Oct 8 2006, 06:01 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I was laughing at the thought that 'Big Crater' was just outside that HiRISE image...which it isn't. You would need another two swathes widths to get there.
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Oct 8 2006, 09:37 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 15-April 05 Member No.: 234 |
Oops,
The orientation of the .._1780 image was upside down compared to images I normally see of Victoria/ Big Crater  Which brings me back to my orginal question: is there some time line/ planning what parts of Mars are being imaged by MRO? Or is it for outsiders purely coincidental what images become available? |
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Oct 9 2006, 12:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
As far as I know, MRO will take pictures landing sites for Phoenix as the highest priority since the spring in the northern hemisphere is approaching soon and that seasson will be a problem with the increase of dust density in the atmosphere. Later, the other priorities is around the Chasmas as the one of the favorites MSL landing sities.
Rodolfo |
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Oct 9 2006, 12:47 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
QUOTE (ToSeek @ Oct 2 2006, 08:11 AM) I realize you weren't particularly serious, but I still didn't want LM to get credit where credit wasn't due, particularly since they have a long history of million-dollar screwups. Preachin' to the choir, here...I used to do avionics maintenance on C-5s & C-141s. Whenever a malfunction would abruptly disappear for no apparent reason, we'd call it a "Lockheed fix"... 
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 9 2006, 02:04 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2511 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
QUOTE (ToSeek @ Sep 30 2006, 06:37 PM) I'd say LM can get royalties as soon as they reimburse NASA for the Mars Climate Orbiter, Genesis, and HESSI. What did they have to do with HESSI? (which was nearly trashed by an inhouse test accident at JPL.) -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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