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Spirit's New Adventures, The Mission Beyond 1000 Sols

fredk View Member Profile	Jan 30 2007, 08:38 PM Post #241
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152	According to the jpl spirit update, 10 metres is as close as they dare get: QUOTE In the coming week, scientists plan to have Spirit retrace its tracks toward a soil exposure known as "Tyrone" for additional panoramic camera images and miniature thermal emission spectrometer measurements to be taken from a distance of about 10 meters.

Jan 31 2007, 10:38 AM

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Another small step on sol 1094.
This is the current position, as seen from the previous one on sol 1092.

mhoward View Member Profile	Feb 1 2007, 12:58 AM Post #243
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98	The full sol 1092-1093 Navcam pan:

Feb 1 2007, 02:21 PM

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Here's a polar version of mhoward's new panorama. The tracks show up really well.

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Guest_Oersted_*	Feb 1 2007, 03:05 PM Post #245
Guests	What happened to "the Abyss"? Those two dark streaks one third in from either side... Was a new layer of sand dumped in the middle of it, and are they the edges of it? - Sorry if this has been observed before, maybe it is just me not following the mission close enough.

ustrax View Member Profile	Feb 1 2007, 03:08 PM Post #246
Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra \| Portugal Member No.: 228	QUOTE (Oersted @ Feb 1 2007, 03:05 PM) What happened to "the Abyss"? You can catch up what has been happening on El Dorado in this thread. -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!" Edgar Alan Poe

Tesheiner View Member Profile	Feb 1 2007, 03:22 PM Post #247
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253	QUOTE (fredk @ Jan 30 2007, 09:38 PM) According to the jpl spirit update, 10 metres is as close as they dare get: The rover is currently (as of sol 1094/1095) at about that distance. Well, between 10m and 13m; Tyrone is quite big. But that seems to be not close enough so yet another move is on the plan: sol 1096. I hope that's the last one (). I'm eager to see this little machine on the way to Home Plate again! Edited: () I think it'll probably be the last one. If the plan is to study Tyrone with the pancam and mini-TES, there is no need (imo) to spend more then the weekend on those activities. Let's see if we can say "Good bye Tyrone" by next monday.

fredk View Member Profile	Feb 2 2007, 12:10 AM Post #248
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152	Nice polar, Phil, thanks. From the latest Plantetary Society update, an explanation of the interest in returning towards Tyrone: QUOTE We have that 6-micrometer feature in the mini-TES spectra, the water band, and that's pretty exciting and we have water-related materials produced in the regolith, not as outcrop but in the regolith. We probably need 5 sols' worth of observations at a minimum. and QUOTE My idea – and this is my own personal hypothesis – is we might be looking at evaporitic salts that have come from acid solutions, water solutions bleaching McCool Hill, just coming up and evaporating right at the base through the regolith that was at the base of the hill and forming these sulfate-rich salts. After homeplate, the plan is to QUOTE head to the southwest toward Goddard and Von Braun, a little mesa and another circular feature. Yes!

Feb 3 2007, 12:09 PM

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Here is the complete Navcam panoramic view taken on

Sol 1092 and Sol 1093.

Taken with the L0 Navcam.

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Feb 3 2007, 12:39 PM

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Another panoramic view of the wheeltracks in front and at the back of Spirit.

Taken with the L0 Navcam on Sol 1094.

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Feb 3 2007, 01:15 PM

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and the last one for tosol

the complete 360 degree panoramic view taken

with the L0 Navcam on Sol 1096.

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centsworth_II View Member Profile	Feb 3 2007, 05:03 PM Post #252
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132	Is it too early to speculate on where Spirit will spend it's third winter?