I think there was a wake up call with the lack of bandwidth. kinda a "we'd better get all thoes images down we've been putting off just incase" heh

scott

But at least the horizon is not sea-flat as it has been. Not as interesting as Endurance where we could sample tantalizing previews of the interior bluffs as Oppy approached from Eagle.

I think that Erebus is going to be interesting as a window into the etched terrain.

--Bill

Hmmmmmm still going nowhere:

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...IHP1235R0M1.JPG

I wonder if they are contemplating an alternative route...

What, like via Olympus Mons or something

There are no other routes to take - I'm sure it's simply a combination of three things

battery charging - Oppy is on less power than Spirit now - about 30% less - so from time to time it makes sense to get a fully charged battery

data downlink - after heavy imaging at Vostok and the Vik/Voy twins, there was a lot of stuff in flash that still needed sending down - if they plan big drives in the future you needs lots of flash space for the autonav data

Mini-Tes - they may be taking a few sols out just to troubleshoot Mini-tes, see if they can find what's wrong with it and patch it up.

Doug

But why take front/rear haz pictures if you are not moving?

That image is from sol 431. Rawid output:
Acquisition time (Mars): Sol 431 11:15:23

As far as I see there are no images from sol 432 yet.

What are you using to extract all the file information? Date, time etc?

search the forum for rawid.exe


Doug

A small command line utility by Joe Knapp called Rawid. I can't find it on the net anymore. It used to be on his website at http://copperas.com/. Maybe you can email him, or failing that I still have the source code for it.

The full output of the utility is like this:
rawid http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...IHP1235R0M1.JPG
Image info for: 1F166444496EFF52IHP1235R0M1
Spacecraft: OPPORTUNITY
Camera: Forward HAZCAM, right
Spacecraft clock: 166444496 (seconds since January 1, 2000, 11:58:55.816 UTC)
Product type: EDR full frame
Site number: 52
Drive number: IH
Command sequence number: P1235 (PMA or remote sensing instrument) HAZCAM
Producer: MIPL/JPL
Acquisition time (Earth): Mon Apr 11 01:22:49 2005
Time zone: EET
Acquisition time (Mars): Sol 431 11:15:23
Current local time (Earth): Tue Apr 12 14:23:31 2005
Current local time (Mars): Sol 432 23:01:38
Elapsed time since acquisition: 1 day, 12:44:26

..........ah yes, I remember trying that, never managed to get it to work lol. I'm not very technologically adept, I don't know what the command line is lol I need something were you could just paste the filename into a box click a button and the file info is displayed

Is there any way someone could re-deploy raw-id via a webpage. It would be MUCH easier to just copy and paste into a text entrybox on a webpage and click submit - and have it come up with the results.

I have SQL and PHP hosting on this server if someone wants to give it a go.

Doug

Hey, I think Opportunity is on the move again...........

.....this looks like a TINY meteorite impact crater:

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P0703L0M1.JPG

Bright soil or just a reflection?. Might the etched terrain be a different soil type brought to the surface by victoria.... Nah! probably not.

A small app like MidnightMarsBrowser would do the job .. like you say, just paste the file name into a box and click submit........

Actually - yes - that's all that's needed. It's just annoying having to copy the filename into a batch file, save it, getting up a dos window, then running the batch file. A simple thing like MMB would be perfect.


Doug