Stroupe's Slide |
Stroupe's Slide |
Jan 4 2008, 07:20 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Paolo's got his plunge over at Meridiani....and thanks to Ashley's driving, we now have - Stroupe's Slide here at Gusev. It took an email or two to figure out the best alliteration for it. Somehow 'Ashley's Favorable Incline' didn't quite scan, and Home Plate North is just so..dull. And where better to slide, than home plate! Even after as much careful planning ( that some suggested was too conservative ) it was still a major effort to get Spirit safe in time - so kudos to Ashley Stroupe and her colleagues for dealing with a couple of Mars jet-lagged weeks and giving us a shot at celebrating a 5th Martian Birthday.
Get comfortable, we may be here some time Doug |
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Feb 21 2008, 05:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
Spirit could just climb down and take an easy route up.
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Feb 21 2008, 06:42 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 206 Joined: 15-August 07 From: Shrewsbury, Shropshire Member No.: 3233 |
Spirit could just climb down and take an easy route up. I had always assumed that Spirit had now finished investigating Home Plate and that when Winter was over it will drive down slope and then around the base of Home Plate on its way to Goddard. One hope that I have is that Spirit will land at the bottom of the slope with a bump and that this will shake great clogs of dust off Spirits solar panels. I was interested to read in a recent comment by Steve Squyres that he expected Spirit to find some more silica deposits. I guess that Spirit will make a lot of discoveries in the 400m long trench that it will dig as it drives to Goddard. |
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Feb 21 2008, 09:54 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
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Feb 22 2008, 08:13 PM
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The shortest route to Goddard is across Home Plate. Yes, but it would have to climb back onto Home Plate to do that - not sure that's feasible from the current location. (I was at a talk by one of the rover drivers last weekend, who was all for trying to climb back up to see what happened, but he said the scientists were dead set against it.) |
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Feb 23 2008, 07:24 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
(I was at a talk by one of the rover drivers last weekend, who was all for trying to climb back up to see what happened, but he said the scientists were dead set against it.) I'm sure that Spirit's present location -- picked to give the greatest tilt to the north -- is the worst spot to try and climb up onto Home plate. I'm also sure that there are better spots to climb up near by. |
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Feb 25 2008, 07:45 PM
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I'm sure that Spirit's present location -- picked to give the greatest tilt to the north -- is the worst spot to try and climb up onto Home plate. I'm also sure that there are better spots to climb up near by. The rover driver wasn't expecting to succeed, but from an engineering perspective he was thinking it would be worth the try. |
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