To the Cape!, Quackmire and arm troubles |
To the Cape!, Quackmire and arm troubles |
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"Hey folks! I’m on-duty with Opportunity this week and it’s going to be pretty exciting. We are in the process of driving the rover over to the wall of Cape Verde to study the layers of rocks there in much greater detail. I will be posting updates all week with the spectacular new pictures that we should be receiving. Stay tuned, it’s going to be a pretty cool week!"
Thanks for the update Ryan : http://martianchronicles.wordpress.com/200...ng-to-the-cape/ I wonder how close they'll get. I think no closer than the height projected from it's base ( i.e. 45 degrees ) |
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![]() The Poet Dude ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 ![]() |
I did wonder about camera noise, but the same specks seem visible to me on quite a few of the pancam shots of this view, thru different filters, so I thought... Oh well, maybe I got this wrong, sorry everyone. Just looked like a good match to me.
That'll teach me to get all enthusiastic about "pretty pictures"... ![]() -------------------- |
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I did wonder about camera noise, but the same specks seem visible to me on quite a few of the pancam shots of this view, thru different filters, so I thought... Oh well, maybe I got this wrong, sorry everyone. Just looked like a good match to me. The two bright and big specks are only visible in a single frame. Also the lower speck is clearly elongated, making it a lot more likely to be a cosmic ray hit than a planet. There are bright single pixels that are visible in almost all of these frames, which do stay in the same position. I think these are hot pixels in the right hand side CCD, made more obvious by the long exposure times required in late afteroon. -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 ![]() |
The images are to the east, but east-southeast not east-northeast. Also, the same bright points are nowhere to be seen either three minutes before or three minutes after in the series of flatfield images. Sorry.
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