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This event deserves its own thread.
To quote the illustrious Dr. King -- "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we're free at last! So, how much y'all want to bet we'll stay here for a few sols, looking very carefully at the tracks and waiting for the MER Team to figure out how to proceed from here? -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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That's one heck of a deep trench. (With Opie's luck it will be filling up with water soon.)
![]() From MSNBC: Where will Opportunity go? Eventually, Opportunity will resume its southward trek, heading first for a bright feature nicknamed the Erebus Highway, about 130 yards (120 meters) away, Squyres said. The "highway" could be a stretch of exposed bedrock, leading toward Erebus Crater — which would be a very good thing for Squyres and his colleagues. Or it could be a huge pile of Martian dust. "If it's dust, then we've got to stop and rethink a whole bunch of things," Squyres said. Squyres said the mission team intended to have Opportunity press on to Erebus Crater, roughly 440 yards (400 meters) away, despite the past month's difficulties. "To just turn tail and run after we've had one unfortunate event is just not the way we're going to do business," he said. But he said Opportunity would go at a slower pace from here on out, taking more advantage of the safety measures built into its software. "The first rule in a situation like this is, do no harm," Squyres said. "These are literally priceless machines. ... We're going to move thoughtfully on this from now on." |
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