Post Solar Conjunction/Santorini Study Drive, The second leg in our Journey to Endeavor Crater |
Post Solar Conjunction/Santorini Study Drive, The second leg in our Journey to Endeavor Crater |
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Dec 21 2008, 08:58 PM
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As we are about to end our study of The Cobble Santorini and getting ready to hit the road again.
I think it's time we start a new topic on the drive to come. What challenges do we face and can we keep to solid pavement as much as possible and a Merry Christmas to our little buddies on The Planet Mars. |
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Jan 19 2009, 01:32 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10196 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Oh well, the last ridge before Endeavour, then! Point is - it will be visible for quite a way. Actually its small size will be the limiting factor. But Victoria itself might show up on the horizon for quite a distance, long after the tiny beacon is smaller than a pixel.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 19 2009, 07:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 713 Joined: 30-March 05 Member No.: 223 |
(I moved this here from the "route-map" thread)
The following quote from Steve Squyres leads me to expect that Opportunity will stay in one location for up to one month after every one or two km of its journey to Endeavor: “It’s something we’ve decided we should do every so often – like every kilometer or two as we work our way south – to see if there are any trends,” said Squyres." This would mean spending about one year (!) of the remaining rover lifetime for routine rock sampling alone... But I still hope that the plan is to invest the bulk of the remaining life time in studies at Endeavour Crater, which is the main and highest priority scientific target, if I understood Steve S. correctly The intermediate routine sampling stops will likely be significantly shorter in the future (1-2 weeks) with the potential for longer stops only in the case that we discover something entirely new along the way (BTW it is this latter possibility, that makes driving larger distances to new horizons so important IMHO So I for myself rather take the last part of Steves quote: QUOTE Opportunity will rove on, he said, “and we’ll start driving fast again.”
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Jan 19 2009, 07:25 PM
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