The West Valley Route |
The West Valley Route |
Mar 18 2009, 12:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Here're the latest navcam pictures taken during sol 1850: http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/navcam/2009-03-18/
Spirit is no longer stuck, but I think the attempt to go on top of HP via the NE path is finished and we are going to the West Valley. A pancam mosaic of the western route is planned for tosol. |
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Apr 9 2009, 07:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
So, maybe what we are seeing is an attempt to circumnav the sand patch by the left (east) side, almost touching HP's slope?
> I believe they gave priority to maintaining elevation. The mobility info from previous drives tells the rover is now around 70-80cm higher than before the move. |
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Apr 9 2009, 11:25 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 236 Joined: 5-June 08 From: Udon Thani Member No.: 4185 |
The mobility info from previous drives tells the rover is now around 70-80cm higher than before the move. If you look at the very useful projection from Astro0 here it looks to me like if you continue hugging the site of homeplate (which indeed seems the most logical thing to do) you will end up at a quite nasty sudden rocky patch (hidden from view from the present navcams as it slopes down at bit?) which does not look very good. To avoid it you would need to turn downslope a bit, but the sand over there looks even worse.. It seems almost impossible to get much drive-info from HiRISE, no matter how wonderful its resolution but you need to pancam and navcam images to make sense of what you are looking at. |
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