Extricating Spirit, Digging out from Troy |
Extricating Spirit, Digging out from Troy |
Nov 7 2009, 04:13 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 18-December 07 From: New York Member No.: 3982 |
5 downsampled navcam frames from sol 2078 are down. Someone might want to make an animation.
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Nov 18 2009, 07:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4252 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
I think we can answer that. Looking carefully at the LF and LR wheels in the hazcams, we can identify features on the wheels (or in the powder caked on them) between sols 2079 and 2088:
It looks like the wheels turned only about half a wheel cleat. With 29 cleats all around, that gives a rotation of about 6 degrees, or about 1.7% of a full rotation. If 6.3% corresponds to one second at full speed, then this drive was about 1/4 second at full speed. Longer if slower. |
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