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 26 2009, 03:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4252 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Since we've sunk about 5 mm in these drives, that does suggest Belly Rock is being pushed down too, which would be very good news. And if I squint at PDP's excellent MI animations, I can just imagine that I can see it getting pushed down. But it's still not entirely clear, since we don't know how far along Spirit's belly the rock is. One end of Spirit might be pivoting down and the other held up by the rock.
I have to say that the post by Maxwell that we need 50 cm to clear Belly Rock baffled me. The entire underbelly is only about 60 cm from front to back. So if he meant that we need 50 cm of movement to clear the belly, then the rock had to be around 10 cm from the front initially. But it looked like it was much farther back in the MI's. Maybe he meant we need 50 cm to clear the rear wheels. That would put the rock at something like 40 cm from the front of the belly, and behind the centre of mass, which would make much more sense. |
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