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 29 2009, 02:53 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 18-December 07 From: New York Member No.: 3982 |
Very little apparent movement from today’s drive. On a related note, how are you guys getting Spirits movement from the tracking site?
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Nov 29 2009, 06:16 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 5-October 06 Member No.: 1227 |
Very little apparent movement from today’s drive. On a related note, how are you guys getting Spirits movement from the tracking site? Yes, looking at the forward and rear hazcams it looks like Spirit just pivoted ever so slightly clockwise around the RF wheel which did not slide at all. Should Spirit continue to try to move forward (which may just cause more pivoting around that wheel), or should she back up a bit and try then pushing forward again to get the RF sliding again? I guess we will just wait and see what they try next... |
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Nov 30 2009, 04:43 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 507 Joined: 10-September 08 Member No.: 4338 |
Should Spirit continue to try to move forward (which may just cause more pivoting around that wheel), ... If Spirit could pivot all the way around the RF wheel, it would be out of the crater and facing in the opposite direction. At that point it could just drive backward dragging the wheel again. So maybe pivoting is not so bad. |
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Nov 30 2009, 07:42 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 311 Joined: 31-August 05 From: Florida & Texas, USA Member No.: 482 |
Wow, this is just a nail-biter to wait for news each day. Let me see if I can summarize the action for those of us who've missed a few days of news due to holidays.
Short term goal: move forward 50 cm to clear Belly Rock. Long term goal: move forward ~1m to escape Troy? Update for Sol 2095 (Nov 24th) Total commanded movement since Sol 2088 (Nov 17): 8.1 m Total successfully processed movement (wheel spin): 5.6 m Total forward movement: 15.7 mm Total sinkage: 4.8 mm Perhaps it's meaningless to project with just 2 datapoints, but if this ratio of motion is maintained, then to clear Belly Rock Spirit must churn about 178m of wheel spinning and could sink 150mm! |
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Nov 30 2009, 09:09 PM
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