Extricating Spirit, Digging out from Troy |
Extricating Spirit, Digging out from Troy |
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5 downsampled navcam frames from sol 2078 are down. Someone might want to make an animation.
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So as I see it, they measure the effect of Mars' wobble on Spirit's radio signal in real time. Spirit can move between measurements without the overall study being effected. It seems to me that a much bigger problem would be motions due to thermal changes or a stiff breeze during the measurement.
NASA - Spirit's Journey to the Center of Mars "Mars wobbles, or precesses, as it spins," says Bruce Banerdt of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We'll measure that wobble by looking at the Doppler shift of Spirit's radio signal." |
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