Some Statistics for Spirit & Oppy, As the journey continues on Mars |
Some Statistics for Spirit & Oppy, As the journey continues on Mars |
Jan 4 2007, 12:36 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Some statistics as on Dec 31st 2006
Total Pictures : 170.026 Total Sols : 2110 (11.7 times more than scheduled) Pics/Sol/Rover : 81 Total distance : 16.684 meters (13.9 times more than scheduled) meter/Sol/Rover : 7.9 Cost/sol (Assuming 800 millions USD) : 379.147 USD Post/UMSF’ers/Sol/Rover : -------------------- |
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May 11 2010, 04:24 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 28-October 08 From: Boston, MA Member No.: 4469 |
I think that these numbers aren't quite right. The 12678m figure quoted by climber probably comes from this JPL update, but that number corresponds to the odometry at the end of sol 1687. That's several long drives into the journey, which began on sol 1683. The same update notes that Opportunity was already 314 meters along at that point, bringing the total odometry to 8021m as of sol 2218.
Personally I still like to think of the journey as having started from Duck Bay. My "records" (I use that term loosely) indicate that that would add another 565 meters. Estimating the last three drives at 75 meters combined, said "records" look like this as of today (sol 2238), stage by stage: CODE STAGE DISTANCE START END TOTAL ODOMETRY Start Duck Bay 11,797.84 meters Stage 0 565.11 m Duck Bay Cape Agulhas 12,362.95 meters Stage 1 1254.38 m Cape Agulhas Santorini 13,617.33 meters Stage 2 1434.11 m Santorini Resolution 15,051.44 meters Stage 3 857.49 m Resolution Kasos 15,908.93 meters Stage 4 803.53 m Kasos Absecon 16,712.46 meters Stage 5 516.17 m Absecon Block Island 17,229.16 meters Stage 6 1698.40 m Block Island Marquette 18,927.56 meters Stage 7 505.28 m Marquette Concepción 19,432.84 meters Stage 8 1238.53 m Concepción 20,671.37 meters TOTAL 8873.53 m |
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May 11 2010, 10:13 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 71 Joined: 19-January 10 From: Grimsby, N.E. Lincs, UK Member No.: 5179 |
Thanks Poolio - I'm more than happy to be corrected!
If we take Duck Bay as the starting point as you suggest, are we still looking at a total journey of 19km or do we have an update on that figure as well? Neil |
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