Cape York, Landfall! |
Cape York, Landfall! |
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 ![]() |
It’s finally time for a new thread. THE thread, I would say.
It is now sol 2681 and after virtually one thousand sols, beginning on 1683 when Opportunity left Victoria for good, and also after more than 21km driving on these flat fields, this little rover and obviously the brave mission’s people behind, made landfall on Cape York. A bunch of pictures and thumbnails are already on the ground (should be public in an hour or so) and the very limited data we can gather for the time being are just enough to guess a drive of around 60m. I’ve prepared a new picture to use as a map to follow this part of the mission and which I will update, as usual, on the route map thread once more data are available. Here’s a copy of it. Use this thread for comments, discussions, mosaics, images result of activities at / after sol 2681 and keep using the Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point' thread for posts related with stuff from before sol 2681. |
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![]() The Poet Dude ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 ![]() |
I can't really be sure from this distance, but isn't that Bob Zubrin? Hmmm. Looks a bit too cheerful... ![]() I really hope Oppy tootles around the other side of Odyssey and takes a closer look at this bright rock... -------------------- |
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Junior Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: 17-July 11 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 6066 ![]() |
I'm sure she will... and there's another less accessible white one in the crater.... We should exploring that ejecta field all next week and choosing a target to IDD, pending tactical decisions. On that note, the drive on 2683 seemed to go shorter than I remember the RPs sequencing. I remember that we should have been perched about 5 meters from the southern rim of Odyssey. Clearly, we're not. I wonder why... |
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 ![]() |
On that note, the drive on 2683 seemed to go shorter than I remember the RPs sequencing. I remember that we should have been perched about 5 meters from the southern rim of Odyssey. Clearly, we're not. I wonder why... For whatever reason, the drive has "faulted". The post-drive hazcams (fwd, rear) correspond to these sequences. 02683::p1254::02::2::0::0::2::0::4::front_haz_fault_pri15_4bpp 02683::p1354::01::2::0::0::2::0::4::rear_haz_fault_pri15_4bpp |
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Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 184 Joined: 2-March 06 Member No.: 692 ![]() |
For whatever reason, the drive has "faulted". The post-drive hazcams (fwd, rear) correspond to these sequences. 02683::p1254::02::2::0::0::2::0::4::front_haz_fault_pri15_4bpp 02683::p1354::01::2::0::0::2::0::4::rear_haz_fault_pri15_4bpp Hopefully the fault was due to some benign thing like tilt or time out. I've got to admit I haven't looked at a hazcam for a while and boy do they look different now with all those thin shards in the soil! |
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