Spirit retrospective, - a few details from my current project |
Spirit retrospective, - a few details from my current project |
Jan 20 2012, 09:13 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10256 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I'm working on Spirit at the moment. I will post a few examples of things as I go.
Right now the important job is updating the contemporary route map by locating the stops on HiRISE images. The existing maps at JPL, for the early part of the mission, were plotted on MOC images with inferior resolution and lighting, so I find many locations were about 15 or 20 m out. So at every site I am making circular panoramas (examples later) for comparison with HiRISE. Here's a first example, a map of the route during the Primary Mission. I have added a few extra placenames from the MER Analyst's Notebook at PDS. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jan 21 2012, 07:27 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
How would driving to the heatshield have avoided the wheel problem?
Giving the information available at the time, sprinting to the hills was clearly the right decision to make. |
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Jan 21 2012, 02:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Giving the information available at the time, sprinting to the hills was clearly the right decision to make. Given the information we have today it was still the right decision to make. I would also venture that the experience with Spirit's wheel allowed the team to understand the malfunction and take steps to avoid the same with Opportunity on her epic trek. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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