MSL "Drive, drive, drive" toward Glenelg, The scientists (mostly) get the keys - sols 38-56 |
MSL "Drive, drive, drive" toward Glenelg, The scientists (mostly) get the keys - sols 38-56 |
Sep 13 2012, 09:33 PM
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Matt Heverly tweeted earlier today that they're "on the road again," planning the seventh drive. So sol 39 will be a driving day, and it's time to start a new thread! In yesterday's press briefing, Joy Crisp said the plan was to "drive, drive, drive," though they will probably stop again before getting to Glenelg if they spot a good rock to use for the testing of drilling and sample acquisition and delivery.
As usual, keep conversation of the events and images of sols 30 through 37 in the appropriate thread. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Sep 16 2012, 03:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
Is anybody attempting to map Curie's positions on sol 39&40? Doing this by eye seems to be more difficult than with MER, since the strategy seems to be to image 360 degrees of navcam thumbnails and full resolution only in the drive direction.
Great to see three sols of back-to-back driving though -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Sep 16 2012, 04:32 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
... the strategy seems to be to image 360 degrees of navcam thumbnails and full resolution only in the drive direction. Not really. If you see a thumbnail almost sure the full-res is there too. It's just a question of downlink queue priorities. The drive-direction images take a higher one while the backwards-looking ones have low prio. |
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Sep 16 2012, 04:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
Not really. If you see a thumbnail almost sure the full-res is there too. It's just a question of downlink queue priorities. The drive-direction images take a higher one while the backwards-looking ones have low prio. I'd add that this is exactly how it's always worked with MER, except with MER we never got to see the thumbnails on the main raw images page. So this is a nice enhancement, a kind of 'preview' just like the rover team gets. |
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