Dust Storm- Opportunity EOM, the end of the beginning of a new era in robotic spaceflight |
Dust Storm- Opportunity EOM, the end of the beginning of a new era in robotic spaceflight |
Jun 5 2018, 03:05 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Expect a quiet few sols - http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~lemmon/mars-tau-b.html
SOL TAU 5097 0.65 5098 0.64 5099 0.67 5100 0.64 5101 0.60 5102 0.60 5103 0.61 5104 1.55 5105 **** 5106 2.12 |
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Jun 14 2018, 04:33 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2106 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
The main thought I keeping coming back to is that Oppy has been out of contact for much longer stretches of time during conjunctions (though obviously this is a very different circumstance in other respects!) We know the rover won't suffer some cold-related issue as Spirit did; it's just a matter of crossing our fingers and waiting it out...
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Jun 14 2018, 03:11 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2542 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
The main thought I keeping coming back to is that Oppy has been out of contact for much longer stretches of time during conjunctions... During conjunction the rover has still been powered, of course. The most worrisome thing about this is whether there's some issue associated with losing the mission clock (go back through all the Spirit status reports after loss of comm for lots of discussion about various permutations there). We can assume that Spirit just got too cold, but there's no proof of that I'm aware of. And then there's the possibility that the panels will be so dusty after the storm clears that they won't produce a useful amount of power (although I think that's probably unlikely.) -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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