Winter Quarters, at Low Ridge Haven |
Winter Quarters, at Low Ridge Haven |
Apr 14 2006, 02:00 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 166 Joined: 20-September 05 From: North Texas Member No.: 503 |
Since Spirit is no longer "Running for the Hills" and it appears that she will be staying at Low Ridge Haven for the next eight months or so, it seems like a good time to start a new topic.
I thought we could start with the great panorama stitched by jvandriel, and then altered by Tesheiner. We are going to become very familiar with this view in the coming months. David [attachment=5107:attachment] (286k) |
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Apr 25 2006, 04:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
Spirit will try to dig the land with its rock abrasion tool!!! The RAT is useless so it will be used for digging!
For the first time this mission, Spirit will try to look at the Martian soil at various depths, utilising the rock abrasion tool on its robotic arm as a digger. The rover will first try to determine the uppermost soil's composition, before brushing away a layer of soil – from a millimetre to a centimetre – so that the experiment can be repeated on the next layer, and so forth. This week, teams at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, US, will simulate the soil experiment with an Earth-based test rover before Spirit tackles the real soil. Around the HRL has many stones with holes. The dark grey rocks with small holes in them may have come from volcanic sources. Light, thin jagged rocks are jutting out from the sand. And on the top of a drift sits a smooth light grey rock. Additional info from newscientist Web Rodolfo P.D.Astr0, Super appealing picture only for the please visual but in the reality, it would be alike to a very good and nice yellowish sun afternoon. |
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