Opportunity Route Map |
Opportunity Route Map |
Feb 11 2005, 08:11 AM
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The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
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Aug 14 2006, 06:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 656 Joined: 20-April 05 From: League City, Texas Member No.: 285 |
Worst case, we ought to be able to triangulate off of the Twin Peaks and Hawking Rock throughout much of the route. Later there should be ejecta blocks from Epsilon that will be helpful, and I'd expect some Vicky features as well.
In fact, if I were driving, the route I would choose would drive directly to Hawking, then skirt Epsilon and Zeta (quite possibly driving onto one rim or the other to take a higher perspective view towards Victoria), followed by the final drive up to Vicky's rim. This simplifies the heck out of the navigation, plus collects science on the only targets of interest along the way. Of course, the rover drivers have surprised me before |
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Aug 17 2006, 12:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Worst case, we ought to be able to triangulate off of the Twin Peaks and Hawking Rock throughout much of the route. Later there should be ejecta blocks from Epsilon that will be helpful, and I'd expect some Vicky features as well. I was thinking on a similar approach using Delta and Epsilon as references; I think more the features better the triangulation. But I would use this method as a way to periodically adjust the route. I think for most of the way on this last part of the route I'll use the rover's position data from the pancam data tracking web to plot the path and from time to time (e.g. each 200m) do a triangulation to see if such path needs to be corrected. |
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