Spirit Route Map, Small and Large Scales |
Spirit Route Map, Small and Large Scales |
Feb 17 2004, 01:07 AM
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Mar 29 2005, 09:06 PM
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No - we're still a long way from the summit - it's a common optical illusion that the summit is closer than you think> There's a good half km to the summit from here
If you look at Alans map two posts up - we're about where the 1 of 410 is written Doug |
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Mar 31 2005, 05:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
I compared two panoramas taken one week apart with NavCam toward East (should be Tennessee valley and hills behind):
I found huge differences (see marks), suggesting strong advance in this direction... can someone give updated position Map? Thanks! Marco -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Apr 6 2005, 01:12 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Apr 6 2005, 02:57 PM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ Apr 6 2005, 01:12 PM) YES.. |
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Apr 6 2005, 03:14 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Perfect...
But Spirit is headed in opposite direction of the visible area, it is en route to summit 02 or even pass it and start descending towards the previous Lookout Point: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/ustrax/uapathb.jpg -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Apr 7 2005, 01:31 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Apr 8 2005, 05:14 PM
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It seems we are almost on the summit...
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...0P0894R0M1.HTML -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Apr 8 2005, 06:49 PM
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QUOTE (dilo @ Apr 8 2005, 05:14 PM) It seems we are almost on the summit... http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...0P0894R0M1.HTML The summit is still some way away. You'd have been useless on EVA with Apollo 14 Doug |
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Apr 8 2005, 08:09 PM
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According to the latest post by ObsessedWithWorlds in the Directors Update forum:
"On Spirit it’s sol 448 and she’s sitting about 300 meters below the summit of Husband Hill." I wonder if the true summit is seen on the thin strip of distant ridge just visable over the left shoulder of the "summit" in the previous image. |
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Apr 9 2005, 05:35 AM
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OK, I admit... I was too optimistic! I was based on the apparent alignment of the "summit" with distant hills, but looking also other images, is claer that real horizon (extreme right of following mosaic) still well below this summit, so a big way ahead!
Dough, when you talk about "EVA with Apollo 14" are you referring to a particular episode? I missed it... -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Apr 9 2005, 07:48 AM
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QUOTE (dilo @ Apr 9 2005, 12:35 AM) Dough, when you talk about "EVA with Apollo 14" are you referring to a particular episode? I missed it... I'm not Doug, but, um... I *am* Doug (the other one), and I can answer your question... On Apollo 14 (as on most of the other moon landings), the lack of atmosphere made distant objects look closer than they really were to the moonwalking astronauts. Shepard and Mitchell mis-estimated their position almost continually while trying to reach the rim of Cone Crater, which lies upon the summit of Cone Ridge. In the end, they had to walk a good 40 minutes longer than they thought they would have to just to get there, and they were all of 40 meters away from the rim and couldn't see it. So they sampled boulders 40 meters from the rim, and headed back -- all the while having no clue whatsoever where they had actually gone and how close they had actually come to their goal. I think Doug was just saying that your sense of distance seems about on par with Shepard and Mitchell's... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Apr 9 2005, 10:27 AM
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Apr 9 2005, 07:48 AM) QUOTE (dilo @ Apr 9 2005, 12:35 AM) Dough, when you talk about "EVA with Apollo 14" are you referring to a particular episode? I missed it... I'm not Doug, but, um... I *am* Doug (the other one), and I can answer your question... On Apollo 14 (as on most of the other moon landings), the lack of atmosphere made distant objects look closer than they really were to the moonwalking astronauts. Shepard and Mitchell mis-estimated their position almost continually while trying to reach the rim of Cone Crater, which lies upon the summit of Cone Ridge. In the end, they had to walk a good 40 minutes longer than they thought they would have to just to get there, and they were all of 40 meters away from the rim and couldn't see it. So they sampled boulders 40 meters from the rim, and headed back -- all the while having no clue whatsoever where they had actually gone and how close they had actually come to their goal. I think Doug was just saying that your sense of distance seems about on par with Shepard and Mitchell's... -the other Doug Thanks, I didn't know this interesting episode (I was 7 years old! ). Exactly, when they realized that they were only 40m from the rim? -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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