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Apr 15 2005, 07:09 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107 |
Oppy hasn't moved much lately and now they are looking at the front right wheel...
What are they doing? -------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
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Apr 19 2005, 01:23 PM
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one word
P H E WWW. SCOTT |
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Apr 19 2005, 01:28 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
For those who haven't seen it, Steve Squyres posted this on his new PI update at:
http://athena1.cornell.edu/news/mubss/ "Over on Opportunity, I suppose the biggest news has been the trouble with the right front steering actuator. It stopped working a few sols back, and it may have failed permanently. This isn't nearly as bad as it sounds! The rovers have many possible steering techniques, and some of them don't require the steering actuators at all. And we caught a lucky break... the wheel is pointed very close to straight forward, which makes these alternative steering techniques pretty easy. So if we've lost this actuator, it's really just an annoyance, not a problem. It's a powerful reminder, though, that these rovers aren't going to live forever. We've been pushing Opportunity very hard, and we're going to keep pushing her. " -------------------- --O'Dave
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Apr 19 2005, 07:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
QUOTE (odave @ Apr 19 2005, 08:28 AM) For those who haven't seen it, Steve Squyres posted this on his new PI update at: http://athena1.cornell.edu/news/mubss/ Just a process note, here -- the above URL isn't working at all for me. If I take the "1" out of "athena1" the URL works and takes me to Squyres' most recent update -- the URL that works for me is: http://athena.cornell.edu/news/mubss/ However, if I go back to Home in the Cornell site, without the "1" in the URL, the link to the mission updates is the old link that ends with April 2004. The new update doesn't appear accessible from the home page of the Cornell site that I can get to. (Which is really odd, considering the new update is accessible with the direct link above.) Does anyone know what's going on with the Cornell site, or why I'm not able to connect using this "new" URL with athena1 rather than athena in the address? -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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