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Goodbye Victoria, The long trek has started
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post Oct 29 2008, 08:21 AM
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Yep, they look pretty big... and just plain pretty, too...

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post Oct 29 2008, 08:49 AM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Oct 29 2008, 06:47 AM) *
I'll use this same post to say that the drive planned for sol 1693 was executed and Opportunity moved another 110m due south. Expect bigger dunes right ahead.
wheel.gif wheel.gif wheel.gif

If I get it correctly we're in restricted sols up to nov 11th or so. So we expect to drive each other day.
Anyway, it's so nice to get distance with 3 digits values smile.gif


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post Oct 29 2008, 09:51 AM
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Sol 1693 panoramas (navcam & pancam). I have the impression that this will be the traditionnal picturing set at the end of each drive smile.gif



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post Oct 29 2008, 09:56 AM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ Oct 29 2008, 08:46 AM) *
Tesheiner, I'm curious to see your updated map... smile.gif


Done. smile.gif
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post Oct 29 2008, 10:47 AM
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Obrigado!
I like too see paths converging... smile.gif

I know I shouldn't but I'm starting to doubt my powers... tongue.gif
A good alternative, following the bedrock policy, would be (contrary to my idea of following for more +-7kms SE) to turn East near the location where I lay the border between Leg 01 and 02 in the image below:
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EDITED: Tesheiner's map date has been corrected, thanks for the alert hal9000!


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post Oct 29 2008, 11:06 AM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ Oct 29 2008, 10:47 AM) *
I'm starting to doubt my powers...


Surely not! To settle matters I propose a rigorous empirical test: at the end of leg 1 the rover will clone itself and follow both your guesses. laugh.gif
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post Oct 29 2008, 01:41 PM
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Does Opportunity currently hold the top 3 longest single-sol drives?
Sol 410 = 220 meters (722 feet)
Sol1663 = 153 meters (500 feet)

in fact amazing compared to Sojourner which drove a total of 101 meters (333 feet = easier to remember) in 1997...
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post Oct 29 2008, 02:19 PM
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I bet for 222m on sol 2222, even easier Phil wink.gif


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post Oct 29 2008, 03:12 PM
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QUOTE (Ant103 @ Oct 29 2008, 04:51 AM) *
Sol 1693 panoramas (navcam & pancam). I have the impression that this will be the traditionnal picturing set at the end of each drive smile.gif



Two movie quotes come to mind;

"What a desolate place this is."

"Dune- Desert Planet- never one drop of rain on Arrakis"


I think the dunes of Mars are beautiful. When I look across that windswept landscape, I get a feeling that I have been there before. It feels like a place I have known, but there is something alien about it.


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post Oct 29 2008, 03:47 PM
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QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Oct 29 2008, 01:41 PM) *
Does Opportunity currently hold the top 3 longest single-sol drives?


Yes. I think they might be 410 ( 220m ), a couple of sols ago (about 200 ), and probably either another drive from a few days previous to that, or one of the drives shortly before 410.
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post Oct 29 2008, 04:47 PM
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QUOTE (RobertEB @ Oct 29 2008, 03:12 PM) *
"What a desolate place this is."


I don't know that one. I thought, for a moment, it was from R.F.Scott - but I'm misremembering his "Great God! This is an awful place." Another quote - sadly apocryphal - was allegedly an advert for Shackleton's Nimrod expedition. Forgive the minor re-write!

"[Robots] wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success."

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post Oct 29 2008, 05:14 PM
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It's from Star Wars -- C3PO describing Tatooine. A very apt comparison! Especially if Oppy were to find moisture farms on her journey.

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post Oct 29 2008, 11:37 PM
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Another take on the Sea.... (from Ant103's pano):


Click to enlarge.

- Cue Rod Stewart, "I am Sailing"....
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post Oct 30 2008, 03:51 AM
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Sorry...


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post Oct 30 2008, 04:30 AM
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Ewww.... it's like the Gods were starting a Mars pysanka. blink.gif
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