Husband Hill Summit Options

[general]

Is this the summit of Husband Hill?
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/na...IHP0655R0M1.JPG

[Guest_Myran_*]

Yes to me it seems we're finally there, congrats to all involved in the MER project!

[general]

Is this the summit of Husband Hill?
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/na...IHP0655R0M1.JPG

Ooops... apparently not yet

But the road to the top seems to be wide open

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[Reckless]

It seems that Spirit Just has to stand on tippy toe now to see 360 Degrees around Gusev.

Roy F

[dilo]

I'm sorry to brake the happiness, Spirit is not again on the Summit if you look to entire Sol578 panorama...

The perfectly flat horizon induced me too to the wrong conclusion, in fact rover is on a slope of about 5deg... (not visible in the flattened Pano).
The polar projection below exhagerate the way up...


Edit: general, only now I see your self-correction and Pano!

[remcook]

that's a very nice 360 pan! dust devils in the background as well.
but maybe not as nice as the one coming up from the summit

[paxdan]

that's a very nice 360 pan! dust devils in the background as well.
but maybe not as nice as the one coming up from the summit

I'm really hoping that the summit pan they take will include some nice dustdevils. It would be fitting to capture some nice ones and have the summit pan include some evidence of the dynamic mars we now take for granted. Also hoping they include the deck sequence that captures the solar panels so dilo can do his superb overhead projections and include a self portrait. Perhaps you could combine that with dougs elevation model and give us a overhead pan projected onto the actual morphology of the hills.

i am fully expecting at some point to see a 3d model of the hils, viewable from any angle, with imagery from the rover projected onto it, and i'm thinking that a collaberative effort on this board may be able to beat the jpl folks to it.

[general]

I bet Spirit will reach the summit by the end of this month, and then enjoy a well-deserved Labor Day weekend taking in the view

[dilo]

Using the Joe Knapp's MER Stereo Parallax Calculator, I made some range measures from hilltop:

(number in the parhentesis refers to rck dimensions). It seems we are about 30m from summit...
Here also a vertical projection of terrain around Spirit (4cm/pixel, 6deg slope):

[Toma B]

Verry nice panorama dilo...
No Hi-res version for us???

[Tesheiner]

Is Spirit already at the summit as of sol 581?

Until now I was 100% sure about it. The "other summit" we see here (navcam: 2N177951055EFFADNDP0645R0M1, pancam: 2P177952739EFFADNDP2369R1M1) was below the horizon so it couldn't be higher then the current position...

But note that the images are taken from a vantage point 1.5m higher then the terrain -- the mast. And see what happens if we add a 1.5m high sort of "monolith" on the top of the other summit:

Taking this into account, that rock is some 0.78 deg above the horizon, which makes it higher then the present position.

[Tesheiner]

... and a rock at 49m and 0.78 deg above the horizon makes it only 30cm higher then the place Spirit stands now. Not too much.

[Tman]

Tes, probably you're right. That rock could be the definitively Husband summit. But now, how can Spirit it mark? She has packed in no flag?!

[dvandorn]

Spirit's RAT may be worn out, but it can still brush rocks, right? Why not leave a distinctive mark on "Summit Rock" with a pattern of brush marks?

Maybe something as simple as this (I hope this spaces out right):

O O
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Sort of a "Kilroy was here" kind of mark...

-the other Doug

[Marcel]

Try to RAT it's name and date on the "summit-rock" with it's last bits of diamond teeth left ?

I see no other option: only staying up there forever. But that's not a good idea: still a lot of work to do !