Pathfinder site, for comparison with HIRISE |
Pathfinder site, for comparison with HIRISE |
Dec 10 2006, 11:47 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Regarding the final position of Sojourner. The rover was designed to circle the lander if communications were broken with the lander. No - that's what I thought, but actually - it was due to go back to the lander, but at the same time it had a keep-out zone at the lander. It would have kept trying to get closer, whilst nudging the keepout zone...and probably turned right and circled the lander not by design, simply as a symptom of two fighting commands..get close and keep out. However - eventually, the rovers knowledge of its own location would drift and it could have gone basically anywhere. The lander had no commands to send to the rover, and I think the lack of communication from the lander was probably a lander failure, not just a comms failure. But to be honest, who knows. Personally, I give the rover a 50% chance of still being at Chimp, a 25% chance of being near the rear rover egress aid, and a 25% chance of having gone rogue and gone crazy Doug |
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Dec 11 2006, 12:02 AM
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awwww poor thing lol. Hopefully we'll find out soon.
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Dec 11 2006, 11:32 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
...a 25% chance of being near the rear rover egress aid... I'll go for this 25%... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Dec 11 2006, 04:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: 2-March 04 From: Central California Member No.: 45 |
My money is on the chipmunks having secured the sojourner...Warning - this link leads to the twilight zone
-------------------- Eric P / MizarKey
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Dec 11 2006, 08:17 PM
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Dec 11 2006, 08:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Anyone want to start a UMSF pool on this? We could slice up the landing site into grids and take predictions. I'll take the far rim on sol 902. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Dec 11 2006, 08:30 PM
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Anyone want to start a UMSF pool on this? We could slice up the landing site into grids and take predictions. Okay, looks like Doug got the ball rolling |
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Jan 10 2007, 08:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
Pathfinder Overhead shot is up on the HIRISE site
http://hirise-test.lpl.arizona.edu/images/...MPF_parts_2.jpg cheers! -------------------- CLA CLL
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Jan 11 2007, 04:42 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Jan 11 2007, 08:50 PM
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Jan 11 2007, 10:05 PM
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Member Group: Senior Member Posts: 136 Joined: 8-August 06 Member No.: 1022 |
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Jan 11 2007, 11:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
MSSS had the MPF located accurately in their January 2000 captioned release. Viking 1 is about 50 meters southwest of the actual location. And looking at your post here I see that you were EXACTLY right. Well done Tim. Overlay of Tims position 'Mars Pathfinder' label on the MOC (plus Phil's annotations) and the Hirise with the 'MPF' label. James -------------------- |
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Jan 11 2007, 11:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
Has anybody downloaded that full res .jp2 image of Pathfinder site?
Before this (really unnecessary) site update at least see how big is that file...now for some reason that information is not available... Could somebody please post a crop of those "twin peaks" in full resolution? -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Jan 11 2007, 11:37 PM
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Why don't the solar panels show up at all? Too much dust?
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Jan 11 2007, 11:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
See the old style page http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/PSP_001890_1995 it's 849Mb.
For Twin Peaks see Doug's post above (39) James -------------------- |
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