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From Cambridge Bay to the "parking lot"
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post Oct 13 2010, 03:58 AM
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I notice that neither the sol 2383 rear hazcam nor the navcam images of the ground in Oppy's path have shown up at exploratorium, now there is this from marsroverdriver's twitter:
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# Oops: not enough downlink to bring us needed drive-direction imagery. Fortunately, Tam Nguyen caught it. Scrambling to reprioritize D/L.

# Oh, for the *love* of ... DSN problems killed our uplink. So no deletes from flash, so no driving until Friday. Luckily, I'm on Friday. :-)

# Sometimes it's like, whaddaya gotta *do* to drive a Mars rover around here? I mean, we can put a rover on Mars, but we can't ... uh ....
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post Oct 13 2010, 02:19 PM
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Yes it IS frustrating but, when they landed they never thought that the usuable sols/ total sols would be so good. Soujourner rate was, what, 2 out of 3?


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post Oct 13 2010, 10:46 PM
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Poor Scott...he's a thousand times more frustrated than any of us up here in the peanut gallery! tongue.gif


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post Oct 14 2010, 02:52 AM
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Doh!

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marsroverdriver: We got pretty much all the imagery and other data *except* what we need to drive. Perfect gap in the images in the drive direction. *sigh*


Maybe Oppy's having this little delay because Spirit has borrowed her good luck
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post Oct 14 2010, 04:07 PM
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Couldn't resist the challenge of another Navcam .............from Sol 2382 - 6 Oct 2010. If anyone wants to check out a higher res version go to http://picasaweb.google.com/10220631534056...939131567821730

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Love the shadows of the Pancam. (For Astro0 et al - looks a bit like Ned Kelly hit Mars! I knew we got there first!!??)
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post Oct 14 2010, 07:11 PM
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When the shadow looks like this, then it's time to start worrying!

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post Oct 15 2010, 11:50 AM
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Ah, yes, those endless... endless... endless plains...

REALLY looking forward to seeing Santa Maria smile.gif


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post Oct 15 2010, 01:51 PM
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The OT discussion was growing several pages long so it has been moved here:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ic=6771&hl=


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post Oct 15 2010, 03:11 PM
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If the autonav technique requires periodic delays to download and clear flash memory, then maybe it is not worth it; regular blind drives might do better. It may be like the hare versus the tortoise scenario... (Sorry, I can't resist a little backseat driving!)
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post Oct 15 2010, 03:49 PM
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If autonav was being used frequently and successfully, I presume many of the files could be simply deleted without downloading.

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post Oct 15 2010, 04:03 PM
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QUOTE (marsophile @ Oct 15 2010, 07:11 AM) *
If the autonav technique requires periodic delays to download and clear flash memory, then maybe it is not worth it; regular blind drives might do better. It may be like the hare versus the tortoise scenario... (Sorry, I can't resist a little backseat driving!)


You're basically oversimplifying the variety and combination of how driving is done. Most drives are combinations of multiple types of drive.

I can't remember the last time we had to stand down for a few days because of full flash, can you?

And remember, applying autonav means we can drive quite a LOT further per day, taking MONTHS off the arrival date.

And lest we forget, blind drives can have their own problems. coughpurgatoryahem etc etc.
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post Oct 15 2010, 06:13 PM
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Our intrepid rover has been pointing its pancam at its planned peregrinations, so here is a view of the road ahead with a 10x vertical stretch. This can be compared with one I did like this two weeks ago, which extends this to the left. The stretch shows how the view into the valley ahead of us is really beginning to open up.

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post Oct 15 2010, 06:58 PM
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somewhat ominous tweet from Scott for those who don't twitter

marsroverdriver Scott Maxwell
Bad: dust storm headed our way. Good: it hasn't hit us yet, so we're driving anyway. Delaying drive uplink so we can wait & see on storm.
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post Oct 15 2010, 07:02 PM
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Thanks for posting that, Phil. Just to clarify, your new stretch is from sol 2374 (actually a sol earlier than your stretch of two weeks ago). We've driven quite a bit since then, so hopefully we'll see a new horizon pan soon that'll show even more.
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post Oct 15 2010, 07:16 PM
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Right, I never pay any attention to actual dates! But it was clear that this matched the previous one quite closely, so I saw it wasn't very different in time.

Phil

EDIT - in fact, here is a combination of the two views.

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