From Cambridge Bay to the "parking lot" |
From Cambridge Bay to the "parking lot" |
Oct 13 2010, 03:58 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
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:
QUOTE # 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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Oct 13 2010, 02:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2917 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
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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Oct 13 2010, 10:46 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Poor Scott...he's a thousand times more frustrated than any of us up here in the peanut gallery!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 14 2010, 02:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
Doh!
QUOTE 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 </wishful thinking> |
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Oct 14 2010, 04:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 237 Joined: 22-December 07 From: Alice Springs, N.T. Australia Member No.: 3989 |
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
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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Oct 14 2010, 07:11 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10121 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Oct 15 2010, 11:50 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Ah, yes, those endless... endless... endless plains...
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Oct 15 2010, 01:51 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
The OT discussion was growing several pages long so it has been moved here:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ic=6771&hl= -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Oct 15 2010, 03:11 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 507 Joined: 10-September 08 Member No.: 4338 |
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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Oct 15 2010, 03:49 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10121 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
If autonav was being used frequently and successfully, I presume many of the files could be simply deleted without downloading.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Oct 15 2010, 04:03 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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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Oct 15 2010, 06:13 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10121 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Oct 15 2010, 06:58 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 23-February 09 From: Edmonton, Alberta Member No.: 4611 |
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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Oct 15 2010, 07:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4245 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
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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Oct 15 2010, 07:16 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10121 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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. -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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