Heading south from Cape York, Opportunity's post-conjunction adventures / Sol 3291 - 3387 |
Heading south from Cape York, Opportunity's post-conjunction adventures / Sol 3291 - 3387 |
May 18 2013, 12:02 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10158 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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May 18 2013, 01:25 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10158 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
James tweeted: "Oppy sol 3310 - Took pancam images of Karratha & Corunna Downs. Then drove 95m SW along Cape York. "
Do we know yet which features these are? Phil (always hungry for feature names) -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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May 18 2013, 07:57 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
Looks like there's another drive coming up for sol 3312.
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May 18 2013, 03:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
Do we know yet which features these are? We haven't seen many images come down yet, so it's hard to be sure. Here's my estimate based on what we do have, though. This is seen from site 170/0114 (sol 3308), below "Kirkwood". I hope we'll see some more images soon, so I can find out if I was right! (And so we can have some more images.) Edit: Oops, mispelled "Corunna" in the image. Lack of coffee, etc. |
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May 18 2013, 09:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
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May 18 2013, 10:08 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4247 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Thanks, Ant. Isn't it great to see drive-direction pancams again?
Based on the drives so far, it looks like the plan may be to hug the "coast" of CY, just inland, rather than driving straight for Solander Point. |
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May 19 2013, 12:54 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Actually, I'm wondering if she will do a quick stop near Odissey to image those old tracks around it.
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May 19 2013, 09:01 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
According to the last Planetary Society MER update:
"We calculated a rapid transit... " Arvidson informed. "....This route allows for a short stop at Nobby's Head so that the rover can take some stereo images of the northern side of hill for engineering characterization of slopes, just in case we need a possible bail-out location for winter, but other than that it's a path that will take Opportunity to Solander as quickly as possible..." Illustrated in the March 1, 2013 entry here: |
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May 19 2013, 12:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Just bck to Opportunity's driving record, there's a nice little poster on vehicle driving distances (Moon and Mars) over on i09.
http://io9.com/the-records-for-the-greates...ars-a-508328297 Back to the drive south |
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May 19 2013, 03:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4247 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Illustrated in the March 1, 2013 entry here: Wow, thanks Centsworth - I wasn't aware of that site. Looks like a good source for geo maps, place names, etc.there's a nice little poster on vehicle driving distances (Moon and Mars) over on i09. That's from a full press release.
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May 19 2013, 04:16 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10158 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
This looks like a good place to add a note of caution about Lunokhod driving distances. They will have to be recalculated based on the LROC images. When the actual Lunokhod 2 tracks are compared with the original Soviet-era map, it looks to me like they landed slightly north of the expected location, drove a bit further south than they thought, then east, and finally ended up further north than they thought. Some extra distance will probably come out of a recalibration of the drives (maybe they allowed for more wheel slip than actually occurred). A new mapping effort is under way at MIIGAiK - they already did Lunokhod 1 and are working on Lunokhod 2. Maybe by LPSC next year we will have a result. Just a caution - we might break the record and then have to break it again!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf 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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May 19 2013, 04:35 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10158 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Don't just read that great site by Larry Crumpler - those images, especially the maps, can stand a considerable amount of enlargement. Lots of good stuff! Too bad there doesn't seem to be an archive of past reports like these.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf 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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May 19 2013, 04:39 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10158 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 Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf 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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May 19 2013, 05:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Did you also notice that we (I on the Spirit & Oppy Statistics) used to get 35890 for Apollo 17 rover and this is also used on the New Mexico Museum's but Nasa says 35744...and tthey can't be wrong
Phil, do you think all Moon driving distances will have to be reevaluated? Thanks -------------------- |
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May 19 2013, 05:24 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10158 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Apollo should be much better than Lunokhod because they had high resolution orbital images and lots of backup position data. I would not have expected much change for Apollo distances. I will look into the difference in those numbers.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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