Endeavour Drive - Drivability analysis |
Endeavour Drive - Drivability analysis |
Sep 19 2008, 08:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
That was quite a show; an all-star panel plus the full hour on Mars.
Steve did say that they wouldn't even attempt the trip without HiRISE, and they'd be shooting for 100m/day. -------------------- --O'Dave
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Sep 19 2008, 08:07 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Just got word from SS - the name Endeavour is unofficial at this stage.
QUOTE This crater is large and very distant, and it's questionable whether or not we'll ever get there. So I don't really feel that we have "earned" the right to name it, at least not now. We are going to suggest the name Endeavour to the International Astronomical Union, because it both keeps with our current theme for naming craters at Meridiani, and it is consistent with IAU standards for naming martian craters -- Endeavour is also the name of a town in Saskatchewan. Anyway, until the IAU gives us their blessing for this one, it's important to treat the name as informal and provisional. |
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Sep 19 2008, 08:08 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
I hate to spoil the party, but (as the saying goes) has anyone else noticed the elephant in the room?
QUOTE ...the rover experienced a spike in the electrical current to the motor for its left front wheel, an event ominously similar to what Spirit experienced just before it lost the use of its right front wheel for good back in March 2006... Not surprisingly, the team decided without much debate that it was time for Opportunity to rove on and out of Victoria. "We want to get out of the crater as quickly as possible," Callas said Mars Exploration Rovers Update July 31st -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Sep 19 2008, 08:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1075 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Québec, Canada Member No.: 3908 |
According to this old press release, the funding for the fifth mission extension of the MER rovers carries them "possibly through 2009". If Opportunity is still alive then, let's hope that the funding will follow for another extension.
12 km at 100m/day is only 4 months, though |
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Sep 19 2008, 08:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 109 Joined: 20-January 07 From: Milano, ITALY Member No.: 1633 |
This is a marsathon.
Paolo Amoroso -------------------- Avventure Planetarie - Blog sulla comunicazione e divulgazione scientifica
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Sep 19 2008, 08:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 202 Joined: 9-September 08 Member No.: 4334 |
WOW. This is incredible news. I wonder if Oppy can really make 100m/day reliably?
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Sep 19 2008, 08:28 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Every day? No.
But back in the day - James Caird to just before Purgatory was getting on for 1.5km in 30 days. Doug |
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Sep 19 2008, 08:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Unbelievable! Incredible! Wonderful!
Now, if we don't have news about Rui/Ustrax in the next hours/days I will be very worried. Such news might be too much for his heart. |
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Sep 19 2008, 08:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 754 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 1700 |
This Big Crater fan says Yahoooo!!
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Sep 19 2008, 08:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 109 Joined: 20-January 07 From: Milano, ITALY Member No.: 1633 |
This would be the largest crater on another world ever visited so close at ground level, right?
Paolo Amoroso -------------------- Avventure Planetarie - Blog sulla comunicazione e divulgazione scientifica
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Sep 19 2008, 08:56 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1075 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Québec, Canada Member No.: 3908 |
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Sep 19 2008, 09:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4256 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
And we can't forget Gusev crater!
A new adventure! I can't wait to start the new road trip! |
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Sep 19 2008, 09:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
Don't forget Gusev.
So passes the torch...from Victoria to Endeavour... From Magellan to Cook...from Portugal to Yorkshire...awesome! No one can say our Mighty PIs lack ambition or audacity. Let it be! Southward the wagons! -------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Sep 19 2008, 09:12 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
I am experiencing so many different amazing feelings...so many...
Spirit and Opportunity drive me to tears... Are you guys aware of the magnificency of this mission? Yes you are... Besides the fantastic technical achievement, the rovers seem to be part of a tale, of a story that previously written wouldn't sound so epic! THEY are legend... And the people making it happen...wow...you make us believe that EVERYTHING is possible. Opportunity, dear Opportunity...take us to Endeavour...make of this words your fuel! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Sep 19 2008, 09:18 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Rui, do you not approve?
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