Mission Success Criteria Options

[dvandorn]

It's currently halfway through Sol 56. We have, to this point, accomplished the following (please correct me if I'm missing anything):

- Full Mission Success stereo color pan of the entire landing site

- Full RAC coverage of what it can view under the lander

- One TEGA run

- One WCL run

- Two OM images of soil

- Zero AFM images of soil

- Programmed observations of winds and temperatures

How far, with only 34.5 sols left in the 90-sol primary mission, does that leave us from accomplishing the Mission Success Criteria? (Capitalized so that, as Steve Squyres noted, if you fail to accomplish them you'll know that You Have Failed.)

I understand that things are working well enough that we can likely count on a good 30 sols of full mission activity past the base 90-sol mission. Even at figuring that in, we appear to be nearly halfway through Phoenix's entire useful lifetime.

Are we seriously in jeopardy of failing to achieve some of the success criteria?

-the other Doug

[climber]

Trouble is that up to date we had 2 kinds of spacecrafts at Mars :
+ the one that are wayyyyy above mission success. I mean much much above.
+ the one that totaly failed
There's nothing inbetween so we all have HIGH expectations for Phoenix.

[ToSeek]

Trouble is that up to date we had 2 kinds of spacecrafts at Mars :
+ the one that are wayyyyy above mission success. I mean much much above.
+ the one that totaly failed
There's nothing inbetween so we all have HIGH expectations for Phoenix.

That's kind of the rule for stuff in general: either it's well-made so lasts well past the warranty period, or it's junk and breaks right away.

[tedstryk]

That's kind of the rule for stuff in general: either it's well-made so lasts well past the warranty period, or it's junk and breaks right away.

Well, at least on the American side. Many of the Soviet missions that actually reached Mars were partially successful but failed to achieve many of the mission goals.