Sol 800 coming up |
Sol 800 coming up |
Apr 1 2006, 08:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
Yep, another nice round number to celebrate. 'Course, this one is slightly bittersweet now that Spirit has lost some mobility. But I remain optimistic that as Spirit crawls slowly through the dust towards McCool Hill, a tiny metallic chip will get lodged somewhere in the inner workings of the wheel and repair the open connection. We can but hope.
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Apr 1 2006, 08:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Frankly, I am a little bit worried by Spirit mobility/energy issues, so I do not want to celebrate Sol800 unless she is in a safer position...
-------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Apr 3 2006, 07:32 AM
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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 |
You're right, I do have a strange mood too.
Anyway, don't forget the following. On April 13th three new milestones will be achieved : 1-Spirit will have lived 9 times her schedulled live. 2-Cost per SOL for any one of the Rovers will go under 500.000 USD*** 3-We've got just over 150.000 pictures. Here you can see some data I collected from October 2004 when we get to 50.000 pics. Pics N° Date Day diff Pic/Sol 50.000 12/10/04 543 92 75.000 28/03/05 167 75 100.000 19/07/05 113 111 125.000 27/10/05 100 125 150 000 01/04/06 156 80 *** Steve Squyres once wrote that, at the bigining of the operations , the big issue was trying not to screw up any SOL since cost per sol was 4 million USD! Now, if you consider the mission cost at 800 Millions USD (I know, it has rosen since, but well, it will just push back the real date by a few tens of Sols) a simple calculation give you 800M/1600Sols = 0.5 M/Sol. Does any one have a recent figure of the REAL total cost of the mission by now ? -------------------- |
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