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Mar 17 2005, 03:18 PM
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Mar 17 2005, 04:35 PM
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Mar 17 2005, 05:57 PM
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Endurance is just a small bump on the horizon now:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...TAP1607R0M1.JPG |
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Mar 18 2005, 12:36 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 307 Joined: 16-March 05 Member No.: 198 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 16 2005, 11:08 PM) Well - Opportunity has done 390 metres in one 3 day period. Given that allowing for stop-offs and days of downlinking autonav data - I think it's fair to say that - flat out with no interuptions - it could do that once every week - so 1km is a 1 month program Doug 390 metres. I guess that explains a page in the latest month-in-review (February) on JPL's MER site, which is boasting that "Opportunity shattered driving records in February, moving nearly a quarter mile (390 feet) in three sols!." I guess they meant "yards". 390 feet is, of course, a long way short of a quarter of a mile. |
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Mar 18 2005, 02:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 111 Joined: 14-March 05 From: Vastitas Borealis Member No.: 193 |
This is really quite an apology for a stereo pair, since for my lack of decent software I used indecent instead. It's a cross-technique stereo of the western rim of Victoria. Sources: Sunspots's composition of Victoria & Endurance (for the right eye) and this http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/r10_r15/im...5/R1500822.html
(left eye). It's of modest quality, but I think it's really 3-D. Undoubtly anyone here can make better versions with your sophisticated programs. (I'm having some difficulty getting the image attached - if it doesn't appear please tell me how to do it) |
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Mar 18 2005, 03:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 180 Joined: 31-January 05 From: Brittany (France) Member No.: 164 |
Marswiggle: thanks, i think it's really 3D!
-------------------- Erwann |
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Mar 18 2005, 06:58 PM
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The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
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Mar 18 2005, 07:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107 |
183 m!!!
New record... Again When will Oppy leapfrog Spirits total drive distance? Can't be far from now -------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
- Steven Squyres |
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Mar 19 2005, 12:49 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 111 Joined: 14-March 05 From: Vastitas Borealis Member No.: 193 |
QUOTE (erwan @ Mar 18 2005, 03:07 PM) Marswiggle: thanks, i think it's really 3D! I would be very grateful if someone friendly made a 3D-image of the whole overlapping swath of those originals. (I won't, too tedious with my elementary methods.) It would include the whole west flank of Victoria and portions of the etched terrain to the north as well. A preliminary study of the area suggests to me that the landscape may be rather curious. Very unofficial results: 1) the radial light-dark pattern of the west flank of Vic consists of gently rolling bulges and troughs where the light coincides roughly with the bulges and the dark with troughs - this is revealed also by gullies on the slopes of the bulges, esp. in the NW (See: http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/r10_r15/im...5/R1500822.html ) 2) the flank is markedly elevated from the etched terrain at least in NW corner 3) the etched terrain is quite flat and full of N-S dunes in the vicinity 4) the bright edgelines of the rim of Vic are mainly precipices sloping to the inside of the crater below the smoother greyish rim, being mostly steep, partly gentler 5) the westernmost, somewhat angular-shaped reach of the rim is relatively low elevated and gentle-sloping and in my opinion makes a potential ingress/egress point for Oppy, also leading to potential exposures of lower stratigraphic units along the western portion of Vic. Warning: this is NOT an official science news release but only some dilettantish guessing about something there. I would only be obliged if I became disproven (perhaps not so in the case of total turn-down). |
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Mar 20 2005, 11:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 111 Joined: 14-March 05 From: Vastitas Borealis Member No.: 193 |
Well, I made the Victoria west flank 3D after all, so you can see what I mean. But I must admit I'm quite baffled with this image now. Are those landforms true or could there be something wrong with the original images? The 'waves' of the surface are almost too systematically west to east orientated. But still the crater floor is clearly below the surface of the flank.
It's a cross-technique stereo, as I call it - the left image for the right eye and so on. |
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Mar 22 2005, 09:46 PM
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It's getting exciting. Time for a route map update. Does anyone have one? And, how do you guys know how afr we've gone at a given time. It isn't on the JPL site.
For example, when we got so close to burns cliff, you'd think that NASA would be showing everyone. But, I just learned today we got so close. |
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Mar 23 2005, 04:28 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107 |
Driving again today. Anyone dare to say how far we have gone in the past few days?
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...23P1315L0M1.JPG -------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
- Steven Squyres |
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Mar 23 2005, 04:33 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Looks like we're getting quite close to the V-twins now..
They are almost line asturn in the first image http://qt.exploratorium.edu:16080/mars/opp...23P2392L2M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu:16080/mars/opp...23P2392L2M1.JPG Odd filter choice for end-of-drive imaging, usually it's L7+R1 3 x 1 in the drive direction. things look particularly exciting in the first image looking toward Albert Doug |
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Mar 23 2005, 10:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
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Mar 23 2005, 11:56 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107 |
So arrival at Viking & Voyager tommorov by the looks of it?
That thing is really moving -------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
- Steven Squyres |
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