Extricating Spirit, Digging out from Troy |
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Extricating Spirit, Digging out from Troy |
 Jan 8 2010, 01:01 PM
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That would equate to a decrease in northerly tilt - so one would hope it's further extraction rather than putting out the winter deck-chair.
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Jan 8 2010, 05:48 PM
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I think I can see what the rationale was for turning the RF wheel sideways. It is easier to push that non-rotating wheel forward now, because the treads are pointed in the direction of motion, thus producing less resistance.
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Jan 8 2010, 08:47 PM
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 Bloggette par Excellence Group: Admin Posts: 3968 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Sorry to everyone here for my confusion and the resultant distress among readers. As Scott confirmed, they're still in extrication mode. http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002300/
Here's a direct link to a Quicktime animation I put together covering the full 2 months of extrication efforts to date. -------------------- |
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Jan 8 2010, 09:56 PM
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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 9 2010, 06:17 AM)  distress among readers. Just to say it again Emily, I find your blog very informative, pitched at an accessible level without being simplistic and really enjoy catching up with it  ----------- but being a confirmed optimist I hadn't quite got round to believing you anyway so I was never distressed!!!! IMO everyone really values you around here. |
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Jan 8 2010, 11:39 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Toronto, Canada Member No.: 529 |
here here!
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Jan 9 2010, 08:51 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186 |
QUOTE (briv1016 @ Jan 5 2010, 08:58 AM) P.S. The clock on the MER website seems to be off due to the New Year. The "new" times could roughly match normal Mars Local Mean Solar Time (LMST) now. But then it seems they got wrongly attached among each other. -------------------- |
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Jan 9 2010, 01:24 PM
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There's an interesting news report here with SS saying a few words on Spirit's current situation and future.
Read the report but watch the video. |
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Jan 9 2010, 02:23 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 567 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
QUOTE (briv1016 @ Jan 5 2010, 02:58 AM) P.S. The clock on the MER website seems to be off due to the New Year. This has happened every year of the mission. Seems who ever wrote the script thought it would be a one year mission. Rather than write a new script that would go for 10 or 100  years, they have fudged it to work just for the current year--each year (change an offset constant)  . Usually takes several weeks into the year for someone to remember or be reminded of the problem.
-------------------- Floyd
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Jan 9 2010, 05:01 PM
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I think coach is just trying to get his team fired up to come out in the 4th quarter, rally from a 30 point deficit and pull the game out on the final play.
Sports analogies work for all aspects of life, even Mars exploration.  Brian |
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Jan 10 2010, 03:47 AM
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Looks like another left-right manoeuve from the RF wheel.
Attached thumbnail(s)
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Jan 10 2010, 05:18 PM
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I'm not seeing the same thing (I think the RF wheel didn't turn). But it does look to me like she moved forward a tiny bit on sol 2140. Interesting.
Edit: On closer inspection, maybe she didn't move forward so much as pivot right a bit. The RR wheel didn't seem to move at all. |
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Jan 10 2010, 07:10 PM
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QUOTE (mhoward @ Jan 10 2010, 11:18 AM) I'm not seeing the same thing (I think the RF wheel didn't turn). I meant LF wheel. I'm not capable of distinguishing left from right without taking a few minutes to think about it.-------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Jan 11 2010, 04:02 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 220 Joined: 22-December 07 From: Alice Springs, N.T. Australia Member No.: 3989 |
MIs from Sol 2140 (Sun Jan 10 2010) just down. Quick lunch time stitch, contrast etc and lightly applied false colour to bring out as much detail as poss. I'm still an optimist but only by a few cms now!
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Jan 11 2010, 04:36 AM
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QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jan 10 2010, 01:10 PM) I meant LF wheel. I'm not capable of distinguishing left from right without taking a few minutes to think about it. It's on your left, No, your other left. |
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Jan 11 2010, 07:01 AM
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If the timecode on the FH(right) files are right, then it appears that on Sol2140 Spirit moved back then forwards and perhaps a little bit up(?)
Also a rock seems to appear near the LF wheel.
The RH images seem to show some forward and 'up' motion.
Could all be an illusion of course 
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