To the Cape! (part 2), For real this time! |
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To the Cape! (part 2), For real this time! |
 Jul 1 2008, 06:32 AM
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Senior Member  Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253  |
Images are being downlinked everyday but there might be a problem in the pipe between JPL and the public sites.
Not the first neither the last time it will happen. |
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Jul 1 2008, 06:50 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Both Canberra and the Madrid DSN stations have MER1 Opportunity tracking passes scheduled this week.
We have one 65 minute pass happening just a few hours from now between 8.55-10.00 UTC. It's an uplink, with a radio science downlink ("beep"). I agree with Tesheiner...not an unusual matter for there to be no updates over the 'weekend'. Be patient, I'm sure our girl is OK. Astro0 |
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Jul 1 2008, 07:24 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
Yes, don't worry, the data is arriving in the tracking database as normal. As Tesheiner says, just a problem with the system that gets the images out to us, it's happened many times before. Jim needs to give something a kick.
 To put your mind at ease here is a stamp from yestersol (1576) off the tracking site.  James -------------------- |
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Jul 1 2008, 08:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Just found this entry on an interview to S.S. by space.com. Nothing really new but it's good to know they are still sticking to the plan of touching the wall.
QUOTE Once all that is done, the robot will be commanded to try and get even closer to the cliff — both to improve the resolution of images taken and to get the instruments on the rover's robotic arm onto bedrock.
"Whether we'll be able to accomplish this or not, though, we don't know," Squyres added. "The terrain here is very steep, and we obviously don't want to venture so close to the cliff that we're in its shadow. So we'll see." |
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Jul 1 2008, 04:21 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Jun 29 2008, 10:58 PM)  My initial, and continuing, impression of the Anatolia Features is that they are solution cavities along joints (or rather, a joint system intermittently widened by solution cavities). That is, until more evidence comes our way...  If the joints were created or modified by solution it seem reasonable to hope that there might be evidence of deposits at the rock-atmosphere interface. Who knows? Maybe some of the rocks that previously lined the cracks in Victoria crater and then tumbled out will have some type of deposit visible? I think it would be really cool to stick Oppy's arm deep into one of the accessible cracks and get an APXS and Mossbauer measurement to compare with the "normal" exposed cliff face. That might furnish a hint of underground solution transport since the crack formed. "Put your hand in the box...." -Mike -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Jul 2 2008, 11:30 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
There's a burp in the imagery pipeline somewhere obviously - the people that need to know, now know.
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Jul 2 2008, 11:54 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 524 Joined: 24-November 04 From: Heraklion, GR. Member No.: 112 |
QUOTE (Juramike @ Jul 1 2008, 07:21 PM) "Put your hand in the box...." -Mike I gather we 'll have an APXS of spice soon ...
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Jul 3 2008, 03:26 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 166 Joined: 20-September 05 From: North Texas Member No.: 503 |
QUOTE (TheChemist @ Jul 3 2008, 12:54 AM) I gather we 'll have an APXS of spice soon ... At the other end of the planet, I sure hope Phoenix's scoop isn't mistaken for a thumper. 
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Jul 3 2008, 06:43 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 3 2008, 01:30 AM) There's a burp in the imagery pipeline somewhere obviously - the people that need to know, now know. I just hope it's solved soon, otherwise we'll probably be without the daily MER "fix" until after the US holidays. On a different topic, I just checked the planned sequences to find that Opportunity is scheduled to move on sol 1582; that will be this sunday. To the Cape! 
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Jul 6 2008, 09:52 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 568 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Silesia Member No.: 299 |
Exploratorium is Back Up. Woo hoo!!
-------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Jul 6 2008, 10:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
peter59 you just beat me to it. I was starting to think of the old "If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it..." as applied to spacecraft: Does a spacecraft exist if UMSFers don't see the relayed pictures? Spirit and Opportunity were fading like the Cheshire Cat--not gone, but just starting to fade.
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Jul 6 2008, 10:39 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
The blockage is free, but there;s a backlog we're missing. Hopefully it will filter thru.
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Jul 6 2008, 11:15 PM
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Really good to see fresh pics again. It looks like tosol's (1582) drive was a short drive away from Verde:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...B2P1213L0M1.JPG |
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Jul 7 2008, 10:03 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
> The blockage is free, but there;s a backlog we're missing. Hopefully it will filter thru.
I hope so. There're a lot of "juicy" pictures on this missing batch: Half of the latest mosaic and the whole superres shots. |
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Jul 7 2008, 03:50 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 568 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Silesia Member No.: 299 |
Time for harvest !!!!
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...cam/2008-07-07/ -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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