MastCam drive movie Sol 504 - 508:

click on the thumbnail starts the animation.
(25m Sol 504-506 - 10m Sol 506-508)

Cheers, Udo

MastCam drive animation Sols 504 / 506 with 25 m travelled between the two images:


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My color version of Opportunity's Selfie of Sol 3538:

Click here for a larger version

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.gif from both Sol 387 right MastCam Images (click to enlarge):



and the details:



the object seems to blink somehow ...

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Artefact or something real ?
Sol 3314, local time between 02:03 and 02:21 pm. 12 images with 1 min separation between the single images.

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Aeolis Mons in ChemCam mirror - weird !


Klick here for enlargement

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I've spent some more looks on the subject - and yes, you are competely right ! The marks are not caused by the ChemCam. The support posts made it.

Cheers, Udo

My version of Sol174 first drill MAHLI zoom:

Klick for larger .gif movie

Corresponding MAHLI zoom of Sol 176 second drill:

Klick for larger .gif movie

Note the hexagonal ChemCam laser marks in the upper left edge of the enlarged first image of each sequence ...

Activities between Sols 160 and 169:


Klick for full version

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ADMIN: Moved to this thread. Note that a parts of the internet has been shaky since 'Sandy' and intermittent issues and website re-routing is being experienced worldwide.



Sorry, I wasn't aware of the wrong thread.
Since a couple of days the connection to qt.exploratorium.edu isn't reliable from Germany, maybe from Europe. Lot's of packet misses during an active session, see the pings from my side:

Ping wird ausgeführt für qt.exploratorium.edu [207.7.144.15] mit 32 Bytes Daten:
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Antwort von 207.7.144.15: Bytes=32 Zeit=266ms TTL=53
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Antwort von 207.7.144.15: Bytes=32 Zeit=272ms TTL=53
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This happens only for the exploratorium website !
For the site is hosted in San Francisco it can't be an effect of storm Sandy. Is this probably a more general problem ?

Regards, Udo


Update: My packets are routed through White Plains (New York) ! Therfore it might be a result of the probems they have in New York after Sandy ...

What happened with the Exploratorium site ? No MER update since a couple of days. Does anybody have more infos ?

Regards, Udo

My take of the Sol 64 video about the 1st probe's sample release of the CHIMRA:


16MB enlarged version
5MB enlarged version

The animated gif consists of the first 130 images of the 255 image sequence until the sample release which is shown in time lapse.
Earthlike colours and displayed with 10 fps.

Enjoy, Udo

It's astonishing for me how fast the data are accessible on earth. It's now 4:40 pm for Curiosity on Mars and the sol 60 images are on earth since a couple of (earth) hours now.
When exactly happens the afternoon Odyssey pass at the landing area ?

Awesome !

Cheers, Udo

Lots of MAHLI activities on sol 60:


enlarged animation

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Animation of arm movement between 1 pm and 3 pm local time:


click to enlarge

the animation begins with the APXS measurement at 1 pm. The instrument changes to MAHLI followed by undisturbed and wheel disturbed soil region images respectively.

Undisturbed soil image:



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... and from the MastCam:


click to enlarge the animation

Udo

Wheel digging at rocknest on Sol 57:


click here to enlarge the animation

seen from the HazCam

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Here's my corresponding colour image:



The drill result looks pretty different in colour than the undisturbed surface.

Cheers, Udo

CO2 won't be a liquid at normal conditions due to the 5.1 bar triple point. This is the reason why dry ice sublimates directly to gaseous CO2. There would be no liquid phase in between. The phase transition would happen from D to F as well.

Udo

The phase transition under the conditions mentioned would happen directly from ice to gas. It evaporates. There would be no boiling at all. At 40c a liquid phase is impossible at 6-10 mbar air pressure.
In my above phase diagram the phase transition would happen from point D to F. No liquid phase at all.

Udo

BTW: This site has the current weather readings: marsweather.com

Udo

Liquid water is almost impossible under the current conditions:



The enclosed phase diagrams of water and carbon dioxid state clearly that the triple point of H2O is around 6 mbar and 0 deg Celsius, while for CO2 it is 5.1 bar (not mbar !) and -56.5 deg Celsius. This means: below 0 deg Celsius water is solid (ice) at 6 mbar and CO2 is a gas. At 7 deg Celsius as on sol 52 and 6.9 mbar air pressure water theoretically could be a liquid but it is most probably a gas. And CO2 is a gas always.

Cheers, Udo

I can't resist. Curiosity in action at Sol 54:


Click to enlarge the animation

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We seem to have a strong wind on Sol 51 ...


Pebbles swirling around ...

Curiosity: stand firm !

Cheers, Udo

I'm surprised as well why we bypassed Hottah without any further examination. Instead we are looking 2-3 weeks now at Glenelg for a suitable place to drill for a SAM probe.

why that ?

Cheers, Udo