To the Cape! (part 2), For real this time! |
To the Cape! (part 2), For real this time! |
Aug 1 2008, 08:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 934 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
Seems to me that we have moved forward about a foot at some point--are we free of the mess?
From here 7/25 to here 8/1 -------------------- |
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Aug 1 2008, 09:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
> are we free of the mess?
Not yet, IMO. Based on the data from the pancam web the latest "drive" was done in six steps and the slippage was quite high on all of them: 93%, 93%, 88%, 78%, 89%, and 94%. |
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Aug 2 2008, 08:18 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 18-December 07 From: New York Member No.: 3982 |
According to the latest Flight Director Report Opportunity's wheel stalled.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/mer/mer20080731/ |
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Aug 2 2008, 03:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721 |
Is this the same as with Spirit's wheel, that it won't rotate?
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Aug 2 2008, 04:56 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
In the past, they've used the word "stall" to indicate a one-time event...i.e., a mechanical component did not respond to a given command. Have to wait & see if it's a persistent problem or not.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Aug 2 2008, 05:45 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Forgetting the MECA story for a while, here's a colourisation of a beautiful layered rock imaged by Oppy... hope some of you like it
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Aug 2 2008, 06:04 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
What's not to like? Beautiful, Stu, thank you!
(STILL wanna take a rock hammer to these things & look between the layers. Guess it's up to my great-great-great, etc. grandsons and/or daughters to do so, though...rats.) -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Aug 3 2008, 02:35 PM
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At least we have something interesting to look if we're stuck here for the rest of the mission.
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Aug 3 2008, 08:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
Looking back at some of the movements made while they were taking closeups of the wheels I suspect it was the steering motor that stalled.
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Aug 3 2008, 08:22 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4256 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Big news from the new PS update:
QUOTE ...the rover experienced a spike in the electrical current to the motor for its left front wheel, an event ominously similar to what Spirit experienced just before it lost the use of its right front wheel for good back in March 2006... Not surprisingly, the team decided without much debate that it was time for Opportunity to rove on and out of Victoria. "We want to get out of the crater as quickly as possible," Callas said
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Aug 4 2008, 08:41 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
We had started to discuss the news that Oppy is on her way out in two separate threads, some posts moved to the Leaving Victoria crater thread. Lets continue things over there.
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Aug 11 2008, 05:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 18-December 07 From: New York Member No.: 3982 |
The Pancam site now has there version of the Cape Verde Pan in B&W.
http://pancam.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_ins..._capeverde.html |
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Aug 11 2008, 07:14 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
A few of us here probably know just how hard that must have been to pull together, to much kudos to the CCC for managing it
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Aug 11 2008, 10:29 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
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Aug 12 2008, 05:12 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Whoa! I studied that panorama for quite a while. I realized I was staring too long when the muscles in my gaping jaws started to cramp.
That was seriously painful. Be warned. -------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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