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Opportunity Route Map
Phil Stooke
post Sep 18 2016, 01:46 PM
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We drove overnight - well, somebody drove, we are just looking out of the windows. Update to sol 4497.

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post Sep 19 2016, 08:46 PM
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"drove overnight" wow, is that unprecedented? i guess its not really a power issue since all they need to do is essentially let off the brakes here, though that's probably not an accurate statement, but I've never heard of a MER night drive that before.

speaking of power issues, i have to wonder what the battery's charge capacity is like these days, er years? like the rover, it has to have started going south years ago, i remember 10 years ago it was discussed somewhere on this board that it would be the final limiting factor a few years down the road if all else went well, and well, all else has gone so very very well, but the battery... <insert energizer bunny reference here>
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post Sep 19 2016, 09:05 PM
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No - over my night in Ontario. In other words, I get up in the morning and find new images showing that a drive has occurred. It is quite impossible for Opportunity to drive at night on Mars.

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post Sep 19 2016, 09:11 PM
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Unless Opportunity is a super all terrain vehicle and can get over major terrain elevation texture changes, she may have to head North-East to find a smooth transition route to the lower crater wall. Surely due East is not an option...


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post Sep 20 2016, 12:28 AM
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The rover drivers have a wealth of experience with interpreting satellite images and identifying transits within Opportunities capability that also meet science objectives. I don't think they will have any problems getting down to the apron for the trek south.
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post Sep 22 2016, 12:13 AM
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Map update to sol 4500, approaching The Hill With No Name, as fine a ski jump as i have seen on Mars.

I don't expect our plucky rover to go down onto the lower slope, I think it will turn south after looking at the hill and move along the slope from one outcrop to another, eventually moving back uphill again.

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post Sep 22 2016, 12:34 AM
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As great a name that The Hill With No Name is, it does now have a proper name: Spirit Mound.
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post Sep 22 2016, 12:50 AM
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They did that deliberately! Waited for me to make a fool of myself after checking countless times - refresh, refresh, refresh. Then they post it.

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post Sep 23 2016, 11:59 AM
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OK, map update complete with mound name. It may be a nod to Spirit the rover, but it really takes its name from a place in South Dakota, visited by the Lewis and Clark expedition. Arrow Rock (Missouri) was another place visited along the way. So in Marathon Valley we had feature names taken from people on the expedition, here we have names taken from places along the route.

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post Sep 26 2016, 12:49 PM
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A little move forwards to a science target, sol 4505.

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post Oct 2 2016, 03:07 AM
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A close-up map of Spirit Mound. This is not based on a high quality DEM so don't treat it as a very accurate orthophoto of the site. It's just an approximation intended to help locate targets relative to the rover.

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PS this new valley has a name now, Bitterroot Valley, taking its name from a place in Montana.


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post Oct 7 2016, 11:27 PM
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A tiny move to the north on sol 4516, probably for more multispectral imaging of Gasconade, or perhaps to reposition the IDD.

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post Oct 11 2016, 10:42 PM
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OK, the last small move was to reposition the IDD. Today (sol 4520) a 1 m move to image the Gasconade area.

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post Oct 14 2016, 12:07 AM
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a map of recent activities on Spirit Mound.

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post Oct 19 2016, 01:44 AM
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A little move on sol 4527. Mike Seibert tweeted that this will improve communications over the next week - suggesting to me a lot of imaging, maybe a big panorama.

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