Opportunity Route Map |
Opportunity Route Map |
Sep 18 2016, 01:46 PM
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#3421
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
We drove overnight - well, somebody drove, we are just looking out of the windows. Update to sol 4497.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 19 2016, 08:46 PM
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#3422
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Member Group: Members Posts: 866 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 196 |
"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 |
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Sep 19 2016, 09:05 PM
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#3423
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 19 2016, 09:11 PM
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#3424
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Member Group: Members Posts: 909 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
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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Sep 20 2016, 12:28 AM
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#3425
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1043 Joined: 17-February 09 Member No.: 4605 |
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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Sep 22 2016, 12:13 AM
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#3426
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 22 2016, 12:34 AM
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#3427
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
As great a name that The Hill With No Name is, it does now have a proper name: Spirit Mound.
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Sep 22 2016, 12:50 AM
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#3428
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
They did that deliberately! Waited for me to make a fool of myself after checking countless times - refresh, refresh, refresh. Then they post it.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 23 2016, 11:59 AM
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#3429
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 26 2016, 12:49 PM
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#3430
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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Oct 2 2016, 03:07 AM
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#3431
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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.
Phil PS this new valley has a name now, Bitterroot Valley, taking its name from a place in Montana. -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Oct 7 2016, 11:27 PM
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#3432
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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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Oct 11 2016, 10:42 PM
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#3433
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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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Oct 14 2016, 12:07 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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Oct 19 2016, 01:44 AM
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#3435
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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