Getting Unstuck in West Valley Options

[RobertEB]

You're right, going back and reinterpret all the fascinating stuff would be great too and with all the calibrated data accessible now, one could rework many images/pans and animations we did then.

One thing I would still wish is that Spirit could reach finally a higher spot to get better sight over the plain.

I wanted to get a closer look at Pitchers Mound.

[fredk]

If we do get out, I have to wonder about further embedding events. We did remarkably well on our drive from the WH3 area. And we are more than a third of the way to VB/G from WH3. So if Troy is an anomaly, we can expect to get a lot closer to VB/G. I wonder what the thinking is on this with the team, and whether they have any ideas on how to avoid potential Troys in the future.

[centsworth_II]

One thing I would still wish is that Spirit could reach finally a higher spot to get better sight over the plain.

Higher than the top of Husband Hill?!

[djellison]

McCool Hill was found to be SLIGHTLY higher

[Tman]

You mean OUR Love... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyoMOHrH9c

[climber]

McCool Hill was found to be SLIGHTLY higher

So they named the top of Husband Hill "Everest", saving "Olympus Mons" for McCool's I'd said

[fredk]

Looks like the review will take place this Wednesday, from Maxwell's blog.

[CryptoEngineer]

So they named the top of Husband Hill "Everest", saving "Olympus Mons" for McCool's I'd said

I don't know exactly what the naming rules are, but I'd be astonished if they allowed naming a hill on Mars after a hill on Mars. That would be ... confusing.

How about "Kilauea"?

ce

[djellison]

So they named the top of Husband Hill "Everest", saving "Olympus Mons" for McCool's I'd said

They thought Husband was higher. It wasn't until doing basic trig from the top of it, they discovered McCool to be a few metres higher.

[climber]

They thought Husband was higher. It wasn't until doing basic trig from the top of it, they discovered McCool to be a few metres higher.

Thanks for this Doug, I didn't know.
An whaouu, I love "ce" statment of Olympus Mons been a "hill on Mars" . Isn't it the tallest mountains of the solar system?

[Vultur]

How about "Kilauea"?

Well, if you measure from the base of the mountain rather than from sea level, Mauna Kea is Earth's highest mountain - it's just that 6000 meters of it is underwater.

[CryptoEngineer]

Thanks for this Doug, I didn't know.
An whaouu, I love "ce" statment of Olympus Mons been a "hill on Mars" . Isn't it the tallest mountains of the solar system?

I was quite aware of the disparity in size. The point remains; having two Olympus Mons on Mars would be source of confusion, even if one is a thousand times the size of the other.

As others have pointed out, Mauna Kea is actually higher than Kilauea; I was just more familiar with Kilauea since it is active, MK is dormant.

Both are peaks on the Big Island of Hawaii, Mauna Kea rises 10,203m above its seafloor base. Olympus Mons is 27,000m high.

ce

[alan]

From Scott Maxwell's twitter page

Today's the big review: if we pass this, we're ready to start extricating Spirit Nov 9-ish (assuming no *other* problems). #FreeSpirit

[Phil Stooke]

"I don't know exactly what the naming rules are, but I'd be astonished if they allowed naming a hill on Mars after a hill on Mars. That would be ... confusing."

Not to worry, these are only informal names, very mission-specific. You're right that no formal naming of that type would be permitted. But look at the Moon, where craters at some Apollo sites (Sharp, Nansen etc.) received the same names as existing craters. When some of them were made official, the landing site names were changed (Sharp-Apollo, Nansen-Apollo etc.) to remove the uncertainty.

Phil

[climber]

I was just more familiar with Kilauea since it is active...
ce

Pretty right on this
(Family & me by mid of august this year)




Sorry ce, I know what you mean about Olympus Mons.