The Start of the Drive East, Up to Cambridge Bay |
The Start of the Drive East, Up to Cambridge Bay |
Aug 11 2010, 09:22 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
That's where I left it! Thanks.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 12 2010, 08:08 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 568 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Silesia Member No.: 299 |
Finally Opportunity entered the low ripples area.
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...LTP1205R0M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...LYP1211R0M1.JPG Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that this was a long drive. -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
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Aug 12 2010, 08:51 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2917 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
I love it so much, I broke the tradition of a life time and found an avatar I thought you were a Human! Front seat driver, eh? -------------------- |
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Aug 12 2010, 08:54 AM
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Aug 12 2010, 09:32 AM
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The Navcam images of the Hills are starting to look like some of the early Pancam images of them now. Memories of the drive to the Columbia Hills.
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Aug 12 2010, 10:56 AM
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Aug 12 2010, 01:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2917 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Even if you're very accurate Eduardo, it's nice to be able to point out very precisely where we are, isn't it? It reminds me of the traverse from Erebus to Victoria.
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Aug 12 2010, 02:09 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 12 2010, 07:17 PM
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After seeing the first signs of the ripples changing recently, I thought it was time to dust off the ripple mapping and take a look at the terrain between here and Santa Maria.
Click image for larger images (1 & 2m/pixel) and some of my thoughts on the terrain ahead. James -------------------- |
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Aug 12 2010, 08:41 PM
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Good to know she already is on the blue/green colored terrain. We should be just 1-2 weeks away from the big pavement right before the "parking-lot" terrain.
Meanwhile, I checked the tracking web. There's yet another driving sol tomorrow. |
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Aug 13 2010, 12:10 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 71 Joined: 19-January 10 From: Grimsby, N.E. Lincs, UK Member No.: 5179 |
There's yet another driving sol tomorrow. Oppy really does seem to have her foot down at the minute. Is there any reason they would be rushing to get to a certain point or is it simply a combination of power improving/nothing to see here/good driving conditions/good wheel behaviour? Neil |
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Aug 13 2010, 12:30 AM
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Likely power. Solstice passed, power is improving with the solar elevation, and a recent cleaning event helps.
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Aug 13 2010, 08:41 AM
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And we're no longer in "restricted sols". But don't think the rover is "rushing"; almost each and every sol during this last week the science team was imaging selected targets with the pancam. The fact that the IDD is not being used doesn't mean a lack of interest on the surrounding environment.
In another topic, we are back to the "sea of dunes" but that will definitively change in a few hundreds of meters. Navcam mosaic from today (sol 2329). |
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Aug 13 2010, 08:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2917 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Looking at Oppy tosol route and at James's posting above, I'd said that we'll be going South East for some drives before heading again East strait to Santa Maria. Even if one drive doesn't show general direction, doing so will avoid most of the "red" dunes ahead.
I'm heading myself to Mars-like Arica (Chile) for 3 weeks, but that's another story -------------------- |
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Aug 14 2010, 09:58 AM
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Just checked the tracking data to know about the latest drive: 93+m on sol 2330!
This was the longest one since sol 1797. |
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