Extricating Spirit, Digging out from Troy |
Extricating Spirit, Digging out from Troy |
Nov 7 2009, 07:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1452 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
*crosses fingers*
Please... please... get out of that crap! Edit: What sol are these images from? I'm at http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/all/spirit.html , and I'm not seeing the images you guys are posting. -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Nov 7 2009, 07:48 PM
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Edit: What sol are these images from? I'm at http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/all/spirit.html , and I'm not seeing the images you guys are posting. Spirit Images http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/ Oppy Images: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportunity/ |
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Nov 7 2009, 08:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4256 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Here's a gamma-tweaked animation of the right rear hazcams from 2072 and 2078:
You can see the LR wheel has been steered more straight, and presumably driven as well. Can't see the RR wheel. Front hazcams show RF wheel was steered straight as well. I also would expect underbelly MI imaging. And also pancam images of the middle wheels. |
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Nov 7 2009, 08:09 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Go, baby, go!!! Good luck, MER team!
-------------------- 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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Nov 7 2009, 08:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1452 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Thanks, Sunspot. =)
Yeah, I'm sure they'll image the underneath. -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Nov 7 2009, 11:25 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
Another momentous moment for the rovers. Good luck to RoverDriver and rest of the team!
-------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Nov 8 2009, 12:56 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
I can't help but hear this in my mind while looking at the animated gifs....
Hot Rod Go Spirit and thanks to the team for all the hard work leading up to these days! -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Nov 8 2009, 04:14 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 237 Joined: 22-December 07 From: Alice Springs, N.T. Australia Member No.: 3989 |
Exciting to see at least some movement. It almost looks like we might be taking the forward option? From the data available it is hard to judge whether it is more probable that we will get out or not, but being an optimist I think we will eventually inch our way out in time to find a wintering place.
May interest some people ....... just posted a version 3 of the Sol 2002 (Aug21st) sunset movie on YouTube with the sun continuously tracking down to give a more realistic effect. Will do some final corrections/colour adjustments on a V4 soon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZtWGy0XcCQ or type into search:- mars august sunset v3 |
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Nov 8 2009, 04:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4256 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Maxwell tells us that this move only involved steering, not driving the wheels.
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Nov 8 2009, 04:33 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
But we're movin'! It's all good!
-------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Nov 8 2009, 07:25 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1057 Joined: 17-February 09 Member No.: 4605 |
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Nov 8 2009, 11:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
Yes, she moves ! Happy to see that
I think it miss the FHC anim between Sol 2078 and 2079. Done . -------------------- |
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Nov 8 2009, 11:26 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
is the downwards movement really good? We far far FAR too early in the extraction process ( step one of dozens and dozens and dozens of steps ) to say if it's good or not. But it HAS started, and that's reason to be happy. If you're going to be negative every time any motion doesn't correlate with your expectation of how things should or shouldn't go, you're going to go very very mad, very very quickly. |
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Nov 8 2009, 02:18 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
Downward movement when steering only would be expected as that's what happened when it was done previously (before they attempted a turn in place)
I recall roverdriver mentioned testing spinning the wheels while steering was tested to determine if it reduced the downward movement. |
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Nov 8 2009, 05:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4256 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
So RF and LR wheels were steered on 2078, and now LF and RR wheels steered on 2079. It's really hard to see what's happened with the RR, but if you compare the 2078 and 2079 images:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/re...03P1304R0M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/re...04P1314R0M1.JPG the soil behind the RR has moved quite a bit, perhaps looking as if the RR was actually driven. But my guess is it was just steered like all the others. This is definitely all good news - finally the extraction has begun! |
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