Opportunity Leaves Olympia, Goodbye Purgatory 2 |
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 Feb 24 2006, 09:06 AM
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I think it deserves it's own thread!
Sol 741 post-drive pancam "stamps" are finally made available at the tracking web. Here is the 4x1 mosaic and a similar one taken on sol 733.
Maybe I'm jumping too fast, but I believe Oppy left Olympia on sol 741 and is on the road again! PS: I hope haz and navcams are promptly available at the MER webpage to confirm it. |
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Feb 24 2006, 09:29 AM
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Finally!
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Feb 24 2006, 09:30 AM
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It was about time!
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Feb 24 2006, 11:13 AM
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Feb 24 2006, 11:20 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Confirmed!
Here is a quick navcam panorama looking forward. Clear route to Mogollon AND tosol (742) is planned as another driving sol.
Let me light some fireworks. It's celebration time!     
This post has been edited by Tesheiner: Feb 24 2006, 11:33 AM |
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Feb 24 2006, 11:23 AM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Feb 24 2006, 10:06 AM)  I think it deserves it's own thread! Sol 741 post-drive pancam "stamps" are finally made available at the tracking web. Here is the 4x1 mosaic and a similar one taken on sol 733.
Maybe I'm jumping too fast, but I believe Oppy left Olympia on sol 741 and is on the road again! PS: I hope haz and navcams are promptly available at the MER webpage to confirm it. Yes Yes Yes Yes [color=#FF0000]! But they can't believe it themselves since they had to put the IDD in the long forgotten fiture made by the weels as Oppy turn !!!  http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...IP1214L0M1.HTML
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Feb 24 2006, 12:03 PM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Feb 24 2006, 10:20 PM) Confirmed! Here is a quick navcam panorama looking forward. Clear route to Mogollon AND tosol (742) is planned as another driving sol.
Let me light some fireworks. It's celebration time! Nice! So great to see some images that don't look TOO familiar! Looking forward to lots of driving Lets get a LONG way away from Olympia ASAP! James -------------------- |
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Feb 24 2006, 12:24 PM
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Wonderful. We are now on the road again. I was a bit shocked when they whipped out the IDD, but this may be an encouraging sign that they are confident to use it after a short drive.
There are L456 Pancam of the outcrop at her wheels online. I don't have time now to make a color image, so feel free to do so! Interestingly, the bedrock here seems to be very fractured and jumbled. Unless she fiddles around at this spot, we are within 1 Sol of Nirvana. More later today, no doubt. --Bill -------------------- |
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Feb 24 2006, 12:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
IIRC, unstowing the IDD after any drive is part of the "new strategy". If the shoulder motor gives up permanently, they want that to happen with the IDD deployed.
Drawbacks? Imo, we will see more unsuccessful drives in the future due to stowage failures. Another point. I calculated the distance to the "suspect" outcrop where the rover is now located (the left one on previous route proposals) and the net drive was about 40m. Edited: And based on the current navcams, the distance to the black outcrop is about 20m. Too close? Based on the route maps there should be about 50m until Mogollon. |
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Feb 24 2006, 01:57 PM
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This is the half-pan we have so far for Sol 741 in polar projection. Thanks for the original, Tesheiner.
Phil
and this is where I think we are now...
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Feb 24 2006, 02:04 PM
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It's nice to see a new perspective
 
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Feb 24 2006, 02:09 PM
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And thank you for the demi-polar.
Notice how the sand is moving in the trough south of Oppy. I don't recall seeing it "flow" like that before. I see other possibly interesting features here too, but let me look at the images before flapping my gums... --Bill EDIT: nevermind, I _was_ flapping my gums. I mentally inverted the dune crest and it wasn't a trough. Nothing unusual. Another correction: all these months I've thought that the dark sand area to the left (east) of the views of Mogollon was the Payson promontory? Nope, Payson is a bit further down and much larger. Ths dark sand area is just an aeolian feature. -------------------- |
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Feb 24 2006, 02:35 PM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Feb 24 2006, 12:48 PM) and the net drive was about 40m. That's the figure JB suggested at the last QnA |
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Feb 24 2006, 04:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 713 Joined: 30-March 05 Member No.: 223 |
 it's been views like this I've been missing so badly 
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Feb 24 2006, 04:29 PM
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Thank goodness. What a relief.
The remaining Pancam images should be nice once they've come down (covering Mogollon, presumably). I wonder if we'll drive again right away. |
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