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fredk View Member Profile	Feb 13 2007, 04:33 PM Post #31
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152	QUOTE (Stu @ Feb 13 2007, 08:27 AM) Have we driven onto a "ray" or a streak? The ground seems very dark suddenly... I think it's just our old friend auto-stretch. Those atmosphere shots tend to give a very dark foreground. Local time of shot about 10:30am.

avkillick View Member Profile	Feb 13 2007, 05:20 PM Post #32
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 25-March 05 Member No.: 216	QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Feb 13 2007, 09:13 AM) Oh man! If a drive some days ago was called the "drunken sailor walk", how would you call this? How about the "battlebot spin" -------------------- My Open Office Website: http://www.openofficetips.com

CosmicRocker View Member Profile	Feb 14 2007, 03:34 AM Post #33
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116	Compared to the drunken wobbling, I call this ballet. I'm wondering, might this be a method to create a large, distinguishable track feature that could be recognized by the software for a greater distance? That might allow sober walking for some distance afterward. -------------------- ...Tom I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast.

Tesheiner View Member Profile	Feb 14 2007, 08:50 AM Post #34
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253	Whatever purpose it has, they did it again. Sol 1087 which is almost finished was another driving day and the "post-drive" hazcam pics show that same zig-zag pattern. Edited: Short drive; less then 4m. At this pace we won't be at Hoy neither "hoy" nor "mañana" (that's for you Climber).

climber View Member Profile	Feb 14 2007, 09:40 AM Post #35
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2918 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682	QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Feb 14 2007, 09:50 AM) Whatever purpose it has, they did it again. Must be a big heart for Valentine... -------------------- My Blog

Tesheiner View Member Profile	Feb 14 2007, 01:59 PM Post #36
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253	Ok, I think I have the right name for that funny manouver. "Dog tail chasing".

mhoward View Member Profile	Feb 14 2007, 02:55 PM Post #37
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98	Considering that the feature is captured in the downsampled Navcam navigation images, I'd say it's an extra good guess it's used for navigation.

Guest_Bobby_*	Feb 14 2007, 07:54 PM Post #38
Guests	Possible Wheel Problem with OPPY? I hope not http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...MWP1244L0M1.JPG

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Feb 14 2007, 11:03 PM

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Whoa! back up he truck. this is what, as kids, we would call "doing donuts" after a rain, we'd go out on a grass soccer field and vandaliciously spin the car around with the accelerator gunned and the steering wheel pegged (no, we never got caught, darn kids!).
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CosmicRocker View Member Profile	Feb 15 2007, 05:24 AM Post #40
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116	Good to hear that you had a normal childhood, atomoid. I didn't learn to cut donuts until I "grew up." But I think they are more fun to do on dusty ground. -------------------- ...Tom I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast.

hendric View Member Profile	Feb 15 2007, 05:25 AM Post #41
Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93	Maybe they're messing up the dirt to create a spot for HiRise to observe over time as the winds cause it to evolve? -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks -- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality.

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Feb 15 2007, 08:25 PM

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The pancam L2 view from Sol 1087.

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dvandorn View Member Profile	Feb 16 2007, 01:22 AM Post #43
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15	QUOTE (hendric @ Feb 14 2007, 11:25 PM) Maybe they're messing up the dirt to create a spot for HiRise to observe over time as the winds cause it to evolve? Sounds like a good side effect, but I'd bet this is just another attempt to give Visidom something to look at. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain