Southward from San Antonio to the Next Waypoint |
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Southward from San Antonio to the Next Waypoint |
 Apr 13 2010, 03:20 AM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721  |
The one I like is, "Monday, if all goes well, we cut east". Looking at GM, this does appear to be a good spot to go cross-ripple and get back to The Thin Blue Line ™. East is good. East, and not stopping for awhile.
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Apr 13 2010, 05:20 AM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Bye bye San Antonio... you were a bit of a let-down if I'm honest, so glad to be on our way again...
What we want now is a really big hefty chunka star metal to appear up ahead of us... 
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Apr 13 2010, 05:24 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
...with a door in it.
-------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Apr 13 2010, 05:52 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Apr 13 2010, 11:25 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2998 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
QUOTE Looking at GM, this does appear to be a good spot to go cross-ripple and... Down here, we call this a whoop-tee-doo  http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...DXP2410R1M1.JPG QUOTE East is good. East, and not stopping for awhile But, remember, the Nav software can look for "interesting things" and stop for a look... Ended up getting over 30 L257 Pancam sets yesterday, shows some interesting things about San Antone... --Bill -------------------- |
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Apr 13 2010, 05:32 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Fascinating features on the ground in this view... lovely wind-sculpting effects...
And Bill, here's your "whoop-tee-doo"...
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Apr 14 2010, 08:25 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
The images from yestersol 30m drive are finally down. Navcam pics here: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...cam/2010-04-14/
And looking to this hazcam picture, my impression is that the ripples are becoming really small: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...HLP1202L0M1.JPG |
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Apr 14 2010, 08:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186 |
Wow, that was seemingly a pretty flat passage already!
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Apr 14 2010, 10:33 PM
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Have we switched to twice-a-day downlinks for memory clearing the past few days?
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Apr 14 2010, 10:50 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Don't read too much into how and when images make it online - it is far far more likely that we're seing the downlink split across two of the batch processes that put the images online, rather than two downlinks.
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Apr 14 2010, 11:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 18-December 07 From: New York Member No.: 3982 |
I'm looking more towards the tracking site then Exploratorium. It shows that images are downlinked on a sol way before the 5:00pm (local) afternoon communication session on Mars.
Right now for instance it is 12:45pm local time on Mars on sol 2212 and a good deal of images are already down according to the tracking site. Edit: Odyssey's orbit was shifted last year to approx 3:45 am/pm local time. Still doesn't account for the early data returns though. |
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Apr 15 2010, 05:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
The data I can see talks about a single daily downlink session currently around 0100UTC.
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Apr 15 2010, 06:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Just saw this piece of information on the latest status report.
The right-front and right-middle wheel are exhibiting modestly elevated motor current levels, which the project continues to watch. The plan ahead is more driving. |
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Apr 15 2010, 08:40 PM
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Let's hope they don't get any worse than "modestly elevated".
One thing I've been keeping my eye on as we continue southwards is the S to SE horizon. Remember how we had a great view in that direction from Concepcion, then the view worsened afterwards. Looking SE now, towards Iazu, you can see that the horizon is looking pretty rough, which means it's fairly close: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...1M1.JPG?sol2211 You can see the closer horizon start roughly to the south. It covers up the left side of the much more distant horizon in this image: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...1M1.JPG?sol2211 Presumably the close horizon to the S-SE is a bit of a subtle ridge that's blocking our view of the distant horizon. Hopefully this means that once we reach this ridge we'll get a great view of Iazu and parts of Endeavour again. |
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Apr 16 2010, 01:59 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
It looks like we have about two or three more sols of driving before making a hard turn to the East. At that point I think it's safe to say that the ripples of any meaningful size have ended, and by the look of things I can't imagine ever encountering them again.
And after about 20 sols of driving we are going to start getting the view of the horizon back. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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