Southward from San Antonio to the Next Waypoint |
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 Apr 5 2010, 08:01 PM
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RF is durty but seems been working ok:
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Apr 5 2010, 08:29 PM
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That image is from the previous drive. On 2202 we perhaps dug into a dune enough to trigger an abort? Here's the F hazcam:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...NVP1211R0M1.JPG |
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Apr 5 2010, 08:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Climber, that's an old picture from about a week ago.
This is the latest fhazcam picture; in any case no visible problem. 
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Apr 5 2010, 08:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Sorry, 1 m drive, then abort, corresponded too much to what I though was the right one, so I didn't double checked.
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Apr 5 2010, 09:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
FWIW, the next drive is on sol 2204 i.e. tomorrow.
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Apr 6 2010, 12:51 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 23-February 09 From: Edmonton, Alberta Member No.: 4611 |
looks like we're ok
@marsroverdriver Oppy drove more like 1m than 50m this weekend: an "embedding detector" tripped. It's conservative; we're demonstrably not embedded. Onward! |
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Apr 7 2010, 05:50 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Still waiting for the latest pictures to confirm it but AFAIK yestersol drive covered just 1m once again.
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Apr 7 2010, 05:58 AM
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Hmm. Well, if this is true, then at least the fault condition seems both predictable & consistent in its behavior. An incorrect flag trip setting (slope, wheel rotation vs. intertial distance traveled, something like that) or something with the new AEGIS capability?
Whatever it is, hopefully it won't to be too difficult to find with two occurrences to study now. Oppy's actually in a pretty good place (literally) at this time for debugging. -------------------- 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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Apr 8 2010, 01:01 AM
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Apr 8 2010, 03:23 AM
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QUOTE (nprev @ Apr 6 2010, 10:58 PM)  .... or something with the new AEGIS capability? That must be what it is. AEGIS keeps spotting these fascinating round rocks and wants to stop to examine them.
Attached thumbnail(s)
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Apr 8 2010, 04:00 AM
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Woops! That would be more funny than annoying if it was true! Imagine what the mass media would say, if they cared.
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Apr 8 2010, 04:07 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Apr 7 2010, 06:50 AM) Still waiting for the latest pictures to confirm it but AFAIK yestersol drive covered just 1m once again. The latest official Oppy map confirms a very short drive on 2204. It's tough without images, eh? |
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Apr 8 2010, 03:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Yup. I'm missing my daily fix.
 While waiting for today's drive (attempt), here's a GE snapshot with the last two steps compared with a normal 50m drive.
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Apr 8 2010, 04:12 PM
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Maybe this second 1m drive was due to manouvering in order to cross the dune at a better spot
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Apr 8 2010, 05:20 PM
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Sure hope you are wrong. If we have to spend a few days manoeuvring around to cross any average dune, our progress toward Endeavour will be... hindered.
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