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4th leg in the trek to Endeavour, After science stop @ Kasos
Tesheiner
post May 20 2009, 08:25 AM
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I think it's time for a new thread.
Opportunity is leaving the area where Kasos and other targets were "sniffed" and imaged, making a 20m drive westwards during sol 1891. Besides, we are reaching the 16km milestone.

Here's a Q&D "post-drive" navcam mosaic.
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Edited: we are in "restricted sols", right?
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RoverDriver
post Jun 6 2009, 02:05 PM
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RF wheel currents were beginning to trend upwards again so the drivers on shift decided to start driving backwards again and rest for a while.
There is some challenging terrain about 500m ahead and we will have to sit and think which way to go. This next resting period will come in handy for that.

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post Jun 7 2009, 10:16 AM
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QUOTE (RoverDriver @ Jun 6 2009, 03:05 PM) *
There is some challenging terrain about 500m ahead and we will have to sit and think which way to go.


It does look tricky. My favourite route at the moment would be something like this, using patches of bedrock to move east and moving south when in areas where the drift material looks dangerous.
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post Jun 7 2009, 01:54 PM
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QUOTE (SFJCody @ Jun 7 2009, 02:16 AM) *
It does look tricky. My favourite route at the moment would be something like this, using patches of bedrock to move east and moving south when in areas where the drift material looks dangerous.


How about that! We are considering a path similar to that one but most of the drivers prefer a path that goes all around (westward) the area of Purgatoids that is just south of the rover.

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post Jun 7 2009, 03:23 PM
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To my eye, angling south-west now, then proceeding close to the edges of the HiRISE photo south then east seems to offer the cleanest route to the really nice looking terrain in the eastern third of the shot. Is that the way being favoured?
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- Tesheiner   4th leg in the trek to Endeavour   May 20 2009, 08:25 AM
- - djellison   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ May 20 2009, 09:25 AM)...   May 20 2009, 09:40 AM
- - Tesheiner   > ONWARDS! Rui / Ustrax, did you hacked Do...   May 20 2009, 10:22 AM
|- - SFJCody   It will be interesting to see what route they take...   May 20 2009, 11:21 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (SFJCody @ May 20 2009, 03:21 AM) i...   May 20 2009, 01:29 PM
- - Tesheiner   I was doing the same questions since we continued ...   May 20 2009, 12:26 PM
- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ May 20 2009, 10:25 AM)...   May 20 2009, 03:51 PM
|- - SFJCody   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ May 20 2009, 04:51 PM)...   May 20 2009, 08:21 PM
|- - RoverDriver   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ May 20 2009, 08:51 AM)...   May 20 2009, 11:09 PM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (RoverDriver @ May 21 2009, 01:09 A...   May 21 2009, 05:57 AM
|- - RoverDriver   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ May 20 2009, 10:57 PM)...   May 21 2009, 07:28 AM
- - BrianL   Paolo, some of these guys know so much you'll ...   May 21 2009, 03:53 AM
|- - RoverDriver   QUOTE (BrianL @ May 20 2009, 07:53 PM) .....   May 21 2009, 05:17 AM
- - Tesheiner   > Sorry for the length of the post ... What...   May 21 2009, 08:15 AM
- - Tesheiner   Finished reading it, and really enjoyed. Many than...   May 21 2009, 01:41 PM
|- - RoverDriver   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ May 21 2009, 06:41 AM)...   May 21 2009, 02:07 PM
|- - HughFromAlice   QUOTE (RoverDriver @ May 21 2009, 11:37 P...   May 21 2009, 09:22 PM
|- - climber   QUOTE (HughFromAlice @ May 21 2009, 11:22...   May 24 2009, 08:19 PM
- - Astro0   Tesheiner: That places the 16km milestone right at...   May 22 2009, 04:35 AM
- - nprev   ...I knew those labels had to be huge on the groun...   May 22 2009, 05:00 AM
- - Tesheiner   Good laugh Could someone enhance/zoom the horizon...   May 22 2009, 05:39 AM
|- - Nirgal   good to see her moving towards the goal again ...   May 22 2009, 10:35 AM
- - Ant103   Ha ha ha Astro0 Very nice. I've made a tru...   May 22 2009, 01:59 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (Ant103 @ May 22 2009, 03:59 PM) I...   May 22 2009, 02:04 PM
|- - BrianL   QUOTE (Ant103 @ May 22 2009, 08:59 AM) I...   May 22 2009, 05:14 PM
- - jamescanvin   Talking of miles, we must be pretty close to the 1...   May 22 2009, 02:52 PM
|- - BrianL   QUOTE (jamescanvin @ May 22 2009, 09:52 A...   May 22 2009, 05:19 PM
- - jamescanvin   Here is the sol 1892 colour (R21) drive direction ...   May 22 2009, 03:32 PM
- - Ant103   And my version   May 22 2009, 03:54 PM
- - ilbasso   One or two more drives and we'll be over 10 mi...   May 22 2009, 10:58 PM
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- - alan   I used martian fortnights, so no conversion of sol...   May 26 2009, 02:20 PM
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- - Oersted   Congrats on the ten miles! (Even though I thin...   May 27 2009, 12:34 AM
|- - serpens   But that is only 8.7 nautical miles so she still h...   May 27 2009, 06:38 AM
- - briv1016   QUOTE (serpens @ May 27 2009, 02:38 AM) B...   May 27 2009, 08:10 AM
- - djellison   It's one minute, not one degree - and on Mars,...   May 27 2009, 08:23 AM
- - briv1016   I stand corrected.   May 27 2009, 06:24 PM
- - imipak   Clearly, where α is awesome, Op ...   May 27 2009, 08:02 PM
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- - SpaceListener   However, it is possible to advance two hops of 50 ...   Jun 2 2009, 10:21 PM
|- - RoverDriver   QUOTE (SpaceListener @ Jun 2 2009, 02:21 ...   Jun 2 2009, 11:37 PM
|- - Nirgal   QUOTE drive shorter distances and drive more days ...   Jun 3 2009, 07:47 AM
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- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (nprev @ Jun 4 2009, 01:54 PM) That...   Jun 6 2009, 12:55 PM
- - RoverDriver   RF wheel currents were beginning to trend upwards ...   Jun 6 2009, 02:05 PM
|- - SFJCody   QUOTE (RoverDriver @ Jun 6 2009, 03:05 PM...   Jun 7 2009, 10:16 AM
|- - RoverDriver   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Jun 7 2009, 02:16 AM) It...   Jun 7 2009, 01:54 PM
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||- - RoverDriver   QUOTE (BrianL @ Jun 7 2009, 07:23 AM) To ...   Jun 7 2009, 03:32 PM
||- - climber   QUOTE (RoverDriver @ Jun 7 2009, 05:32 PM...   Jun 7 2009, 04:42 PM
|- - Nirgal   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Jun 7 2009, 12:16 PM) us...   Jun 7 2009, 07:32 PM
- - Tesheiner   > the next resting period ... Is it at that ou...   Jun 7 2009, 04:48 PM
|- - RoverDriver   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jun 7 2009, 08:48 AM) ...   Jun 7 2009, 05:17 PM
|- - Poolio   QUOTE (RoverDriver @ Jun 7 2009, 01:17 PM...   Jun 8 2009, 02:01 AM
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|- - Nirgal   QUOTE (RoverDriver @ Jun 9 2009, 05:11 PM...   Jun 9 2009, 08:56 PM
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- - Floyd   I thought I was looking at Spirit tracks. What th...   Jun 9 2009, 11:44 PM
|- - RoverDriver   QUOTE (Floyd @ Jun 9 2009, 04:44 PM) I th...   Jun 9 2009, 11:53 PM
- - Astro0   That's very interesting and very pretty   Jun 10 2009, 04:56 AM
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- - Shaka   The little sliver of white to the upper left of th...   Jun 10 2009, 06:41 AM
|- - briv1016   QUOTE (Shaka @ Jun 10 2009, 02:41 AM) The...   Jun 10 2009, 07:11 AM
- - Floyd   QUOTE (Shaka @ Jun 10 2009, 01:41 AM) The...   Jun 10 2009, 10:08 AM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (Floyd @ Jun 10 2009, 05:08 AM) I w...   Jun 10 2009, 02:23 PM
- - fredk   I don't see any sign of slippage in these imag...   Jun 10 2009, 02:17 PM
- - Shaka   I'm wishing for the same thing, Cents, but aft...   Jun 10 2009, 11:22 PM
- - marsophile   Since we seem to be stopped in "DuneLand...   Jun 11 2009, 12:13 AM
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- - imipak   QUOTE (Floyd @ Jun 10 2009, 11:08 AM) I w...   Jun 11 2009, 08:29 AM
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- - BrianL   So, as I understand it, this is where we sit and w...   Jun 11 2009, 12:08 PM
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|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (djellison @ Jun 11 2009, 05:47 PM)...   Jun 11 2009, 06:23 PM
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- - BrianL   They sure didn't give any hint on this latest ...   Jun 19 2009, 12:47 PM
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- - fredk   This was quite a short rest stop - only 8 sols. M...   Jun 19 2009, 02:44 PM
- - Tesheiner   I'm not sure if we're "back on busine...   Jun 19 2009, 03:18 PM
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