2004 02 27, February 27th, 2004 |
![]() ![]() |
2004 02 27, February 27th, 2004 |
![]()
Post
#1
|
|
![]() Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 710 Joined: 28-September 04 Member No.: 99 ![]() |
Hello, this is the Flight Director update for Friday February 27th. My name is Jessica Collisson and today I am the flight director for the Opportunity rover.
Pretty soon the rover will be waking up and getting ready to receive the commandload for the morning. After that commandload is received, it will do some engineering activities for health assessment and cleanup activities and then we’ll take a nap for about an hour in preparation for the big RAT-ting activities that we are going to do today. So we are going to conserve some power in the morning, so that we can run the Rock Abrasion Tool on our target Guadalupe, which is right in front of us, for about 2 hours and 45 minutes. Before we place the Rock Abrasion Tool on the target we will take some micro-images of the area. And then after the Rock Abrasion Tool has completed, we will place the Mossbauer instrument down and we will let the Mossbauer instrument run overnight and collect data on that new target. So exciting day, this is the second RAT activity that the Opportunity rover will be doing and so it should be good information for the team to assess. Spirit today completed an approach to its target called Humphrey. This is about a half a meter sized rock in front of it. And the overnight team is currently planning some brushing of the rock. Using the Rock Abrasion Tool we can both brush the surface of a target and grind the surface of a target. So they are going to be using the brush to be able to use more instrument on a larger area and to assess the properties of that rock. So stay tuned and we’ll pick up with the update on Monday. |
|
|
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 29th April 2024 - 01:36 AM |
RULES AND GUIDELINES Please read the Forum Rules and Guidelines before posting. IMAGE COPYRIGHT |
OPINIONS AND MODERATION Opinions expressed on UnmannedSpaceflight.com are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of UnmannedSpaceflight.com or The Planetary Society. The all-volunteer UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderation team is wholly independent of The Planetary Society. The Planetary Society has no influence over decisions made by the UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderators. |
SUPPORT THE FORUM Unmannedspaceflight.com is funded by the Planetary Society. Please consider supporting our work and many other projects by donating to the Society or becoming a member. |
![]() |