MSL at Rocknest, First scoop samples - sols 57-101 |
MSL at Rocknest, First scoop samples - sols 57-101 |
 Oct 3 2012, 12:30 AM
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Curiosity has put more than 400 meters on the odometer and tosol (sol 56) she bumped up to a sand drift that we now know (via Twitter) is named Rocknest and will be the site of the first sample grab. In last week's press briefing, John Grotzinger warned that we will be here for "what seems like a very long time," 2-3 weeks. They will have to run several samples through the SA-SPaH (Sample Acquisition, Processing and Handling subsystem, pronounced "Saw-spa") and in particular CHIMRA (Collection and Handling for In situ Martian Rock Analysis, pronounced "chimera") in order to "clean" it of any remaining Earthly contamination with good Mars dirt before they deliver the first sample to SAM or Chemin. So this seems like a good place to start a new thread.
As usual, discuss stuff that happened through sol 56 in the previous thread. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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elakdawalla MSL at Rocknest Oct 3 2012, 12:30 AM
Doc Update on the bright object Oct 8 2012, 11:12 PM
pmetschan QUOTE (Doc @ Oct 8 2012, 04:12 PM) Update... Oct 8 2012, 11:21 PM Doc QUOTE (pmetschan @ Oct 9 2012, 02:21 AM) ... Oct 8 2012, 11:29 PM paraisosdelsistemasolar ChemCam images of the bright object:
It seems ... Oct 8 2012, 11:40 PM nprev Kapton tape fragment? That crap can get brittle. (... Oct 8 2012, 11:43 PM climber Let's fire the laser, we'll know for sure... Oct 9 2012, 12:44 AM Decepticon QUOTE (climber @ Oct 8 2012, 07:44 PM) Le... Oct 10 2012, 12:11 AM Bill Harris QUOTE (climber @ Oct 8 2012, 07:44 PM) Le... Oct 10 2012, 05:44 PM dvandorn QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Oct 10 2012, 12:44 P... Oct 10 2012, 06:31 PM elakdawalla OK, somebody check my work. According to this arti... Oct 9 2012, 12:59 AM Bjorn Jonsson Assuming I understand everything correctly I get ~... Oct 9 2012, 01:13 AM fredk I agree with Bjorn. 8 mm.
And I see no stereo in... Oct 9 2012, 01:16 AM elakdawalla I'm not at my best in the evening! Thanks ... Oct 9 2012, 01:25 AM Explorer1 MAHLI can always look at it between scoops, right? Oct 9 2012, 01:28 AM elakdawalla I understand they shot a jillion Mastcam-100 pics ... Oct 9 2012, 01:29 AM dvandorn Is there any way to tell if Little Shiny was prese... Oct 9 2012, 02:04 AM jmknapp QUOTE (dvandorn @ Oct 8 2012, 10:04 PM) j... Oct 9 2012, 11:28 AM Pando Most everything on the surface is covered with red... Oct 9 2012, 04:29 AM ronald It's pretty obvious that this is not martian. ... Oct 9 2012, 07:01 AM ddan QUOTE (ronald @ Oct 9 2012, 02:01 AM) It... Oct 9 2012, 12:19 PM vikingmars QUOTE (ddan @ Oct 9 2012, 02:19 PM) It lo... Oct 9 2012, 01:58 PM fredk For sure it could, but the press release said ... Oct 9 2012, 03:01 PM paraisosdelsistemasolar I've tried to make a quick match of Sol 60/61 ... Oct 9 2012, 03:46 PM Doc From your animation parais. there doesn't seem... Oct 9 2012, 04:50 PM pechisbeque Could it be a scrapping from the corner of the sco... Oct 9 2012, 06:22 PM Stu Personally I'm amazed we haven't seen more... Oct 9 2012, 07:23 PM Pando QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 9 2012, 12:23 PM) and th... Oct 9 2012, 07:50 PM atomoid It's likely to be debris from EDL, we are down... Oct 9 2012, 07:26 PM Stu QUOTE (Pando @ Oct 9 2012, 08:50 PM) A fr... Oct 9 2012, 08:03 PM Phil Stooke An update on MSL from the MEPAG meeting which just... Oct 9 2012, 08:14 PM fredk I'm going to go out on a limb, and say the lit... Oct 9 2012, 09:17 PM Marvin NASA is now saying this "Object Likely Benign... Oct 9 2012, 09:56 PM atomoid You can see that white rabbit and about a half-doz... Oct 9 2012, 11:42 PM fredk Speaking of Oppy's detritus, I think the best ... Oct 10 2012, 02:54 AM djellison Little? That's one of the heatshield push off ... Oct 10 2012, 03:06 AM Astro0 So while we were all staring at the little shiny, ... Oct 10 2012, 06:45 AM fredk QUOTE (Astro0 @ Oct 10 2012, 07:45 AM) A ... Oct 10 2012, 03:18 PM ronald Two sol 59 pans - right one is only partial ...
... Oct 10 2012, 06:54 AM EdTruthan Animated GIF Anaglyph of 1st Martian Soil Scoop - ... Oct 10 2012, 07:04 AM Antonb Can anyone explain the strange "snail trails... Oct 10 2012, 07:18 AM blueaeshna That looks to me like something has dripped some (... Oct 10 2012, 12:01 PM djellison QUOTE (blueaeshna @ Oct 10 2012, 05:01 AM... Oct 10 2012, 02:26 PM Ant103 For me, I have the impression that's the littl... Oct 10 2012, 12:12 PM Floyd Mars Rovers have never had hydraulic systems or ac... Oct 10 2012, 01:20 PM mhoward Context for the partial sol 59 Mastcam M-100 mosai... Oct 10 2012, 02:10 PM stewjack QUOTE (mhoward @ Oct 10 2012, 09:10 AM) C... Oct 10 2012, 03:47 PM mhoward QUOTE (stewjack @ Oct 10 2012, 09:47 AM) ... Oct 10 2012, 04:30 PM belleraphon1 Resume Working with First Scooped Sample
"In... Oct 10 2012, 06:38 PM EdTruthan Here's the Sol 59 (partial) MC100 mosaic whith... Oct 10 2012, 07:49 PM fredk Sol 60 M100's coming down now. Here are Phil... Oct 11 2012, 12:33 AM EdTruthan Ask and ye shall receive! Here's the Full ... Oct 11 2012, 01:08 AM empebe QUOTE (EdTruthan @ Oct 11 2012, 02:08 AM)... Oct 12 2012, 10:06 PM ronald Nice ones Ed and Fred! The side-by-side image... Oct 11 2012, 06:18 AM ngunn QUOTE (ronald @ Oct 11 2012, 07:18 AM) Ed... Oct 11 2012, 11:20 AM jmknapp Anaglyph of the one on the right:
Oct 11 2012, 10:30 AM Stu I'm looking at this and thinking "VERY re... Oct 11 2012, 03:32 PM SpaceListener QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 11 2012, 10:32 AM) I... Oct 12 2012, 03:52 PM kenny Fascinating....or one friable one which simply fel... Oct 11 2012, 03:50 PM xflare I think those are chemcam laser shots. Oct 11 2012, 03:54 PM Stu QUOTE (xflare @ Oct 11 2012, 04:54 PM) I ... Oct 11 2012, 04:26 PM fredk Definitely laser pits:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ms... Oct 11 2012, 05:07 PM Astro0 ADMINmode: A bunch of posts related to observation... Oct 11 2012, 11:23 PM Astro0 Sol 59 Mastcam (right) image of the wheel tread pa... Oct 12 2012, 12:41 AM dombili Animated GIF of the turret from SOL 65 (Navcam L -... Oct 12 2012, 12:53 AM Jam Butty Sol 65 MAHLI stereo of 'The Fragment'
fli... Oct 12 2012, 02:26 AM fredk Another bright bit to add to the list, at the bott... Oct 12 2012, 03:41 AM atomoid QUOTE (fredk @ Oct 11 2012, 08:41 PM) Ano... Oct 12 2012, 06:15 PM ronald Partial Sol 64 pan - just for the overview:
Bi... Oct 12 2012, 07:21 AM Stu Wow, this is a helluva place isn't it? Oct 12 2012, 08:55 AM nprev It is indeed, Stu, and thanks for the beautiful im... Oct 12 2012, 09:34 AM walfy Took Jam's work on this to make a quick anagly... Oct 12 2012, 03:18 PM dvandorn This is not to say that we haven't seen quite ... Oct 12 2012, 04:32 PM ngunn I don't suppose we'll get to visit the far... Oct 12 2012, 06:01 PM ronald Hmm - I was just curious what this would show.
Sm... Oct 12 2012, 06:22 PM Eyesonmars QUOTE (ronald @ Oct 12 2012, 07:22 PM) Hm... Oct 12 2012, 10:36 PM ronald QUOTE (Eyesonmars @ Oct 13 2012, 12:36 AM... Oct 13 2012, 08:46 AM elakdawalla Oh, awesome! The video shows the portion door ... Oct 12 2012, 07:46 PM jamescanvin Sol 64 mastcam100 panorama. What an unbelievable p... Oct 12 2012, 08:52 PM ngunn And what an incredible job you've done with it... Oct 12 2012, 09:18 PM Eyesonmars Thank you to the Taxpayers, NASA, JPL, everyone on... Oct 12 2012, 10:15 PM Ant103 My take on this stunning panorama, with an incredi... Oct 12 2012, 11:24 PM atomoid golly gee whiz... speechlessly nice scnenery comin... Oct 13 2012, 01:57 AM CosmicRocker QUOTE (Eyesonmars @ Oct 12 2012, 05:36 PM... Oct 13 2012, 04:58 AM Astro0 With just a dash of artistic licence
Oct 13 2012, 01:41 PM udolein My take of the Sol 64 video about the 1st probe... Oct 13 2012, 03:12 PM eoincampbell QUOTE (Astro0 @ Oct 13 2012, 03:41 PM) Wi... Oct 13 2012, 05:10 PM climber Astro, if I forget "lock screen" on my t... Oct 13 2012, 06:06 PM EdTruthan Here's and updated version of the Sol 59 ... Oct 13 2012, 06:44 PM Ant103 Absolutely great Astro0 !
Thank you Climber,... Oct 13 2012, 06:52 PM ronald 2nd scoop:
Oct 13 2012, 08:38 PM ngunn I have a question about ripple/dune formation that... Oct 13 2012, 09:15 PM nprev I think that the bright coating on dunes (and on a... Oct 13 2012, 09:21 PM ngunn OK, but leaving dark and light out of it there is ... Oct 13 2012, 09:51 PM serpens This armouring effect is much like Spirit's Se... Oct 13 2012, 10:07 PM ngunn QUOTE (serpens @ Oct 13 2012, 11:07 PM) I... Oct 13 2012, 10:26 PM helvick Ngunn , assuming (relatively) rare atmospheric con... Oct 13 2012, 10:26 PM dvandorn Also, remember that the ripples have a cemented la... Oct 14 2012, 01:23 AM  |
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