MSL "Drive, drive, drive" toward Glenelg, The scientists (mostly) get the keys - sols 38-56 |
MSL "Drive, drive, drive" toward Glenelg, The scientists (mostly) get the keys - sols 38-56 |
Sep 19 2012, 11:21 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 754 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 1700 |
Is Curiosity capable of breaking apart some of these small rocks simply by rolling over them?
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Sep 19 2012, 11:56 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Weak sedimentary rocks, probably, chunks of basalt and iron meteorites, no!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 20 2012, 12:23 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
So, this is kind of interesting, maybe: looks like some kind of reflection on sol 38. Reflection off of what? Appears in both eyes.
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Sep 20 2012, 01:08 AM
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Sep 20 2012, 01:26 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
I remember Jake well; he did a few of the early MER video flight director's reports... Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_MzQkWR3JU |
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Sep 20 2012, 05:49 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Thanks. It's good to see the face that belongs on that memorial.
There are a tremendous number of pyramid-shaped rocks on Mars. ... Yep. If I had to guess, I'd say they targeted this rock because it resembled Adirondack, the first rock targeted by Spirit; just for luck, or superstition. -------------------- ...Tom
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Sep 20 2012, 03:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1465 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Columbus OH USA Member No.: 13 |
A whole boatload of images came in today that were taken at sunrise, sol 42. Didn't know Curiosity was a morning person!
e.g., http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/ms...2000C0_DXXX.jpg ...and this NAVCAM taken 3 minutes after sunrise on sol 44: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/ra...0517M_&s=44 -------------------- |
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Sep 20 2012, 03:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Those would be the morning transit images.
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Sep 20 2012, 03:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
Today's batch include a set of five navcams showing the arm in action. It's shadow, actually.
I still find it somehow difficult to change from the MER experience to MSL. For instance, yesterday's images of Jake M. gave me the impression it was still too far of the arm workvolume and today we would see another bump to approach it. Of course (!) this arm is much longer than MER's and I just forgot that. |
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Sep 20 2012, 03:38 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 18-September 12 Member No.: 6655 |
Hmmmmm... is it just my imagination, or does ol' Jake here have spherules embedded in it? See the circled features below. -the other Doug The interesting part for me is that it has some horizontal striations on the left side and vertical ones on the right side. Image processing artifacts? |
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Sep 20 2012, 04:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
This image is too dark. Why don't they stretch it. Just like this ! -------------------- |
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Sep 20 2012, 04:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 178 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 498 |
Just out of reach.... but presumably close enough for MAHLI and perhaps (but probably not) APXS work. It's interesting to see the arm apparently at full stretch.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...NCAM00202M_.JPG Oh yes... and did we actually get some ChemCam zaps on Jake? |
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Sep 20 2012, 05:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1074 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Québec, Canada Member No.: 3908 |
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Sep 20 2012, 05:18 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
Today's batch include a set of five navcams showing the arm in action. It's shadow, actually. I still find it somehow difficult to change from the MER experience to MSL. For instance, yesterday's images of Jake M. gave me the impression it was still too far of the arm workvolume and today we would see another bump to approach it. Of course (!) this arm is much longer than MER's and I just forgot that. These images have been captured to verify the change in vehicle attitude when the arm is fully stretched and in other configurations. We approached Jake Matijevich from 30m away and intentionally kept at a safe distance. The bump to have the rock within the work volume will be done on Sol 45. Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Sep 20 2012, 05:36 PM
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