Getting Unstuck in West Valley |
Getting Unstuck in West Valley |
Nov 6 2009, 07:42 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 14-April 06 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 745 |
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Nov 6 2009, 08:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 656 Joined: 20-April 05 From: League City, Texas Member No.: 285 |
Extend the arm out as far as possible, and use the MI to stare at a patch of distinctive grains. That's a really interesting notion. Much the same might be achieved by having pancam stare at the arm or a distant target. Either would require onboard processing of a long-running image sequence, something like watching for dust devils but more intense. |
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Nov 6 2009, 08:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4246 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
Using the arm that way might be useful in weather-station mode, but I'd be surprized if you'd get useful seismology out of it since I'd expect the arm movements to be completely dominated by wind. But then you could turn the argument around and use the arm this way as a wind monitor, since we have no wind sock. At least with the arm extended out in one direction you could presumably read off one component of the wind velocity by looking at the arm's displacement. Rotate the arm around 90 degrees to get another component, perhaps.
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Nov 8 2009, 08:22 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Topic split, continued here from the point that Spirit's wheels started moving!
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