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Where There's A Will, There's A Way, But..., Getting to Victoria

nasaman58 View Member Profile	Jun 6 2005, 05:08 AM Post #1
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 17-April 05 Member No.: 236	I'm thrilled that Oppy's out of the dune, and I'll admit that I have not scoured and computer processed the raw pictures like good forum members should, but I think I still raise a good question: Do any of you have any ideas as to how on Earth (or Mars, rather) Oppy will be able to get to Erebus or Victoria given that it looks like the terrain leading up to these astrogeological treasure troves is the same as what got Oppy stuck in the first place? Does it sound viable to drive around the culprit dune staying in the valleys inbetween to get there? It seems this would be a majorly long and inefficeint switch-back driving method, but honestly, is there any other foreseeable way?

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Phil Stooke

Jun 12 2005, 05:56 PM

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Here's a sketch of the Opportunity route in the few sols leading up to getting stuck. It is NOT to scale... the areas with details are further apart than this suggests. (I have been sketching the routes like this since the landing for both rovers).

It is based on all images from about this time, hazcam and others. You can see two places where three point turns were made to reverse direction. The top one followed what looks to me like an attempt to turn 180 degrees in place, but which proved difficult and inadvertently dug a trench.

So we should see another of these shortly!

Phil

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nasaman58 Where There's A Will, There's A Way, But... Jun 6 2005, 05:08 AM

sapodilla Cruising in valleys between the dunes is my recipe... Jun 6 2005, 05:40 AM

dvandorn As I understand it, the rovers can be programmed t... Jun 6 2005, 07:53 AM

Mode5 I expect to see some very slow and cautious manuev... Jun 6 2005, 08:02 AM

djellison MRO imagery cant arrive fast enough eh? The proble... Jun 6 2005, 08:49 AM

wyogold QUOTE (djellison @ Jun 6 2005, 08:49 AM)MRO i... Jun 8 2005, 05:27 AM

edstrick One of the things used to "aize" the res... Jun 8 2005, 06:55 AM

RNeuhaus According to the picture which shows the right lin... Jun 8 2005, 04:45 PM

helvick QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Jun 8 2005, 05:45 PM)So Opp... Jun 8 2005, 05:36 PM

Tesheiner Follow the "Blueberry Road" (SW) or ... Jun 9 2005, 10:21 AM

djellison Thing is - Erebus and Erebus highway are probably ... Jun 9 2005, 12:11 PM

Tesheiner In such a case, we should be near the "Hell o... Jun 9 2005, 12:22 PM

Phil Stooke This is the 360 pan: http://www.unmannedspaceflig... Jun 9 2005, 12:27 PM

Tesheiner Thanks Phil. Looking to those images it is still ... Jun 10 2005, 09:55 AM

Bill Harris So at present we appear to be near the contact bet... Jun 10 2005, 11:15 AM

Tesheiner Actually on D. This picture below is the one from... Jun 10 2005, 12:14 PM

avkillick It looks like there is some ways to go before Oppy... Jun 10 2005, 03:19 PM

djellison I think they'll try and get to a progress comp... Jun 10 2005, 03:55 PM

RNeuhaus Hope that Opportunity's travel would be like a... Jun 10 2005, 07:27 PM

dot.dk The result of a weeks planning... ½ meter forward ... Jun 10 2005, 07:34 PM

sapodilla QUOTE (dot.dk @ Jun 10 2005, 09:34 PM)The res... Jun 10 2005, 08:40 PM

garybeau QUOTE (dot.dk @ Jun 10 2005, 02:34 PM)The res... Jun 10 2005, 09:55 PM

ilbasso Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there... Jun 10 2005, 08:53 PM

OWW And why drive further if the plan is to investigat... Jun 10 2005, 10:21 PM

Jeff7 Any update yet on the stuck front left wheel? I do... Jun 11 2005, 01:44 PM

Pando QUOTE (ObsessedWithWorlds @ Jun 10 2005, 03:2... Jun 11 2005, 10:01 PM

dot.dk QUOTE (Pando @ Jun 11 2005, 10:01 PM)But ther... Jun 11 2005, 10:26 PM

Jeff7 If it dangles freely though, it might not make for... Jun 12 2005, 02:54 PM

dvandorn As I recall from Spirit's wheel problems, thou... Jun 12 2005, 05:13 PM

Jeff7 QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jun 12 2005, 12:13 PM)As I ... Jun 12 2005, 10:25 PM

dvandorn Yes -- as I understand it, they moved the wheel fr... Jun 13 2005, 07:04 AM

Phil Stooke Here's a sketch of the Opportunity route in ... Jun 12 2005, 05:56 PM

dot.dk I'm not talking about the bad right front whee... Jun 12 2005, 07:06 PM

mars_armer QUOTE (dot.dk @ Jun 12 2005, 07:06 PM)Spirit ... Jun 12 2005, 10:10 PM

dot.dk Oppy finally starting to turn around http://qt... Jun 14 2005, 10:20 PM

Astrophil http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...V4P19... Jun 15 2005, 12:14 AM

dilo QUOTE (Astrophil @ Jun 15 2005, 12:14 AM)What... Jun 15 2005, 01:09 AM

Bill Harris QUOTE Meanwhile, here the funny animated sequence ... Jun 15 2005, 03:11 AM

Tesheiner And here we have a navcam pano taken yesterday (So... Jun 15 2005, 08:35 AM

JES Looking at post 28 photo by Tesheiner, I get more ... Jun 16 2005, 04:06 PM

Pando And there are two to the left of Purgatory as well... Jun 15 2005, 09:02 PM

Tesheiner QUOTE (Pando @ Jun 15 2005, 11:02 PM)And ther... Jun 16 2005, 08:22 AM

ilbasso From this angle, it seems like Oppy got stuck when... Jun 16 2005, 12:14 AM

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