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[djellison]

http://marswatch.astro.cornell.edu/merweb/merweb.pl

Using that - you can see that Spirit is FINE - and has been imaging a LOT

Sol Expected EDRs Actual EDRs %EDRs Down # EDRs Marked Bad # DPs Created # DPs Marked As Sent # DPs Received (Partial or Full) # Full DPs Received Total DataVol Received (Mb) Total DataVol NOT Received (Mb) Total DP Data ALL
534 238 232 97.48 1 232 232 232 232 194.74 0.00 194.74
535 109 103 94.50 0 103 103 103 103 22.14 0.00 22.14
536 125 140 112.00 0 147 141 140 140 55.78 4.48 60.26
537 469 444 94.67 3 469 427 444 425 187.78 24.99 212.78
538 250 220 88.00 0 251 220 220 220 50.19 31.36 81.55
539 346 240 69.36 0 318 245 242 232 100.08 63.00 163.08
540 366 152 41.53 0 320 0 152 151 9.75 128.10 137.85

444 images in a single sol must be a pancam record - perhaps a lot of EDN images - I dont know - we'll find out soon enough - expect a "1978 images added" on JPL at some point

Same with oppy
514 225 99 44.00 0 185 99 99 99 1.69 36.91 38.59
515 57 57 100.00 0 57 57 57 57 36.79 0.00 36.79
516 76 66 86.84 3 70 66 66 66 37.10 3.20 40.29
517 32 22 68.75 0 26 22 22 22 0.91 3.19 4.10
518 144 159 110.42 0 174 159 159 159 4.23 6.93 11.15
519 132 104 78.79 0 162 104 104 104 1.39 1.80 3.19
520 33 42 127.27 0 42 0 42 42 0.58 0.00 0.58
521 6 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00


So whilst we're not getting any news from 'home' (sometimes I almost swop my reality so 'home' is where the rovers are ) we can see that there is activity going on, and data coming home.

Someone more up to speed on site-numbers and drive-numbers could actually see if any driving has gone on as well

Doug

[edstrick]

3 things about "Ultreya"

First, the name will never be used outside "crank" circles.

Second. As MGS images that don't saturate it black in the raw data or the press release versions clearly and unambiguously show, there's no deep pit or hole or cavern there.

Third. Comparison with dark dominantly basaltic sand accumulations in places like Bonneville crater and other sheltered sand deposits in other craters, especially northeast of the hills in a heavily dust-devil stripped region shows that there is utterly and totally nothing remarkable or unusual about the albedo, morphology, or location (in sheltered south-east lee-sides of topographic features) of this feature.

I'm far more interested in things like "Home Plate" and wait for views of this possibly lakebed sedimentary or even evaporite sedimentary deposit with bated breath.

[djellison]

First, the name will never be used outside "crank" circles.

Well - in the same way that I called Erebus ' Albert ' for months - in the absence of a name coming out of the MER team - there's nothing wrong with calling it Ultreya.

I agree with your conclusions on what it might be though. I'm not expecting anything amazing - but there is a cool factor in just seing what's around the corner.

Doug