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[general]

From an article in the "Cornell Daily Sun" newspaper:
http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/...4/430bf1e61df0d

"Spirit will now take pictures of the surrounding landscape to look for other craters or peaks before moving on in early autumn."

"Early autumn..." That's more than a month from now

[general]

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050826_summit_news.html :


"The strategy at the summit is to use all of the rover’s instruments to observe the soils, rocks, and atmosphere, including observations of Mars’ two moons – Phobos and Deimos.

Then we may move to the south side of the summit to get a full resolution image of the basin to the south. We hope to study the peculiar feature, Home Plate, in the future, as well as get some good images of the possible pathway down the hill to the basin."

Following that, the rover will likely wheel back, possibly to the absolute summit to do more camera work, including scanning back at Larry’s Lookout in the valley to the north. Along the circuit, rover science team members will examine rock targets as they appear of interest. Next, in many sols (Mars days) to come no doubt, the robot will start down the east side of Husband Hill."

[ustrax]

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050826_summit_news.html :
"The strategy at the summit is to use all of the rover’s instruments to observe the soils, rocks, and atmosphere, including observations of Mars’ two moons – Phobos and Deimos.

Then we may move to the south side of the summit to get a full resolution image of the basin to the south. We hope to study the peculiar feature, Home Plate, in the future, as well as get some good images of the possible pathway down the hill to the basin."

Following that, the rover will likely wheel back, possibly to the absolute summit to do more camera work, including scanning back at Larry’s Lookout in the valley to the north. Along the circuit, rover science team members will examine rock targets as they appear of interest. Next, in many sols (Mars days) to come no doubt, the robot will start down the east side of Husband Hill."

EAST!