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Haskin Ridge, The Eastern Route Down to the Basin

stewjack View Member Profile	Oct 6 2005, 05:59 AM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 252 Joined: 5-May 05 From: Mississippi (USA) Member No.: 379	Now that we know where we are going, I thought we could use a topic about our future route. I hope that a few images will get the rover rolling - downhill. READY START BACKGROUND ------ From Steve Squyres Misson Update Octoberber 4, 2005 Extending eastward from the summit of Husband Hill is a broad ridge that we've named Haskin Ridge. It trends ENE from the summit, does a little dog-leg to the right, and then trends ESE for a bit. Right at the dog-leg there's a pretty steep step, which we're not certain we can get down. So we're going to descend the upper portion of the ridge, right to where the step is, and assess the situation. If we can see a safe route, then we'll continue down onto the lower portion of Haskin Ridge. ------ My Image of Haskin Ridge I tried to get the best image of Haskin ridge that was available, and this is a crop from a true color TIFF summit panorama, located on the the Cornell Pancam web site. I converted the tif file to a gif file to save some download time. Warning : File Size : 1.7 MB Cornell True Color Pan of Haskin Ridge Reference WEB page of Husband Hill Summit Panorama Warning: File Size : 80 MB !!!! Preliminary Spirit Pancam of "Husband Hill Summit" Panorama Jack PS If you can't see the "steep step" that Squyres mentions - try this orbital image. I believe that the "steep step" is the dark shadow cutting across the ridge that is located directly under the word CRATER. I think that it is also visible in the true color pancam image, but it is less obvious. Orbital View of Husband Hill and Basin

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Tesheiner

Nov 1 2005, 02:23 PM

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Yes I can, Tman.

Here is a very raw combo of the center navcam, including the arrow/path, and your pancam pano.

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Tman View Member Profile	Nov 1 2005, 03:30 PM Post #182
Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186	Yeah, it seems now your yellow path is nearly the best - also visible now in the Pancams. That's great it should be so easy now! A long way round had cost many of Spirit valuable sols. In the meantime (after intensive search ) I found it too and made a short GIF of it: (1,4 MB full-res.) http://www.greuti.ch/spirit/spirit_sol649.gif -------------------- Peter MER filename decoding into local true solar time - MSL clock and filename decoding

mhoward View Member Profile	Nov 1 2005, 04:15 PM Post #183
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98	QUOTE (Tman @ Nov 1 2005, 08:59 AM) Can anybody find a match between the sol 649 Navcams and Pancams? 120 degree view centered on the rover drive axis direction Closeup of the Sol 649 Pancam images in Navcam context

djellison View Member Profile	Nov 2 2005, 01:04 AM Post #184
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jamescanvin View Member Profile	Nov 2 2005, 02:14 AM Post #185
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16	QUOTE (djellison @ Nov 2 2005, 11:04 AM) http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...6_3x1_South.jpg (580kb) Good to see you've started to address the S1K problem -------------------- Twitter Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here

djellison View Member Profile	Nov 2 2005, 02:16 AM Post #186
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	Thought I would given that I'm now on my new laptop... oh, did I not mention it.. My UBER LAPTOP WITH 17" 1920x1200 screen oh BABY Yup - trying to keep things a bit more organised, it was highly eclectic on 'Geri' (my old laptop) but it's all a bit more organised on FatBoySlilm (my new laptop) I decided that allowing for the S10K bug would be silly. Doug

dot.dk View Member Profile	Nov 2 2005, 02:26 AM Post #187
Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107	QUOTE (djellison @ Nov 2 2005, 02:16 AM) Thought I would given that I'm now on my new laptop... I decided that allowing for the S10K bug would be silly. Doug I think your new laptop will be somewhat outdated before the S10K bug comes around -------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like" - Steven Squyres

vikingmars

Nov 2 2005, 12:44 PM

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...Well, leaving the mass for "All Saints day" yesterday morning in our village in Burgundy, I saw a strange hole on a rock. It was real : was a MER rover there ?

==> Thanks again to this wonderful UnmannedSpaceflight site and his nice management (AlexBlackwell and Doug) !

(answer : a road signpost was removed recently)

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TheChemist

Nov 2 2005, 02:09 PM

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Any guesses on what was written on this "recently removed road signpost" on Haskin ridge ?

Sol 648 Pancam

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RNeuhaus View Member Profile	Nov 2 2005, 02:20 PM Post #190
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385	The light color and rounded stone is an interesting thing and it is worth to inspect it since it is very, very different than the rest. It looks like an eroded stone by water since it has no sharp edges. Rodolfo

TheChemist View Member Profile	Nov 2 2005, 02:28 PM Post #191
Member Group: Members Posts: 524 Joined: 24-November 04 From: Heraklion, GR. Member No.: 112	Unfortunately, Spirit rolled literally beside this rock around Sol 638-639, and is now locatedmuch lower on the ridge. I haven't located any close up images of it (anyone else ?), and I think it was not studied with the instruments.

odave View Member Profile	Nov 2 2005, 02:43 PM Post #192
Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209	QUOTE (TheChemist @ Nov 2 2005, 09:09 AM) Any guesses on what was written on this "recently removed road signpost" on Haskin ridge ? -------------------- --O'Dave

Tman View Member Profile	Nov 2 2005, 03:07 PM Post #193
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general View Member Profile	Nov 2 2005, 03:14 PM Post #194
Member Group: Members Posts: 236 Joined: 21-June 05 Member No.: 417	QUOTE (TheChemist @ Nov 2 2005, 03:09 PM) Any guesses on what was written on this "recently removed road signpost" on Haskin ridge ? Attached image(s)

alan View Member Profile	Nov 2 2005, 11:13 PM Post #195
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110	I don't see any road hazards ahead http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/na...BMP1908L0M1.JPG

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