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[stewjack]

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
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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.
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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

[Tman]

Thought you are away.

Great!!!

[Tesheiner]

More navcam pics after last drive (sol 655) have been downlinked.
Some of them are still missing so the mosaic is not yet a full 360 deg.

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[mhoward]

It's weird being on the other side of the hill.

[odave]

So when do we take the "hard right" and start towards home plate?

[Nix]

Yes it is Michael, I feel the same -with the steep slope towards HH, I bet this would make another good 360!

Hello team? Any chance for that?

Here's the northward view of sol 656, 3 frames, using the anti-vignetting tool by Michael T.


sol 656 - 1x3 - left navcam 8-bit + MTAV-tool

Nico

[RNeuhaus]

The both north and south side looks interesting and from this point would be hard for me to decide where to go. But anyway, Spirit must go to South side since it has favourable titling for winter term.

Rodolfo

[Joffan]

Here's the northward view of sol 656, 3 frames, using the anti-vignetting tool by Michael T. 
Nico

That's gorgeous - thanks Nico

[MichaelT]

Here's the northward view of sol 656, 3 frames, using the anti-vignetting tool by Michael T. 

Very well done A beautiful view.

Michael

[jvandriel]

Here is a 360 degree panoramic view of Spirit on Haskin Ridge.

Without the summit of Husband Hill. ( To dark for autostitch )

Taken on Sol 655 with the L0 navcam.

jvandriel

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[Guest_Sunspot_*]

I noticed this in the Pancam Data website:

654 p2745.03 0 0 0 15 1 16 pancam_nighttime_Odyssey_L1

Could this be a picture of Odyssey?

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/pa...BMP2745L1M1.JPG

Although there appear to be 2 streaks side by side.

[djellison]

I dont think it's Odyssey in that image as one of those two streaks - they can be seen moving quite slowly in the preceeding frames along with many other objects, suggesting they're bright stars or perhaps even planets. It would be a cool observation to see Odyssey - BUT - it's at a 4am / 4pm orbit, and so it either, I imagine, in full sun during the day, or eclipsed at night - but perhaps there's some overlap - I dont know

However, it may be that they just scheduled some imaging in conjunction with Odyssey, and not some imaging OF Odyssey


Doug

[MahFL]

I have lost sight of "home plate" on the latest panarama's, is it still visible and where is it ?
Thanks.

[Tesheiner]

Here it is.



The original image is http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...0P0685L0M1.HTML

[jvandriel]

Bedrock on Haskin Ridge.

A panoramic view taken on Sol 656 with the L7 pancam.

jvandriel

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[MahFL]

Thank you, I eventually realised the views were to the North of Haskin Ridge. Any idea which Sol Spirit will start heading towards Home Plate, presumably for the duration of the Mars Winter ?