Spirit's New Adventures, The Mission Beyond 1000 Sols Options

[fredk]

We've had similar views before. I think the drops are adhesives used in the construction.

[deglr6328]

I know the gully/water news is exciting but let's don't go crazy kids. They are indeed just epoxy adhesive and solder weld dots on the panel joints.

[SteveM]

I know the gully/water news is exciting but let's don't go crazy kids. They are indeed just epoxy adhesive and solder weld dots on the panel joints.

Thanks for the link; here's an enhanced version of the image on that page for comparison.

The drops were there on sol 350.

Steve

[Marz]

Thanks for the link; here's an enhanced version of the image on that page for comparison.

The drops were there on sol 350.

Steve

Ack! I'm so embarrassed! I remember those epoxy drops now, but when viewing the MI today I just tricked myself into thinking it overlayed dust grains. Sorry for the false alarm.

[jvandriel]

Here is the 360 degree panoramic view taken on Sol 1039

with the L0 Navcam.

jvandriel

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[Phil Stooke]

Here is jvandriel's latest pan in polar format.

Phil

[Guest_Sunspot_*]

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/pre.../20061213a.html

Data from the rover's Mössbauer spectrometer provides evidence that they have an enhanced amount of the mineral hematite relative to surrounding soils.

[Greg Hullender]

My gosh, how long does an integration take now? I seem to remember that the radioisotope that drives the spectrometer had only a 90-day halflife, so it would seem to need 1000x more time than it used to.

Or did they do this one integration all during the winter? :-)

--Greg

[djellison]

It's actually more like 200-and-something days.... so we're looking at integrations of 4 days instead of 12 hours.

Doug

[ustrax]

Some worries and a water ice cloud over Spirit...Where?!

[vikingmars]

Some worries and a water ice cloud over Spirit...Where?!

I think they think of this image (clouds in upper right corner)
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...42P1312R0M1.JPG

[Tesheiner]

I haven't seen here any panorama from sol 1041, so I'll post mine.



I used it (actually a polar version) to refine the last plot on the route map. I find the correlation between the ground image (rover's navcam) and the orbital one (HiRISE) is so good that I made this picture below matching some rocks on both images. I could continue matching other rocks but those are more then enough! The

... and the current rover's position is quite obvious.



Edited: The scale for the HiRISE image background is 3.33 cm/pix.

[RobertEB]

Has Spirit found blueberries?

[Shaka]

Good question! What does "enhanced hematite" translate to re the concentrations in blueberries (which could be well over 50%)? Have any of the Meridiani concretions shown the glossy surface that is apparent on King George granules - before or after RAT brushing? I assumed that these granules were reworked but chemically unaltered basaltic sand. If they are more akin to blueberries, the theorists will have a field day working out a microcosm of Meridiani evaporite sandstone diagenesis here in this little corner of Gusev Crater. I wish them luck!

[helvick]

I could continue matching other rocks but those are more then enough!

Wow. I know that I have to stop being amazed by the quality of the HiRISE imagery at some stage but the fact that you can do this is astonishing. Those really are pretty small rocks. Wow.