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Sliding into 'Home Plate North', Heading for Spirit's 2008 Winter Retreat |
 Apr 2 2008, 07:41 PM
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 Special Cookie  Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228  |
QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Apr 2 2008, 06:51 PM)  The rovers have a way of stealing the spotlight from each other. Maybe not political correct but Spirit is my favourite rover...it has always been...  Secretly (well..not anymore...) I hope our baby at Gusev crater to be the last to wave goodbye... man! How is it possible that I got all emotional writing this?!  We are sick people I know...  -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Apr 2 2008, 08:09 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I think they're just doing a systematic survey of the IDD nearfield during the winter to see if the wind moves stuff across the surface, or the vehicle itself settles.
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Apr 2 2008, 09:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721 |
QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Apr 2 2008, 12:51 PM) The rovers have a way of stealing the spotlight from each other. Months from now you may feel sorry for Opportunity as we watch in rapt attention as Spirit approaches the interesting features south of Home Plate. I certainly hope for that, too. Unfortunately, while I have every confidence in Spirit's ability to survive the winter and continue performing valuable science, I have to wonder about her ability to rove. Can she get to those features without having to "drag the anchor" through sand? Beyond that, is the Promised Land still under consideration as a long term target? Maybe this should be a whole new thread. Brian |
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Apr 2 2008, 09:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721 |
QUOTE (ustrax @ Apr 2 2008, 02:41 PM) Maybe not political correct but Spirit is my favourite rover...it has always been... Even if Oppy sets out for Ithaca?  Brian |
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Apr 2 2008, 11:13 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (BrianL @ Apr 2 2008, 10:55 PM) Even if Oppy sets out for Ithaca? Brian Even. Spirit has beaten the hard terrain separating her form the hills. She has taken the hills. She left the hills. She reached Home Plate. She is facing El Dorado. She is as close as we could get from Von Braun and Goddard... She is...beautiful...strong...resistent... She is my beloved one. No imaginary crater can beat that. I'll have Spirit's adventure in my thoughts when I leave this planet, strong but truly tru thoughts from this friend of yours. This sums it all: Gaily bedight,A gallant night In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of El Dorado. -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Apr 7 2008, 03:24 PM
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I have always favored Spirit simply because Gusev more visually intriguing than Meridiani. I am reasonably confident that it will survive the winter and go to Von Braun, which is of course close by. Beyond that, I wonder about its mobility and its ability to survive another winter - if it gets permanently stuck somewhere with the wrong solar panel tilt, it's a goner. Meanwhile, I am excited about the fact that if all goes well, we will have three spacecraft operating on another planet's surface for the first time.
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May 7 2008, 04:28 PM
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Made from today's pancams...
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May 9 2008, 05:16 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Just think what it would be like to wander around here on foot, at leisure, picking up rocks like this one...
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May 10 2008, 02:24 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 350 Joined: 20-June 04 From: Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Member No.: 86 |
Someday someone will do it. But imagining is its own sort of fun
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May 13 2008, 04:27 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4405 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
While walking around in an pressure suit millions of miles from home...no thanks...
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May 13 2008, 04:54 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Couple of pics from today's offerings...
Are there a couple of meteorites down there in those wheel tracks at the bottom..?
... and a lovely view of the slopes...
I'd put up with the pressure suit to spend time in a geological playground like this one, Ted!
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May 13 2008, 09:13 PM
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I'd love to be there suit and all although it would be nice to remove it in the Mars habitat.
The rocks in the tracks could be meteorites or vesicular basalt, hard to tell. Keep up the rocky pictures Stu Roy F |
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May 21 2008, 04:56 AM
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Spirit
sits, dusty, power-deprived, shifting slightly now and then as a few stolen moments let her look at and taste her rusted home. Quiet, but not silent. Not being discussed, but never forgotten. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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May 22 2008, 06:42 AM
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Damn, Doug. That was sweet.
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I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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May 22 2008, 04:36 PM
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I can't believe how the atmosphere has cleaned up!
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