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What Now?, Leaving West Spur?
Baltic
post Nov 22 2004, 08:35 AM
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I think Spirit has left West Spur an is now between the hills.

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/pa...00P2432R1M1.JPG

What is going on there? huh.gif

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djellison
post Dec 4 2004, 07:53 PM
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Seems normal to me

As it drags the FR wheel behind it, the tendancy will be to turn the whole vehicle to the left. After about a 50cm drive, it then corrects this drift by turning, in situ, to the right - then driving again

so you get

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etc etc ( ignore the . just look at the | and - )

Remember, the tracks you're seing are the FL and FR wheels - which are at the BACK of the rover when it drives.

IT's obviously more common for this to happen on dustier areas than on more pebble ridden areas - as there's less saw-toothing to the tracks from those two rock backwards - but lots of it after that - in a more dusty area

Doug
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- Baltic   What Now?   Nov 22 2004, 08:35 AM
- - Baltic   The "Latest News From Spirit" http://or...   Nov 22 2004, 08:52 AM
- - Sunspot   ....and Opportunity is still trying to reach Burns...   Nov 22 2004, 09:59 AM
- - Baltic   Nice tracks. But where are we going? Why so fast? ...   Nov 24 2004, 01:36 PM
- - OWW   Why so fast? Well, do you see anything interesting...   Nov 24 2004, 02:23 PM
- - Baltic   QUOTE (ObsessedWithWorlds @ Nov 24 2004, 02:2...   Nov 24 2004, 02:44 PM
- - alan   Here is a beautiful panorama of the road ahead fro...   Dec 2 2004, 01:54 AM
- - OWW   What is Spirit doing? Look what those wheels did...   Dec 4 2004, 11:17 AM
- - alan   The first time I saw it do that I thought somethin...   Dec 4 2004, 04:36 PM
- - djellison   Seems normal to me As it drags the FR wheel behin...   Dec 4 2004, 07:53 PM

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