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Out The Crater.., on to the Heatshield
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post Dec 12 2004, 09:11 PM
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Just thought I'd start a new thread dedicated to crater - to - heatshield fun smile.gif

We SHOULD see Oppy out of it's hole in the next 12 hours or so!

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post Dec 12 2004, 10:41 PM
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Waiting...
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post Dec 12 2004, 10:46 PM
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A watched file listing never updates tongue.gif Andy anyway - your ctrl and r button will wear out biggrin.gif

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post Dec 12 2004, 11:02 PM
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We are out of Endurance !!!
Way to go !!!

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...00P1201R0M1.JPG
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post Dec 12 2004, 11:03 PM
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And we are out!

Wohoo!


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post Dec 12 2004, 11:03 PM
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OUT!!!


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post Dec 12 2004, 11:08 PM
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Ohh - such sweet, flat, WONDEROUS driving terratory smile.gif



I wonder how the power situation will change there. On the southern inside of the crater near Burns cliff - it was north tilted and got good power - on the easter edge - it got western tilt and now, on the outside of the western edge - it gets western tilt. Would be interesting to see how many WHr's it's getting now

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post Dec 12 2004, 11:13 PM
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Champagne is in order !!! I'm dancing on my chair biggrin.gif
A big big thank you to everybody at Nasa for giving us such moments of joy !!
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post Dec 12 2004, 11:24 PM
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Going on the image time- it would appear that Oppy was re-born at 18:25 GMT today.

That's 322 days and 12 hrs since it's very first image - which was taken on Sol 1 at 14:47 local. It is now Sol 315 - Opportunity has outlived its design life by 225 sols, or 350% ohmy.gif

Pando - I dont know if a special rush was put on getting those to the Exploratorium pages - but if it was ( or even if it wasnt ) can you give your 'contact' a very big thankyou on behalf of all of us!

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post Dec 12 2004, 11:26 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 12 2004, 11:24 PM)
That's 322 days and 12 hrs since it's very first image - which was taken on Sol 1 at 14:47 local. It is now Sol 315 - Opportunity has outlived its design life by 225 sols, or 350%

And still plenty of juice in the old girl yet!
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post Dec 12 2004, 11:51 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 12 2004, 10:46 PM)
A watched file listing never updates tongue.gif Andy anyway - your ctrl and r button will wear out biggrin.gif

Doug

biggrin.gif yayyyyyyyyyyyy biggrin.gif Great News

p.s. you ought to download an extension for the FireFox browser called "ReloadEvery" it will automatically reload a page at a user specified interval. Not sure if the link below will work, but posting it anyway smile.gif

https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/morei...id=115&vid=1131
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post Dec 12 2004, 11:52 PM
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These Rovers must be one of the most successful missions and one with most bang for the buck smile.gif

Now Oppy is go for the heatshield and then she can really strecth her legs on the way to the etched terrain and hopefully Victoria Crater wink.gif


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post Dec 13 2004, 12:21 AM
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Can't wait to see that thing biggrin.gif



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post Dec 13 2004, 12:26 AM
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.......I bet they could reach the heatshield in a single days drive if they really wanted to wink.gif
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post Dec 13 2004, 12:29 AM
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Here is the beeline to the heatshield:

Oppy could be there tomorrow, but I guess they are going to do the panorama first.
They might even move half a metre back to get a better view for the panorama.


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