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[Nirgal]

Some may think that this is just another pothole on the Road to Endeavour, but I still think it's worthy of a photo

Astro0

Beautiful one, Astro0 !

[jamescanvin]

An update gleaned from the PDT:

Second part of the Ranger pan tosol (to make a 15x2) then driving the sol after next (1780).

[climber]

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Is it me or the images processing by our wizards has improved THAT much ?

[climber]

An update gleaned from the PDT:

Second part of the Ranger pan tosol (to make a 15x2) then driving the sol after next (1780).

I guess we're in restricted sols these days

[jamescanvin]

I don't think you can say that based on this plan, as we stopped to image Ranger anyway. No driving on sol 1789 is likely a result of it being the weekend, restricted or not she could still have driven on that sol.

Of course we could be in restricted sols, I have completely lost track of when they fall.

[climber]

I agree James.
Nevertheless I was (also) refering to this post: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=127527 (mine actually) that was ok till conjunction but could have drifted ever since.

[glennwsmith]

That is so damned cool, to be able to image a small crater (Ranger) from orbit and then drive right up to it! And again, this is exactly what Mars should look like -- a barren plain dotted with small craters!!! Tesheiner, Astro0, et al, thanks!

[mhoward]

We've moved south. Bye-bye, Ranger.

Here's an anaglyph mosaic of the Pancam drive direction view south on Sol 1780:

[Tesheiner]

Great!
Comparing the pictures taken from the current site with previous ones, specially the navcams, I have the impression that the ripples are becoming smaller again. Have a look to the map too and scroll down from sol 1780's position.

[Nirgal]

Great!
Comparing the pictures taken from the current site with previous ones, specially the navcams, I have the impression that the ripples are becoming smaller again.

Yup ! I'm hoping to resume our pre-conjunction 100+ meters-per-sol driving regime soon ...

However, I'm a bit concernd about a remark I read sometime ago, that due to the new Odysee passing times, Oppys daily driving window will be significantly restricted such that we can no longer do long single-sol drives. Could some one of the rover experts confirm this ?

[djellison]

No reason why they couldn't carry on driving past the comms pass. It would mean a restricted-sols type situation for the end-drive location, but it would mean a longer drive if it was possible/required.

Doug

[RoverDriver]

Except that later in the day we might have issues with post-drive imaging (yes that can be taken on the subsequent sol) and if autonav is used, driving with very little light can make things a bit difficult. I'm not sure about the impact on ambient temperature at that time of day.

Paolo

[djellison]

I wasn't proposing post-drive imaging any later than it normally is, but we did read somewhere that MODY was being shifted to earlier in the day so that it wouldn't be fortuitously overhead at a normal 'done for the day' sort of time anymore.

[RoverDriver]

I wasn't proposing post-drive imaging any later than it normally is, but we did read somewhere that MODY was being shifted to earlier in the day so that it wouldn't be fortuitously overhead at a normal 'done for the day' sort of time anymore.

The times I heard there would not be much time post-ODY. Moreover, the drive happening post-ODY should check what happened in the drive pre-ODY. There are certain conditions which would be difficult to check/predict at the the time of sequencing. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it would make my life miserable ;-) I also know full well I have to get ready for this since it will likely happen on MSL as well (=drive sequences broken up in different time segments).

Paolo

[jamescanvin]

Mosaic taken on 1773 named 'Pavement Textures' on the PDT site.



James