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Post Solar Conjunction/Santorini Study Drive, The second leg in our Journey to Endeavor Crater |
 Mar 5 2009, 02:06 PM
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This deserves an inline post:
 Sol 1783 : January 29, 2009 -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Mar 5 2009, 02:12 PM
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QUOTE (Poolio @ Mar 5 2009, 02:05 PM)  I also think we saw a short drive yesterday, about 35m to the SSW. Can someone verify? Correct. Sol 1816 ~40m SSW from a quick check of the tracking data -------------------- |
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Mar 5 2009, 03:03 PM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Mar 5 2009, 09:06 AM) This deserves an inline post: Sol 1783 : January 29, 2009 And you can see her tracks, too!
(tracks indicated by yellow arrows) -Mike -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Mar 5 2009, 03:09 PM
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QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Mar 5 2009, 02:12 PM) Correct. Sol 1816 ~40m SSW from a quick check of the tracking data That puts us somewhere around here:
(ustrax's machiavelic laugh can be heard over at Meridiani...) Where are you Tesheiner?  Come on Oppy! Two weeks to reach Porcupine, I bet you'll do it!  Amazing HiRISE image btw...you can clearly see the mast shadow...I think... 
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Mar 5 2009, 03:14 PM
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What's amazing is how hard the tracks are to see in most of the HiRISE image - I can see some leaving Victoria - then they go - then I can pick them up for the last few metres.
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Mar 5 2009, 03:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721 |
Rui, any chance of seeing those incriminating photos you have of Paolo and the other drivers? They are clearly under your control.
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Mar 5 2009, 03:51 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Brian...here's Paolo's prima colazione...
 
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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Mar 5 2009, 06:01 PM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ Mar 5 2009, 04:09 PM) Where are you Tesheiner? Still here, but I'm a bit busy this whole week. |
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Mar 5 2009, 09:17 PM
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We don't know at which point around Endeavour's rim Oppy will "arrive" - but we have the next best thing..!
Tell us, o mage -- whereabouts on your predicted route map is your definition of "arrival at Endeavour"? * this one's dedicated to anyone who doubts their abilities with graphics software - see! someone's FAR more inept than you are...!
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Viva software libre! |
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Mar 5 2009, 09:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4280 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
I did a comparision between Opportunity in this latest HiRISE image with a picture I use internally to "fine-tune" the rover's position at a given site/sol in the map. What I usually do once the post-drive navcam images are available is to create a mosaic in polar projection and attempt to registrate it in this "map" I keep internally at full (25cm/pix) resolution.
I added the map-projected picture with the rover as a semi-transparent layer trying to match the background of both images and here's the result. Not bad. 
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Mar 5 2009, 10:00 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
 imipak, remember me to hire you as my PR when I start my clairvoyant phone line... And, my friend, the mage spoke more than a year ago...  On another note...while trying to find that pot linked above I almost brought myself to tears with my own words...talk about self-inflicted epic-onwardism...  Who would say we would be here tosol...I mean...besides me?
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Mar 5 2009, 10:48 PM
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I have a confession to make ..... that I always get nervous when I see pics of Oppy crossing dunes, despite the fact that a very smart team has calculated the risks.
Coming from a place where I do 100s and 100s kms of driving with not a metre of bitumen in site, I know just how easy it is to get bogged.... even for the most experienced drivers. For us, it's just get on the Sat phone and, at the worst, wait a day or so. For Oppy, the tow truck would take about 8 months to arrive ---- providing Congress approved the towing bill immediately! But love those HiRise pics, despite the 700 Mgs of download. |
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Mar 6 2009, 12:44 AM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ Mar 5 2009, 11:00 PM) On another note...while trying to find that pot linked above I almost brought myself to tears with my own words.. You know what, Rui? Reading it again, I say, I remember very well this very message. Isn't it what we're about nowaday? 
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Mar 6 2009, 03:43 AM
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Hmmm. A dune that doesn't line up with the others.
Note windstreaks at base of dune. Different wind local? or the first sign of the "confusion" zone that can be seen at the southern end of the HiRise crop? -Mike -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Mar 6 2009, 05:05 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721 |
Look out, Oppy, it's a purgatoid!
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