Post Solar Conjunction/Santorini Study Drive, The second leg in our Journey to Endeavor Crater |
Post Solar Conjunction/Santorini Study Drive, The second leg in our Journey to Endeavor Crater |
Mar 29 2009, 01:50 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107 |
Hoped so
Just got uncomfortable with that sticky wheel and all. -------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
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Mar 29 2009, 03:28 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
Yes, maybe some smileys would have been appropriate. It was a joke hinting at all this time sitting still and the 1820 drive.
So, here are the smileys: Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Apr 1 2009, 11:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4256 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
From the latest Planetary Society update, some more details about the sol 1820 drive:
QUOTE Turns out actually, the error emanated from those multi-sol feasibility studies. It was an inadvertent goof, a human error. “We forgot we had set the rover to only allow straightforward arcs, so she drove forward," Laubach explained. "While we were intending to drive backward to Resolution Crater, Opportunity ended up driving straightforward instead, because, actually, that was the only way that we allowed her to drive."
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Apr 2 2009, 04:18 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1057 Joined: 17-February 09 Member No.: 4605 |
Lots of big berries and apparent dessication cracking in the bedrock. During the traverse has Opportunity lost elevation to around Eagle / Endurance crater levels?
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Apr 2 2009, 08:24 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
I'd say the RF lubricant may be ok by now
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Apr 2 2009, 12:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721 |
Hey, hey! It's OK to be a back seat driver but not an armchair mechanic.
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Apr 2 2009, 02:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
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Apr 3 2009, 09:40 AM
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Apr 3 2009, 09:41 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
I've just checked the pancam web to look for any indication of leaving this area during the weekend.
None for the time being, but it looks like the big 360º "Resolution Pan" has already finished so we might be leaving soon. Perhaps it will be time to move to a new thread... |
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Apr 3 2009, 11:15 AM
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Apr 6 2009, 09:54 AM
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The old girl has to take her time .... Yes and that's ok for the aged lady After all it's like a miracle that she is still functional at all after all those years ! Question to the Rover Experts/Driver: Now that she has to take more time with the driving tasks too (i.e. with the worn RF wheel 50 m/sol plus resting sols as opposed to 100 m/sol) are there plans to do the more time consuming tasks like weeks-long Moessbauer integrations somewhat less often, i.e. only every other routine sampling stop or so ... in exchange for more driving Sols ? (At least that's how I interpreted the "Endeavour-Strategy" as communicated at the beginning of the year when we left Victoria and made some very impressive progress during the first couple of weeks) |
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Apr 6 2009, 04:26 PM
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Apr 6 2009, 05:25 PM
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l.o.l.
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Apr 6 2009, 06:34 PM
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Apr 7 2009, 12:42 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 934 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
Seriously, I can't quite figure out the perspective and shadowing. That one unshadowed ground region that looks like it touches the solar panel, and the shadow that makes the rest of the solar panel look like the panel is about a half inch off the ground--really wild.
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