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mhoward View Member Profile	Mar 6 2009, 09:43 PM Post #166
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3214 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98	Spirit sols 1837 & 1839 - two positions combined into one Navcam panorama. QuickTime VR version (2.7MB) Kind of tells the whole story after Winter Haven, to date. Well almost, anyway; it doesn't capture the turn on sol 1839.

Tesheiner View Member Profile	Mar 6 2009, 09:44 PM Post #167
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4177 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253	Today's downlink has really nice pictures; the atmosphere is quite clear making the view of the walls of Gusev crater really beautiful. (Stu, you will like those ones) http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/navcam/2009-03-06/ What puzzles me is that these navcam images taken after a drive are usually pointing towards the planned path, so ... are we no longer going to the NE corner but to the West Valley?

mhoward View Member Profile	Mar 6 2009, 09:48 PM Post #168
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3214 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98	I'm guessing they wanted to capture a whole Navcam pan, but also needed to keep moving.

Tesheiner View Member Profile	Mar 7 2009, 09:59 AM Post #169
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4177 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253	You are right. It looks like that mosaic wasn't taken for drive planning purposes. And looking to today's imaging plan, the drive attempts by the NE path keep going. 01841::p0665::03::10::0::0::10::0::20::navcam_5x1_az_108_3_bpp 01841::p1201::22::2::0::0::2::0::4::front_haz_penultimate_1_bpp_pri_17 01841::p1214::05::2::0::0::2::0::4::front_hazcam_ultimate_4_bpp 01841::p1301::09::2::0::0::2::0::4::penultimate_rear_hazcam_pri_17 01841::p1314::00::2::0::0::2::0::4::rear_haz_ultimate_4bpp_pri15

Ant103 View Member Profile	Mar 7 2009, 12:27 PM Post #170
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1146 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Marseille - FR Member No.: 678	A little old, but a pano on the very dusty solar panels of Spirit -------------------- Marsrovers Images - db-prods.net

vikingmars View Member Profile	Mar 7 2009, 10:51 PM Post #171
Member Group: Members Posts: 488 Joined: 19-February 05 From: France, close to Paris (& 5mn drive from Meudon Observatory) Member No.: 172	FULL INLINE QUOTE REMOVED - ADMIN Welcome back Fourmi 103 !!!

Ant103 View Member Profile	Mar 7 2009, 11:49 PM Post #172
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1146 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Marseille - FR Member No.: 678	Wow, Olivier en personne who said me welcome back! Thanks Sol 1837 mosaic, toward the Gusev's flats : -------------------- Marsrovers Images - db-prods.net

climber View Member Profile	Mar 8 2009, 12:23 AM Post #173
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2566 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682	Peut être moins "spectaculaire", mais j'apprécie aussi beaucoup le retour... C'est bien ça le "Big event", eh? Hi to Olivier, aussi... -------------------- My Blog

BrianL View Member Profile	Mar 9 2009, 04:00 AM Post #174
Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721	Oh, this doesn't look promising.

lyford View Member Profile	Mar 9 2009, 04:26 AM Post #175
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1260 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124	Poor Spirit - having to work for every meter these days.... -------------------- Lyford Rome "Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test

Norm Hartnett View Member Profile	Mar 9 2009, 04:53 PM Post #176
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 12-November 06 Member No.: 1354	QUOTE (Ant103 @ Mar 7 2009, 04:49 PM) Sol 1837 mosaic, toward the Gusev's flats : All these panaramas of Gusev by Spirit over the last few years remind me of something I read half a century ago. "I seemed to be lying in a deep, circular basin, along the outer verge of which I could distinguish the irregularities of low hills." John Carter of Mars as related by Edgar Rice Burroughs in "A Princess of Mars" - 1912.

vikingmars View Member Profile	Mar 11 2009, 11:06 AM Post #177
Member Group: Members Posts: 488 Joined: 19-February 05 From: France, close to Paris (& 5mn drive from Meudon Observatory) Member No.: 172	Oui, Climber et Fourmi 103, j'apprécie bcp votre travail sur Mars, d'autant plus que je suis actuellement assez indisponible pour ça, étant -comme vs le savez- sur la Lune... et prépare activement le prochain Paris Air Show sur le thème Apollo avec l'AéCF !

Mar 11 2009, 01:25 PM

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Okay Olivier

, ça fait plaisir

So, I've made a trip on Mars to clean the solar panel, it's not perfect but I think it's good

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BrianL View Member Profile	Mar 11 2009, 03:59 PM Post #179
Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721	http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/...EOP1314R0M1.JPG I hope the latest mini-move is an attempt at extrication to head west, and not a continued attempt to head NE. This route seems as problematic as the previous ones, and time is running out to get where they want to be and get some good science done before the autumn chill is felt on the breeze. Speaking of which, I wonder what hope there is for the next winter haven. Climbing a 30 degree slope just doesn't look feasible anymore unless they luck upon a very firm or rocky surface at VB/G.

djellison View Member Profile	Mar 11 2009, 05:12 PM Post #180
Administrator Group: Chairman Posts: 13269 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	Hopefully they will be able to find somewhere like they did with WH3 - somewhere you can drive to, then drive 'off' to get a slope. D

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