Extricating Spirit, Digging out from Troy Options

[Ant103]

Images up - looks like some great progress.

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/fo...PGP1214R0M1.JPG
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/re...PGP1314R0M1.JPG

WOW !!!

The first picture is totally mindblowing

She IS moving !!!!! Woohoo !

Go Spirit, go!

[JayB]

Couple of 2 frame (2151 & 2154) ani's first is rover locked other is horizon locked. Our girl's rockin' and a rollin'

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[Hungry4info]

I can't express how happy I am! ^.^




Is that the rock that we used to be concerned about?

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[mhoward]

MH - in LocationMetadata_update.csv - what are the various columns left to right?

Ugh, you're making me look at Java for the first time in nearly a year. I think it's:

rover number
site number
drive number
start sol (doesn't seem to be working - eep!)
end sol (also doesn't seem to be working. Who wrote this hack anyway??)
rover_origin_rotation_quaternian_a
rover_origin_rotation_quaternian_b
rover_origin_rotation_quaternian_c
rover_origin_rotation_quaternian_d
rover_origin_offset_vector_a
rover_origin_offset_vector_b
rover_origin_offset_vector_c

[Guest_Oersted_*]

Thx Hungry4Info for those animated gifs!

It looks like rather stunning progress. Maybe after trying in vain to gingerly backtrack out of the quagmire, Spirit is now speeding right through it and charging out in a forward turn, no holds barred?

Would be one of the most amazing tales of interplanetary navigation if she comes out on the other side.

....Just quoting myself from six days back, when the very first signs of progress could be seen, and well before some naysayers started to write off Spirit.

"The little rover that could" has certainly managed to confirm my hopes over the intervening time!

[Hertzeg]

Hertzeg: It's an interesting thought. If sinkage turns out to be a problem as we try driving out, we may end up inadvertantly testing something similar to your suggestion.

Thanks for your answer, fredk.

It seems to me, that happened just that.

[climber]

Von Braun is clearly visible now! I was may be too concentrated on the weels and I didn't noticed before, but this time, it is very visible.
Von Braun, here she comes

[akuo]

Great stuff guys with the updates, keep them coming! Go Spirit go!

[ElkGroveDan]

So the optimist jumps in. Assuming she gets out and is able to actually move with 4 wheels...where are we in the season now? How soon before a winter parking spot needs to be identified?

[NW71]

How soon before a winter parking spot needs to be identified?

Wow! Just got back from a cricket conference all weekend (I know, I know) and I'm thrilled to see the progress Spirit has made.

Following on from the previous post, (and of course making the still massive assumption she extricates herself - with a little help from her drivers etc!) has a precise winter location site for Spirit been announced yet?

Neil

[alan]

where are we in the season now?

A month past equinox, 4 months to winter solstice. Mars seasons here

[OWW]

According to the latest rover update the solar arrays only produce 211 Watt-hours now. I'm surprised it is even able to drive. What is minimum power for drives?

[Julius]

Great news!

[Guest_cassioli_*]

so, are we out?
if not, how far is our "target"?

[Tesheiner]

<fairly optimist mode on>
Assuming Spirit can get out of the trap with four wheels, I think the next winter haven will be exactly here.
I don't see any other nearby place to go.

<fairly optimist mode still on ...>