Post Marquette Island, The continuing journey to Endeavour Crater |
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Post Marquette Island, The continuing journey to Endeavour Crater |
 Jan 14 2010, 11:05 PM
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Thanks for pointing that, Jay.
It's the first mention, AFAIK. |
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Jan 15 2010, 04:34 AM
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Perhaps too soon to declare a trend, but the couple of drives since MI are shorter than before. Local terrain limitations, or part of an ongoing strategy to try and keep the wheel problems from reappearing?
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Jan 15 2010, 05:49 AM
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QUOTE (JayB @ Jan 14 2010, 02:52 PM)  @MarsRovers Oppy is making tracks toward a fresh impact crater named Conception, a pit stop on the longer drive to Endeavor Crater. One of Magellan's ships. |
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Jan 15 2010, 03:06 PM
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Jan 15 2010, 08:04 PM
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Sol 2124 navcam pan
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Jan 15 2010, 08:42 PM
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Nice one! Here it is reprojected into a vaguely map-like geometry.
Phil
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Jan 15 2010, 08:52 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
... and slightly closer...
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Jan 15 2010, 08:57 PM
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QUOTE (JayB @ Jan 14 2010, 10:52 PM) @MarsRovers Oppy is making tracks toward a fresh impact crater named Conception, a pit stop on the longer drive to Endeavor Crater. "The casualties suffered in the Philippines left the expedition with too few men to sail all three of the remaining ships. Consequently, on May 2 they abandoned Concepción and burned the ship." I hope Oppy has no pyromaniac instincts and leave leave the place way before May 2...hell! On May 2 I hope to at Endeavour watching the views with a nice cold beer on my hand...  -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jan 15 2010, 09:21 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Jan 15 2010, 09:52 PM) ... and slightly closer... 230m to go.  
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Jan 17 2010, 09:25 AM
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Been busy - away for work - and good to come back and see that Oppy is moving again......and also all the good pics! Here's a quick stitch/colourization of Nav Cam pics on Sol 2126 (Sat 16 Jan 2010). The tracks move onwards zig zagging through the dunes..... love it!
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Jan 17 2010, 11:19 AM
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Sol 2125 drive direction in color. The rocks of Fresh Crater are very clear now
Tens of Marquette-like rocks ?
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Jan 17 2010, 08:36 PM
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QUOTE (Ant103 @ Jan 17 2010, 03:19 AM) Sol 2125 drive direction in color. The rocks of Fresh Crater are very clear now Tens of Marquette-like rocks ?Most of those rocks are most likely blasted-out chunks of the Meridiani substrate. However, if a few shards are Marquette-Island-like, that would be very interesting... Hope for a cleaning blast on the Mini-TES... |
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Jan 17 2010, 09:36 PM
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QUOTE (MarkG @ Jan 17 2010, 09:36 PM) Hope for a cleaning blast on the Mini-TES... ... and on the solar panels too. The power levels are not that low as for Spirit but these 336Wh worry me a little bit. |
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Jan 17 2010, 10:25 PM
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Just managed to grab a few minutes of 'Mars time' (a rare thing these days!) to process the recent R21 drive direction mosaics.
All four images link to the same blog entry. 2114  2122  2124  2125  Looking forward to getting a good look at Conception Crater, should be spectacular with all that shattered Meridiani pavement. James -------------------- My MER & MSL Imagery site - Martian Vistas ---- Twitter Feed (including sol by sol updates on Opportunity's activity)
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Jan 18 2010, 12:18 AM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jan 17 2010, 10:36 PM) ... and on the solar panels too. The power levels are not that low as for Spirit but these 336Wh worry me a little bit. Yeah, the dust factor is around 25% below the values one Martian year ago. But the tau is better, around 0.5 versus 0.7 or 0.75. That means the sky is quite dark, as you can see in views like this: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...1SP2355R2M1.JPG Of course that's an IR view, and the sky is much brighter in the visible. Still, it gets very tricky to capture the sky's hue at times like this based on the stretched jpegs, especially when you're limited to R1/2/6, as you can see with the blue sky tints in James' pans. In reality the sky should still be orangy. |
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