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PMA Actuator problem?, Diagnostics began sol 2257
alan
post Jun 2 2010, 09:20 PM
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What's a PMA actuator?

edit: found it, PMA is the Pancam Mast Assembly, they must be determining why the pancam didn't turn when the drive direction mosaic was taken.
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- alan   PMA Actuator problem?   Jun 2 2010, 09:20 PM
- - Tesheiner   Saw those sequences too. The PMA actuators are ...   Jun 2 2010, 09:25 PM
- - fredk   Yikes, I didn't realize the sol 2257 pancams w...   Jun 2 2010, 10:22 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (fredk @ Jun 2 2010, 06:22 PM) ...p...   Jun 2 2010, 10:30 PM
|- - marsophile   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Jun 2 2010, 03:30 ...   Jun 3 2010, 12:13 AM
|- - centsworth_II   It may be a good idea to stop taking 'up' ...   Jun 4 2010, 07:27 PM
- - jamescanvin   Yikes indeed! Loss of a PMA actuator would be ...   Jun 3 2010, 07:52 AM
|- - fredk   QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Jun 3 2010, 08:52 AM...   Jun 3 2010, 02:21 PM
- - James Sorenson   I as well hope the issue with PMA actuators is res...   Jun 3 2010, 08:45 AM
- - jamescanvin   iirc, many of the actuators share control electron...   Jun 3 2010, 09:08 AM
- - James Sorenson   Thanks James. Was there supposed to be commanded ...   Jun 3 2010, 12:05 PM
- - Tesheiner   I see not only tiny movements but also that those ...   Jun 3 2010, 06:36 PM
- - fredk   Sol 2259 pics are down: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa...   Jun 3 2010, 09:28 PM
- - fredk   This is truly bizarre: this image somehow received...   Jun 4 2010, 04:54 AM
- - jamescanvin   Some more very small motions of the PMA in tosols ...   Jun 4 2010, 11:00 AM
|- - fredk   QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Jun 4 2010, 12:00 PM...   Jun 4 2010, 03:04 PM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (fredk @ Jun 4 2010, 05:04 PM) Noti...   Jun 4 2010, 03:26 PM
|- - jamescanvin   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jun 4 2010, 04:26 PM) ...   Jun 4 2010, 07:16 PM
- - BrianL   If the pancam is unusable (and I'm not suggest...   Jun 4 2010, 05:47 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Assuming it can take pictures but only in a fixed ...   Jun 4 2010, 06:13 PM
- - djellison   Just to correct BrianL's choice of words there...   Jun 4 2010, 06:20 PM
- - fredk   As Phil said, taking pics separated by drive arcs ...   Jun 4 2010, 07:14 PM
|- - Deimos   QUOTE (fredk @ Jun 4 2010, 07:14 PM) If t...   Jun 4 2010, 10:39 PM
- - elakdawalla   Maybe we should wait to learn a little more about ...   Jun 4 2010, 07:44 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jun 4 2010, 03:44 PM...   Jun 4 2010, 07:55 PM
- - elakdawalla   I split all the PMA actuator problem posts to this...   Jun 4 2010, 08:41 PM
- - fredk   Thanks for the insights, Deimos. Thinking about t...   Jun 4 2010, 11:00 PM
- - fredk   Sol 2262 images are down. More hazcam and pancam ...   Jun 6 2010, 09:38 PM
- - Sunspot   Has one or more of the wheels possibly stopped wor...   Jun 7 2010, 07:53 AM
- - Deimos   See post #8 for James Canvin's good explanatio...   Jun 7 2010, 01:47 PM
- - Ron Hobbs   The most recent Rover Update says: "The PMA...   Jun 7 2010, 06:05 PM
- - James Sorenson   That is indeed somewhat settling news....   Jun 7 2010, 11:59 PM
- - Burmese   Scott Maxwell seems to think things have all clear...   Jun 9 2010, 08:09 PM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (Burmese @ Jun 9 2010, 04:09 PM) Sc...   Jun 9 2010, 08:38 PM
|- - fredk   QUOTE (Burmese @ Jun 9 2010, 09:09 PM) Sc...   Jun 9 2010, 09:12 PM
- - Poolio   QUOTE Smart engineers make apparent hardware failu...   Jun 9 2010, 08:16 PM
- - Stu   Re. the pause in images appearing on Exploratorium...   Jun 9 2010, 09:30 PM
- - fredk   Finally some real (but still unofficial) informati...   Jun 9 2010, 09:44 PM
- - Deimos   Big problem, to puzzling behavior, to "nothin...   Jun 10 2010, 02:53 AM
- - BrianL   And one more ScottTweet (tm) on the subject: Assum...   Jun 10 2010, 03:00 AM
- - fredk   Lot's of detail in the latest Oppy update: QUO...   Jun 10 2010, 04:30 PM
- - fredk   The new pics show a completely new pancam pointing...   Jun 10 2010, 09:15 PM
|- - Zeke4ther   well that's good news...   Jun 11 2010, 12:30 AM
- - Phil Stooke   (crawling through desert) "Gasp! A drive...   Jun 11 2010, 09:34 PM
- - fredk   From the new rover update, some more details about...   Jul 2 2010, 04:29 AM
- - Zeke4ther   In Engineering we call that 'deadlock'   Jul 2 2010, 03:31 PM

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