Opportunity Route Map Options

[djellison]

Cool - a new deck pan for Oppy as well

If they show the recent Spirit deck pan at the conference, I've done some of it with the 456's myself - you will not BELIEVE how clean Spirit is!!

Doug

[Tesheiner]

you will not BELIEVE how clean Spirit is!!

I haven't seen (made) the deck pan, but after watching that animated gif about the MI and the summit winds (where is it?) I just though: Spirit must be now like it was while on KSC's clean-room.

[dilo]

Added Sol569 panorama vertical projection (very small progress in last week).

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[Guest_Sunspot_*]

hmmm no drive: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...27P1319R0M1.JPG

[Tesheiner]

Sunspot,

The timestamp on that image is "Mission time: 31.08.2005, 19:09.03 UTC" -- Sol 570.
The drive was expected on sol 571, and we don't have yet any image from such sol.

I think there are some problems again with the Exploratorium (see here).

[Guest_Sunspot_*]

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...84P1311R0M1.JPG

Moving again

[Bill Harris]

Yes! Moving, and transmitting many images.

--Bill

[CosmicRocker]

Praise the lord! ...or at least praise that intrepid rover and the awesome team controlling it.

That was an interesting little zigzag backtrack it made, finding the safest route. Though rather slowly, but surely, it is making it's way toward Erebus, which is looming ever larger on the horizon.

[mhoward]

Funny you should mention zigzagging, tracks and Erebus... I liked how this mosaic came out. Although I'm not positive that's actually Erebus on the horizon... There's clearly something there, but at this rate it seem like it will be a long time before we see what it is.

[Bill Harris]

I'm not positive that's actually Erebus on the horizon...

It is, on the left side of your stitch. You can spot the three "marker dunes"-- before, Erebus was on top of the rise and we were looking up at it, but now we are on the rise, and Erebus is lost in the Sea Of Dunes.

I think the Rover Guiders are threading a cautious path cross-dune to the Highway.

--Bill

[Guest_Sunspot_*]

Just how far is the Erebus Highway? From orbital images it looks very large and prominent.. but there doesnt seem to be much to see of it from the rover cameras so far.

[Tesheiner]

Have a look at these two posts:
- Where is the highway?
- Path to the highway?

If my estimation is correct, Oppy should be about 50m from the highway.
But we must take into account that she will have to do a LOT of zigzag to reach it.

Edited: BTW, she is currently almost exactly at the end of the first leg of the path on the 2nd post.

[Bill Harris]

I agree with your assessment on Oppy's location. The Highway is difficult to see because of the dunes. As a reference point, the eroded ghost crater visible in the MOC images is seen on the left side of your annotated mosaic.

--Bill

[Bill Harris]

Has anyone figured what Oppy is up to? Friday she sent a series of partial-frame images of a patch of blueberry-covered dune. Saturday a tight panoramic series of R1-R2 Pancam images in the direction of Erebus. I figure she's picking a path to the Highway and doing other roverly things, but I've not got her figured out.

--Bill

[Tesheiner]

She is currently in "restricted sols" mode, so I guess they are mixing driving activity with other science ones.

E.g. The R1-R2 images referred by Bill can be correlated with a panorama for albedo related measurements.

2. What EDRs do we have on the ground from sol 572, 573, 574, 575?

Actual number of EDRs by sequence number and image type:

Sol Seq.Ver  ETH ESF EDN EFF ERP Tot  Description
--- -------- --- --- --- --- --- ---- -----------
572 p2275.03 189 0  0  54  2  245  pancam_albedo_pan_L1R1267

BTW, as of today the next drive is not yet planned. Guess for Tuesday.