Opportunity Route Map Options

[Gsnorgathon]

Don't forget Mars24...

[djellison]

I wonder if it would be possible to add a mars clock to this forum? At the top of the page so it's always visible.

Not easily Without just stealing the flash one at JPL's site.

Doug

[TheChemist]

I noticed in the last route update, that Opportunity's goes inside Vostok

[cIclops]

I noticed in the last route update, that Opportunity's goes inside Vostok   

that assumes that Vostok is a crater, some say it may be a mound ... :>

new panorama of 'Naturaliste' Crater, Sol 387 here

[djellison]

If it was a mound of any height - we WOULD have seen it by now

imho - it's a very very erroded crater, much more so than eagle/fram etc - i.e. pre hydrological activity - it'll just be exactly what it appears on the orbital images - a ring of exposed rock perhaps a few CM above the surrounding area with no inner 'dip' or dunes

Doug

[TheChemist]

I noticed in the last route update, that Opportunity's goes inside Vostok   

that assumes that Vostok is a crater, some say it may be a mound ... :>

Well, it must be a really low mound, otherwise it should be visible by now.

Edit : it appears Doug types faster

[erwan]

According to Pando's last Opportunity routemap (link: Pando's RouteMap) and JPL's sol 387 Pan (link: Pan sol 387), Vostok should be seen on that sol 387 Navcam picture: 1N162546176EFF4700P0680L0M1.JPG
(on the left part of the horizon, and roughly 400m far). Thus in fact "it must been a really low mount", as you wrote Djellison and TheChemist...

[SFJCody]

Astrobio has a nice javascript Mars clock. Just add this to the page source:

<script src="http://www.astrobio.net/news/javascript/marstime.js"></script>

[djellison]

To be honest - it'd piss me off If I want to know the time on mars, I load up Mars24 Great though the Invision board is -it's cluttered and noisey enough already. It'd be breaking my own rule about excessive signatures ( I HATE signatures that go on and on about peoples PC specification WHY DO I CARE!! )



Hell - what next - BA Flight schedules from Heathrow to KSC in the menu bar

Doug

[mhoward]

That's three minutes ahead of the JPL clock - what's with that? Who's right?

I think MMB's is just a couple seconds off Mars24's. I'm not exactly sure why the difference from Mars24, possible a rounding error. Couple seconds off was close enough for my purposes.

[lyford]

new panorama of 'Naturaliste' Crater, Sol 387 here

QTVR of the 'Naturaliste' Crater, Sol 387, panorama here: "site_A47_cyl-med.mov"

Just a quickie, but I like the "being there" feel...

Looks like the "vessels of discovery" naming meme still applies...though I don't remember any "Voyages of the Naturaliste," Google again saves the day!

[erwan]

Looking all around Naturalist QTVR Pan; damnation, where is Vostok? Thanks, Lyford.

[Deimos]

I wonder if it would be possible to add a mars clock to this forum?  At the top of the page so it's always visible.

You can get a non-Flash (but javascript) html Mars clock at:
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~lemmon/mars/MERClocks/mera.html
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~lemmon/mars/MERClocks/merb.html
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~lemmon/mars/MERClocks.zip

It is as accurate as the UTC clock of the computer it is run on, or
to within a couple seconds for a time-synched computer. It can be
put in another web page or set as a desktop feature (at least for
windows, haven't tried elsewhere).

[Pando]

curious, why choose Deimos as opposed to Phobos as a screen name...

[Guest_Sunspot_*]

I noticed in the last route update, that Opportunity's goes inside Vostok   

that assumes that Vostok is a crater, some say it may be a mound ... :>

new panorama of 'Naturaliste' Crater, Sol 387 here

I think they'll take one look at Vostok and drive right on by lol .... I still don't believe the white annulus visible from MOC images is bedrock... I think it's lighter coloured dust that's accumulated around the object.... all the craters show this when seen from orbit.