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Post Conjunction: Santa Maria to Cape York, The Journey to 'Spirit Point'
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post Jul 3 2011, 10:06 PM
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Have a look at this Sol-2628 navcam:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...3QP1725L0M5.JPG
The crater on the right part of the image near the horizon....is it Santa Maria? Navcam has 45x45 degree field of view (1024x1024px). This crater is about 30px, so it is about 1.32 degrees wide. Assuming it to be about 89m then if I'm correct it gives me distance of 3862m. Google Earth tells me 3888m.


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post Jul 3 2011, 11:20 PM
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My guess would be the Mercury cluster, which is smaller but closer.
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post Jul 4 2011, 06:47 AM
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QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Jul 3 2011, 10:47 PM) *
As for the drive that you were expecting that was planned to be at the end of the long weekend so that stuff planned in for the other days were at a known position. The drive should be happening right now...

Done. 121m in "blind" mode from 10:15 to 12:00 plus 41m in "autonav" mode from 12:00 to 14:37.
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post Jul 4 2011, 07:41 AM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jul 4 2011, 08:47 AM) *
Done. 121m in "blind" mode from 10:15 to 12:00 plus 41m in "autonav" mode from 12:00 to 14:37.

At this pace, we should have a "vision" by Bastille Day... smile.gif
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post Jul 4 2011, 07:54 AM
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QUOTE (fredk @ Jul 3 2011, 10:20 PM) *
The "one that got away" was actually visible from our previous position - here it is from sol 2635:


Ah. Missed that 'cos of NLC-watching sleep deprivation... wink.gif


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post Jul 4 2011, 02:10 PM
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All right, we'll let it go this time, Stu! laugh.gif

I've been wondering if we'll notice changes in the bedrock as we approach Endeavour. Recently I've been noticing many examples of "rind" features, like on the foreground bedrock here:
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...0M1.JPG?sol2645
We've seen these since way, way back, but they now seem to be getting more prevalent.
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post Jul 4 2011, 02:56 PM
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Could the team be referring to those features with "Bingags Caves" ?


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post Jul 5 2011, 06:44 PM
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You can just make out that crater on the distant hills in this view, and it looks like we have sunk even lower!

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...T3P2356R2M1.JPG
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post Jul 5 2011, 07:24 PM
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Yep, we've sunk about as low as we can possibly go...

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post Jul 5 2011, 07:32 PM
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Hey, cool... now Oppy's looking for meteorites beneath the dust! laugh.gif


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post Jul 5 2011, 09:24 PM
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It's from the book "Thirty Thousand Leagues Under Meridiani Planum" ...


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post Jul 6 2011, 09:47 AM
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Umm - a fall of Mars Dust, or maybe even Mars is a Harsh Mistress ? rolleyes.gif + wink.gif
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post Jul 6 2011, 09:57 AM
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Another meteorite ?
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...T3P1777L0M1.JPG
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From Scott: "Grr. Too many data products on Opportunity today; no driving. Heroic efforts will probably salvage drive for tomorrow, so that's something"

and then: "Indeed, tomorrow's drive has been salvaged through careful work, giving Jeng and Joe a chance to set another record. :-)"

May be one day short of the HOAV or whatever it'll be wheel.gif


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post Jul 6 2011, 03:16 PM
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It's the dreaded Sand-Rover!


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