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Up-To-Date Odometers?, How far have MSL/Opportunity traveled...
Matt Sidor
post Nov 19 2012, 12:15 AM
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Hi, I am starting a project to compare the distances traveled by the MSL, Opportunity, and Spirit rovers at various phases of their respective missions. Does anyone know where on the internet I might be able to find this information? Or, the person at JPL I should contact to ask about this? I am looking for an always up-to-date source of these measurements.

My project idea is to create a web-based odometer for each rover showing how far they've traveled in real time, or to compare these measurements based on XX Sols into their missions. (i.e., how far has Curiosity traveled up until now, and how far did Spirit and Opportunity get on this Sol of their missions?)

An expansion of this idea would be to show their routes on a Google Mars map, with tick marks for distances traveled.

Thanks for your help!
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Matt Sidor
post Nov 20 2012, 09:54 PM
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Wonderful, thank you Phil, and thanks to everyone for your pointers! I think I have enough to get started. I'll keep you all posted on my (gradual) progress on this...I'll probably start working on it over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Kudos to this awesome community of smart space probe enthusiasts!!
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- Matt Sidor   Up-To-Date Odometers?   Nov 19 2012, 12:15 AM
- - Phil Stooke   For the MERs you might look at this: http://an.rs...   Nov 19 2012, 01:07 AM
- - Astro0   There's a lot of on UMSF itself. The thread th...   Nov 19 2012, 02:53 AM
- - RoverDriver   While on MSL FSW there is a built-in odometer (and...   Nov 19 2012, 04:59 PM
- - climber   I've to reconstruct info since April this year...   Nov 19 2012, 07:06 PM
- - Matt Sidor   Thanks to everyone for these helpful pointers...   Nov 20 2012, 03:41 PM
|- - RoverDriver   QUOTE (Matt Sidor @ Nov 20 2012, 07:41 AM...   Nov 20 2012, 04:00 PM
- - climber   This is incomplete information specialy at the beg...   Nov 20 2012, 04:59 PM
|- - Matt Sidor   QUOTE (climber @ Nov 20 2012, 09:59 AM) T...   Nov 20 2012, 07:18 PM
- - climber   That's mainly from weekly updates here: http:/...   Nov 20 2012, 09:02 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Looking back at my original response to this, I se...   Nov 20 2012, 09:50 PM
- - Matt Sidor   Wonderful, thank you Phil, and thanks to everyone ...   Nov 20 2012, 09:54 PM

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