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Mars and Me: 2011-10
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The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver, five years delayed. Opportunity Sol 961 (Spirit Sol 982). Eventually, we end up with a two-pronged strategy. Prong one is to choose a target in the shadowed area, despite the poor range data there. Prong two is to cross our fingers. Wow I see why the science team wants to stay here a while. So much to see! Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. Victoria Crater swallows the Rose Bowl. Links to this post. Opportunity Sol 961 (Spirit Sol 981). Links to this post. The drive w...
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Mars and Me: Spirit Sol 1136
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The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver, five years delayed. Let's see, we're back on Spirit now, so we're driving around . oh, yeah, Home Plate! Or, rather, Mitcheltree Ridge, where the science team thinks outliers of Home Plate material are to be found. Today Terry and I are driving her over there. It's just an educated guess, but sometimes that's all you have. So we argue a bunch, make some tweaks to the sequence, cross our fingers, and send the sequence to Mars. Next post: sol 1141, March 20.].
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Mars and Me: Spirit Sol 1144
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The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver, five years delayed. I like Torquas, mainly because for some reason it's easy to create catchy sequence names incorporating it. "Tool Change on Torquas" is today's sequence - sounds like it oughta be an Edgar Rice Borroughs short story. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Opportunity Sol 1131 (Spirit Sol 1152). Opportunity Sol 1130 (Spirit Sol 1151). Opportunity Sol 1126 (Spirit Sol 1145). Captains Log, Supplemental: All Good Things. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
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Mars and Me: Opportunity Sol 1105 (Spirit Sol 1125)
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The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver, five years delayed. Opportunity Sol 1105 (Spirit Sol 1125). It's a straightforward day in the Land of Opportunity as we bump all of about 8m to the rim of Cabo Corrientes, setting ourselves up to take the first eye of our long-baseline stereo image here. It's kind of a yawner, as these things go, since I have a shadow (Tara) doing all the real work. I kinda miss the days when I actually got to drive the damn rover once in a while. Work with me, here. At night,...
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Mars and Me: Opportunity Sol 1136 (Spirit Sol 1157)
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The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver, five years delayed. Opportunity Sol 1136 (Spirit Sol 1157). We come in all hot to drive to the dark streak east of us - and are sorely disappointed. We had a joint-1 stall in the IDD sequence yesterday. So today turns into a less exciting one; we just have to redo most of yesterday's sequence. But at least it's easy, and it's OK to have an easy one now and then. Sharon makes time to shadow part of the day again, and delivers her first sequence ever!
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Mars and Me: Opportunity Sol 1107 (Spirit Sol 1128)
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The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver, five years delayed. Opportunity Sol 1107 (Spirit Sol 1128). But we like erring on the side of caution, and anyway driving backward is natural thisol: the turn is shorter in that direction, and counterclockwise (and hence won't scoop material into the RF wheel) to boot. The only thing that could make today better would be if Frank were back from paternity leave. And he is! Next post: sol 1136, March 15.]. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Notes from a Red Pla...
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Mars and Me: 2012-01
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The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver, five years delayed. Opportunity Sol 1074 (Spirit Sol 1094). No driving is planned today. But yesterday's drive stopped a bit earlier than we'd hoped, after covering 2.19m of the planned 2.5m, due to increasing tilt. We knew the tilt limit was tight, but we allow only 8deg of tilt this close to the rim, and our limit of 7.8deg was about as high as we'll go. Next post: sol 1096 (Opportunity sol 1075), February 1.]. Links to this post. I have good news and bad ne...
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Mars and Me: 2012-04
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The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver, five years delayed. Captain's Log, Supplemental: A Final Word. So that's it - that's where my life got too complicated to continue transcribing what happened each day on MER. It's been a blast to revisit MER's early days - it all flows by so fast when it's happening, and it's been a treat to get to live it all over again. And of course I'll continue spouting off from time to time at my Twitter. Links to this post. Opportunity Sol 1138 (Spirit Sol 1158). Accord...
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Mars and Me: 2011-09
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The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver, five years delayed. Opportunity Sol 943 (Spirit Sol 964). Since I can hardly focus anyway, it's a good thing today's drive is a simple one. We plan 57m, dead at Victoria Crater, stopping midway to image a smaller crater called Kitty Clyde's Sister. This drive cuts our distance to Victoria roughly in half: we should be about 51m away when we're done. Next post: sol 978 (Opportunity sol 957), October 3.]. Links to this post. Opportunity Sol 938 (Spirit Sol 958).
