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Old 03-June-2008, 12:01 AM
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Remember when 100 days seemed like a long time? Heck - I remember when even 90 days semed daunting
Heck.. I remember fixing Spirit's initial problems to be a long time
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I hope they are still going when I graduate High School. Heck, I hope they're still working when I graduate from University!
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Remember when 100 days seemed like a long time? Heck - I remember when even 90 days semed dauntingI Now 2000 days seems achieveable and it is possible that one, or both, could outlast even Viking 1.

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I remember putting a bet on two years right about the time they hit their first year.

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I remember putting a bet on two years right about the time they hit their first year.

People thought I was crazy.

They're still right, but so was I.
I gave a talk at a science fiction convention marveling at how long the rovers have lasted.

That was in November 2006.
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By the way Kai, I think your signature needs to be edited.. Looks like the leading bold tag is missing.

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Martian or terrestrial?
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Opportunity's getting close to Cape Verde, at last -- after the drivers spent many weeks struggling in a soft spot, and also figuring out how to drive with the arm unstowed because the shoulder joint could fail at any time. These are from Sol 1566. (1566!) Navigation camera and Panoramic camera respectively:



I expect to see really cool images soon.

Opportunity Raw Images
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I expect to see really cool images soon.
Those already are cool.
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I like the B/W but are there any color?
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Those already are cool.
Indeed.

It's getting to the point that I could spend all day keeping up with the various robotic beasts we have spread around the solar system at the moment.
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I expect to see really cool images soon.
A little more dramatic action from near Cape Verde, from the Exploratorium site (Opportunity raw images), not yet at the JPL site (Opportunity raw images):
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opp...0P2265L2M1.JPG
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opp...0P2265L7M1.JPG

Those dunes in the second one look ocean-like, and make the Cape Verde name seem pretty fitting.
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Opportunity at Cape Verde



And many more at or around: Opportunity: Sol 1571 Pancam
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Martian or terrestrial?
Terrestrial. Though I think I've been as impressed as anyone, no matter which planet's orbital period you use.

The conversion from Martian to Terrestrial time is irksome, though. The term "Sol" still feels weird rattling around in my head, though I absolutely respect their reasons for it.
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I like the B/W but are there any color?
While waiting for NASA to produce theirs, it's worth checking to see if the serious hobbyists at UnmannedSpaceflight are making their own. The answer is almost always yes.

UnmannedSpaceflight: Opportunity topics

There, find, for instance: Cape Verde, color, mosaic, 800 kilobytes (that needs one more image to fill a gap)
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Don't know about you guys, but Cape Verde looks like rattlesnake country to me. I'd see to the kids and dogs.
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Opportunity is leaving Victoria Crater.

Planetary Society: Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Bides Winter Time, Opportunity Wraps Victoria and Begins Exit

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At Gusev Crater, Spirit managed to maintain its power level and get back to doing a little bit of science, while on the other side of the planet, at Meridiani Planum, Opportunity finished photographing Cape Verde and began to chart its course back to Duck Bay where it will exit Victoria Crater.

The MER team's decision to have Opportunity rove out of the big crater – which was only made during a science operations working group meeting Wednesday afternoon -- was the big news of the month. It came one week after the rover experienced a spike in the electrical current to the motor for its left front wheel, an event ominously similar to what Spirit experienced just before it lost the use of its right front wheel for good back in March 2006.

During a series of diagnostic tests this week, the wheel maneuvered just fine. "It seems to have been only a transient event," said Jake Matijevic, chief of rover engineering at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where the rovers were designed and are being managed. But, he added, "the high current spike has spooked the team a little bit in the sense that we're wondering – even though the actuator [motor] looks like it's okay – maybe this is a harbinger of some degradation on the mobility system."
Much, much more there.
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Oppertunity is now leaving yet ANOTHER crater that was supposed to be it's final destination? is that the second or third one?
i'm starting to think that that little rover is going to serve as a welcoming committee for the first humans to land there whenever that happens.
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