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Old 29-August-2008, 03:54 AM
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I wish that when these things finally fail that we could recover them and bring them back to earth to put in museums or something. They so deserve it.
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I wish that when these things finally fail that we could recover them and bring them back to earth to put in museums or something. They so deserve it.
I'd like to put them on a museum on Mars.

But then I'm a colonization buff. I'd recommend doing the same with the lunar landers.
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I wish that when these things finally fail that we could recover them and bring them back to earth to put in museums or something. They so deserve it.
I'd like to put them on a museum on Mars.

But then I'm a colonization buff. I'd recommend doing the same with the lunar landers.
You mean they are not trundling around the Nevada dessert Ducks and runs
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"I wish that when these things finally fail that we could recover them and bring them back to earth to put in museums or something. They so deserve it."

Actually, Steve Squyres mentioned in his book "Roving Mars" that he hopes they will never be brought back to Earth. He feels that they belong on Mars and should stay there.
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Ah. Flatness dead ahead.
Escape.

Image from Exploratorium Opportunity Navcam August 29
(Navcam 2008-08-29 Directory)

Back in Flatland.
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Opportunity updates (archive):

sol 1600-16[06], July 25-30, 2008: Opportunity to Exit "Victoria Crater"

sol 1607-1613, July 31-August 7, 2008: Heading for the Highway!

sol 1614-1620, August 8-14, 2008: Opportunity Eyes Challenges Ahead
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New twitter for the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity: @marsrovers

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The exit from the crater came almost a full year since venturing in, back in Sept. 2007. Oppy's news is here: http://tinyurl.com/6qy4sd

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Opportunity has left the crater! Oppy climbed out of Victoria Crater Thursday, retracing the route used to go in : http://twitpic.com/9hiw about 2 hours ago from twhirl
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Bio Roaming the Red Planet on six wheels. The official mission Twitter of Spirit and Opportunity
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Does anybody has a map of the travels of Oppy INSIDE Victoria Crater itself?

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The more recent articles of topic Opportunity Route Map at UnmannedSpaceflight will have a few different views: from overhead on a MRO image or from up above from one of the capes, in an image captured earlier by Opportunity.
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Planetary Society: Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Exits Victoria Crater, Spirit Picks Up Pace on Panorama (August 31):

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It took Opportunity just about the entire month of August to complete the series of drives that covered a total of 50 meters (164 feet) and took it back to Duck Bay and out of the big crater it has been studying for years.
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It was not all that long ago that the engineers at JPL were preparing to put Spirit on "life support" if its power levels dropped too low during the winter, but that dire mode never had to be implemented. The light, so to speak, was always there, it turned out, at the end of the tunnel.
"We're planning twice a week now, filling in the Bonestell Pan, doing atmospheric monitoring, watching the power creep up very slowly, but continuing to creep up," Squyres reported. "Before long we'll be considering some bumps that will allow us to track the Sun with the solar arrays."
Lots more there.
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Can we now please have some close up images of Sputnik crater?
It's not too far from Opportunity's current location:

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/i...=post&id=15472

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Spirit updates (archive):

sol 1657-1662, August 31-September 05, 2008: Spirit Continues Work on Winter Panorama

sol 1651-1656, August 25-30, 2008: Spirit Still Biding Time -- and Checking the Clock

sol 1635-1642, August 08-15, 2008: Spirit Standing By

Opportunity updates (archive):

sol 1634-1640, August 28-September 03, 2008: Farewell, "Victoria"!

sol 1627-1633, August 21-27, 2008: Poised to Exit "Victoria"

sol 1621-1626, August 15-20, 2008: On the Exit Ramp

Thus, JPL continues on with their current MER update process.
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Can we now please have some close up images of Sputnik crater?
It's not too far from Opportunity's current location:

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/i...=post&id=15472

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Another unusual thing about the crater is that it appears to push out the edge of Victoria. Look at the images in replies #14 and #16 in this thread to see this more clearly.

A closer look at "Sputnik" crater by Opportunity?
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http://www.marsroverblog.com/discuss...portunity.html

Sputnik lies just on the rim of Victoria. You would expect if either Sputnik was laid down later or Victoria crater was laid down later, the rim of Sputnik would be cut off to be straight across. But instead this part of Sputnik is round like the rest of crater.


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Planetary Society Weblog: Opportunity's got a long road ahead

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Mars Exploration Rover principal investigator Steve Squyres announced on National Public Radio's Science Friday show the next goal for Opportunity, and it's a long, long, long way away: a huge crater about 12 kilometers southeast of its current location, which the team is referring to internally as "Endeavour." That seems like a crazy distance for an old rover to drive.
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I haven't had a chance to listen to the show yet, but Squyres apparently said that they've done the easy places so it's time to try to do something hard. (Ha, I wonder what the rover drivers think of Opportunity's 'easy' time so far.) And he predicts it could take a couple more years to make the trip.
On the name: darn. I repeatedly called Endurance crater Endeavour. I think I picked that up from some early news release that had it wrong, and it got stuck in my brain. Now the new target is Endeavour -- which I'll probably call Endurance, 'cause that's what it will take to get there.
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I wonder if they'll let the balance between speed and safety lean a bit more towards speed for this hike.
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Spirit update (archive):

sol 1663-1668, 11-September-2008: Light Duty for Now

Opportunity update (archive):

sol 1627-1633, 11-September-2008: Playing in the Sand
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Opportunity maximum distance in a single sol = 178 m, 12 km = 67 sols

Opportunity average distance in a sol during the drive from Endurance to Victoria = 11 m, 12 km = 1100 sols

My guess is 500-700 sols to do this.

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Opportunity maximum distance in a single sol = 178 m
It's 220m actually - near James Caird crater. Wiki has that bit wrong.

I'd say 50m/sol average, one sol in 3 lost to restricted planning or problems - so each month, 1km. Although I hate myself for playing the game of multplying drive distance by numbers of sols - because it's always wrong

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Another unusual thing about the crater is that it appears to push out the edge of Victoria. Look at the images in replies #14 and #16 in this thread to see this more clearly.

A closer look at "Sputnik" crater by Opportunity?
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http://www.marsroverblog.com/discuss...portunity.html

Sputnik lies just on the rim of Victoria. You would expect if either Sputnik was laid down later or Victoria crater was laid down later, the rim of Sputnik would be cut off to be straight across. But instead this part of Sputnik is round like the rest of crater.


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