Tag Archives: Bitterroot Valley

Opportunity: Pancam surveys Pompy’s Tower

Posted on November 25, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4562, November 23, 2016. The rover’s Pancam shot a five-frame profile of the feature dubbed Pompy’s Tower (false color by Holger Isenberg). Click image (3.8 MB) to enlarge. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, a location map. and … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Fore and aft

Posted on November 21, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4559, November 20, 2016. On Sol 4559, Opprtunity drove 10 meters (33 feet) downhill toward the southeast. This took the rover between the “garden” of wind-eroded rocks (left) and Pompy’s Tower (right). Top right is the view from the … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Looking north and south

Posted on November 18, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4557, November 18, 2016. After driving more than 12 meters (almost 40 feet) to the southeast, Opportunity is parked adjacent to Pompy’s Tower (at left in the above composite). Mission controllers directed the Navcam to perform a 10-frame panorama … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Looking past Pompy’s Tower

Posted on November 15, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4554, November 15, 2016. Opportunity has driven about 10 meters (33 feet) upslope from its former position. Here the Navcam looks straight south past Pompy’s Tower (left) across a field of rocks subtly faceted by windblown dust. Click image … Continue reading →

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Opportunity near Pompy’s Tower

Posted on November 11, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4550, November 11, 2016. Continuing its journey along Endeavour Crater’s rim, Opportunity stands near Pompy’s Tower (left) in the Navcam composite above. The yellow rectangle indicates the area shown below in the two Pancam frames that take a look … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Pompy’s Tower and environs

Posted on November 9, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4548, November 9, 2016. Opportunity is surveying the ground that lies ahead to the south. Above is the Navcam view, with the arrow pointing to a target dubbed Pompy’s Tower, after a landscape feature in Montana along the Lewis … Continue reading →

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Opportunity report, Sol 4540, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society

Posted on November 8, 2016 by rburnham

November 5, 2016: Opportunity Scales Spirit Mound, Takes Shot at Schiaparelli: Deep in the western rim of Endeavour Crater at Cape Tribulation, Opportunity spent the month of October on Spirit Mound studying the rich yet familiar geology at the first … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Farewell, Spirit Mound

Posted on November 7, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4546, November 7, 2016. The rover completed its final survey of Spirit Mound and the downslope area beyond (false-color Pancam by Holger Isenberg; 2.5 MB) on Sol 4544. Then it was commanded to drive 31 meters (about 100 feet) … Continue reading →

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Opportunity field report, October 26, 2016

Posted on October 27, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4535, October 26, 2016; Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: Since the last report, Opportunity has driven into the next valley to the south which we have informally … Continue reading →

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Opportunity to descend Bitterroot Valley

Posted on October 7, 2016 by rburnham

NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover will drive down a gully carved long ago by a fluid that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old mission. No Mars rover has done that before. The longest-active rover on … Continue reading →

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