Tag Archives: Mars Exploration Rover

Opportunity: Over five months without word

Posted on December 3, 2018 by rburnham

NASA Mars Exploration Rover Status Report, November 27, 2018: Mars atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site remains at a storm-free level of 0.8. Since loss of signal on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), 359 recovery commands have been radiated … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Atmospheric opacity over rover drops to storm-free levels

Posted on November 13, 2018 by rburnham

NASA Mars Exploration Rover Status Report, November 8, 2018: The global dust storm on Mars has ended and atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site has dropped to a storm-free level of 0.8. Since loss of signal on Sol 5111 … Continue reading →

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Gathering the rocks of Meridiani Planum

Posted on November 12, 2018 by rburnham

[Editor’s note: From a paper by Michael Bouchard and Bradley Joliff recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.] A Systematic Method for Classifying and Grouping Late Noachian and Early Hesperian Rock Targets Analyzed by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity … Continue reading →

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Sounds of a martian sunrise

Posted on November 12, 2018 by rburnham

Scientists have created the soundtrack of the 5,000th Mars sunrise captured by the robotic exploration rover, Opportunity, using data sonification techniques to create a two-minute piece of music. Researchers created the piece of music by scanning a picture from left … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Five months since we received a signal

Posted on November 8, 2018 by rburnham

NASA Mars Exploration Rover Status Report, October 30, 2018: The global dust storm on Mars has ended and atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site hovers around a typical seasonal value between 1.0 and 1.2. No signal from Opportunity has … Continue reading →

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Opportunity report, Sol 5251, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society

Posted on November 5, 2018 by rburnham

November 5, 2018: NASA Green-Lights Team to Continue Opportunity Recovery Plan into 2019: October came and went without a beep from Opportunity, silence that was still no surprise for some, but a little discouraging for other members of the Mars … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Update on recovery efforts

Posted on October 31, 2018 by rburnham

Updated at 4 p.m. PDT on Oct. 29, 2018: After a review of the progress of the listening campaign, NASA will continue its current strategy for attempting to make contact with the Opportunity rover for the foreseeable future. Winds could … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Still no signal from Opportunity

Posted on October 29, 2018 by rburnham

NASA Mars Exploration Rover Status Report, October 23, 2018: The dust storm on Mars has ended and atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site hovers around a typical seasonal value between 1.0 and 1.1. No signal from Opportunity has been … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Actively listening for Opportunity

Posted on October 25, 2018 by rburnham

NASA Mars Exploration Rover Status Report, October 18, 2018: The dust storm on Mars has ended with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site down to around typical values of 1.0 to 1.1. No signal from Opportunity has been heard … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Efforts to communicate continue

Posted on October 15, 2018 by rburnham

NASA Mars Exploration Rover Status Report, October 10, 2018: The dust storm on Mars has effectively ended with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site down to around 1.0 to 1.1, values are typical for storm-free conditions this time of … Continue reading →

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