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Tag Archives: Pvt. John Potts
Opportunity: Pvt. John Potts, in false color
Sol 4268, January 26, 2016. Opportunity’s Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) has bored into the target dubbed Pvt. John Potts for a couple of millimeters. The effort raised a ring of grinding debris around the target, as seen in this false-color … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Knudsen Ridge, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pvt. John Potts
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Opportunity busy through depth of winter
NASA’s senior Mars rover, Opportunity, worked through the lowest-solar-energy days of the mission’s seventh Martian winter, while using a diamond-toothed rock grinder and other tools in recent weeks to investigate clues about the Red Planet’s environmental history. The modern Mars … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Deeper grind on Pvt. John Potts
Sol 4259, January 17, 2016. Opportunity’s Rock Abrasion Tool, having safely done a light grind on the target dubbed Pvt. John Potts, drilled a few millimeters deeper into the target. At right is the scene, showing a collar of debris … Continue reading
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Opportunity: RATting on Pvt. John Potts, part 1
Sol 4248, January 6, 2016. The rover’s Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) has given the target Pvt. John Potts (right) a brushing and taken a Microscopic Imager composite of the result (below). Click to enlarge and compare with the untouched version … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Parked at Pvt. John Potts
Sol 4232, December 20, 2015. The rover is parked on a steep slope at an outcrop dubbed Pvt. John Potts. Below is the Microscopic Imager’s four-frame composite view of the target area (click to enlarge); at right the front Hazcam … Continue reading
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