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Tag Archives: Spirit Mound
Opportunity: Checking the scuffed ground at Lupus
Sol 4534, October 25, 2016. The Microscopic Imager’s latest target area is dubbed Lupus, named for a town in Missouri visited by the Lewis and Clark explorers. This is an area of soil disturbed by Opportunity’s right front wheel as … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Lupus, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit Mound
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Opportunity: Pancam profiling of Spirit Mound
Sols 4530-31, October 21-22, 2016. Because Spirit Mound’s origin is unclear (and potentially of scientific interest), the rover team is profiling it from above (upslope). The missing frames may be added as days go by. False-color composite (3.2 MB) by … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit Mound
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Opportunity: Disturbed ground near Gasconade
Sol 4527, October 18, 2016. Above is a front Hazcam view of an area near Gasconade where Opportunity has spun around and disturbed the ground with its wheels. The two small light-toned rocks (arrow) are of interest as perhaps showing … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Gasconade, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit Mound
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Opportunity: Exploring at Gasconade
Sol 4521, October 12, 2016. Parked at the Gasconade site, Opportunity has placed the Marion target (right) in the workplane of the instrument arm. (False-color reconstruction from Pancam frames by Holger Isenberg.) Above, the Navcam takes in the scene looking … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Gasconade, Marion, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit Mound
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Opportunity to descend Bitterroot Valley
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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Tagged Bitterroot Valley, Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit Mound
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Opportunity report, Sol 4510, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
October 5, 2016: Opportunity Exits Marathon Valley then Rocks Spirit Mound: It was another September to remember for the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission as Opportunity cruised through the Lewis and Clark Gap and out of Marathon Valley, then hiked … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Gasconade, Lewis and Clark Gap, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit Mound
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Opportunity: Close-up on Gasconade
Sol 4512, October 3, 2016. The Microscopic Imager takes a multi-frame composite (2 MB) of target Gasconade at Spirit Mound (right). Above, the front Hazcam captures the bigger picture. Click either image to enlarge it. Opportunity raw images, its latest … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Gasconade, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit Mound
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Opportunity: Spirit Mound workspace
Sols 4505-07, September 26-28, 2016. Above is a shot looking over Spirit Mound toward a boulder field out on the floor of Endeavour Crater. At right is a three-shot composite (1.7 MB) taken over three sols of the workspace that … Continue reading
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Tagged boulders, Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit Mound
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Opportunity: Pancam checks Spirit Mound
Sol 4502, September 22, 2016. Above is a Pancam composite showing part of Spirit Mound and one of the small rocky “ridges” leading away from it. Pancam took a fully filtered set of images for the two leftmost frames (false-colored … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, eolian processes, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit Mound, ventifacts, wind erosion
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Opportunity: Spirit Mound in false color
Sol 4501, September 21, 2016. Two Pancam multi-filtered frames let Holger Isenberg reconstruct a false-color composite (2.4 MB) of Spirit Mound. (Click to enlarge.) Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, a location map. and atmospheric opacity, known as tau.
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit Mound
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