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Tag Archives: Bitterroot Valley
Opportunity: Pancam surveys Pompy’s Tower
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
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
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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Tagged Bitterroot Valley, Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pompys Tower, Spirit Mound
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Opportunity: Looking past Pompy’s Tower
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
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
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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Tagged Bitterroot Valley, Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pompey's Pillar, Pompys Tower, Spirit Mound
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Opportunity report, Sol 4540, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
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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Tagged Bitterroot Valley, Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, ExoMars 2016, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Meridiani Planum, NASA, Opportunity, Roscosmos, Schiaparelli lander, Spirit Mound, TGO, Trace Gas Orbiter
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Opportunity: Farewell, Spirit Mound
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
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
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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