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Opportunity takes extensive imagery to decide where to go

Posted on December 21, 2017 by rburnham

Opportunity Status Report: Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of “Perseverance Valley” on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned upstream of a fork in the flow channels. The team is collecting imagery to decide which fork, … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Sand and pebbles

Posted on December 18, 2017 by rburnham

Sol 4941, December 18, 2017. The Microscopic Imager took a three-frame composite of the workplane target, dubbed Carrizal, in front of Opportunity. The pebbles in the sandy soil vary from smooth to relatively rough. At left center a curved mark … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Perseverance Valley outcrops

Posted on December 14, 2017 by rburnham

Sol 4937, December 13, 2017. As part of its profiling the details of Perseverance Valley, the Pancam took two multi-filtered images of thinly layered outcrops or loose rocks in the valley’s channel. The false-color reconstruction (by Holger Isenberg) shows faint … Continue reading →

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Opportunity comes to a fork in the road

Posted on December 14, 2017 by rburnham

Opportunity Status Report, December 13, 2017: … The rover continued with several days of collecting color, stereo, Panoramic Camera (Pancam) panoramas of the surrounding terrain. Then, on Sol 4934 (Dec. 10, 2017), after a sol of recharging, Opportunity drove about 28 … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Onward and downward

Posted on December 13, 2017 by rburnham

Sol 4936, December 12, 2017. One day after it drove 8.4 meters (28 feet) downslope, Opportunity turned its Navcam to shoot a series of images (which unavoidably include severe lens flare) that range in direction from south (at left) to … Continue reading →

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Opportunity taking Pancam stereo shots

Posted on December 8, 2017 by rburnham

Opportunity Status Report, December 7, 2017: Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The past week the rover spent conducting an extensive Panoramic Camera (Pancam) color stereo imaging campaign with large Pancam … Continue reading →

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Opportunity’s tilted winter strategy works

Posted on December 7, 2017 by rburnham

NASA’s senior Mars rover, Opportunity, has just passed the shortest-daylight weeks of the long Martian year with its solar panels in encouragingly clean condition for entering a potential dust-storm season in 2018. Before dust season will come the 14th Earth-year … Continue reading →

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Opportunity report, Sol 4925, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society

Posted on December 4, 2017 by rburnham

December 1, 2017: Opportunity Returns Fundamental Finding in Perseverance, Cruises Through Winter Solstice: Opportunity continued the historic winter science campaign inside Perseverance Valley and delivered the goods that confirmed an important discovery in November, and then cruised through winter solstice, … Continue reading →

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Opportunity’s odometer clicks over to 28 miles

Posted on December 1, 2017 by rburnham

Opportunity Status Report, November 30, 2017: Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of the Noachian-aged Endeavour Crater. Before moving to the next waypoint, the team commanded the rover on Sol 4916 (Nov. 21, … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Going down…

Posted on November 30, 2017 by rburnham

Sol 4924, November 30, 2017. Three Navcam frames look back over Opportunity’s drive down Perseverance Valley. The most recent rover wheel tracks run straight up the slope. But left of center, tracks are visible which show the rover’s movements from … Continue reading →

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