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Tag Archives: Cape Tribulation
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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Opportunity: At Pvt. Richard Windsor
Sol 4222, December 10, 2015. The rover continues its study of the outcrop named Pvt. Richard Windsor. Above, three Navcam frames looking down over the front of Opportunity (click to enlarge). At right, the Hazcam view (contrast adjusted). Opportunity raw … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Checking out Pvt. Richard Windsor
Sol 4221, December 9, 2015. Studying a target outcrop dubbed Pvt. Richard Windsor, the rover’s Pancam made a three frame portrait (above, in false-color by Holger Isenberg), and the Microscopic Imager dropped in for a close-up composite in four frames … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pvt. Richard Windsor
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Opportunity report by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
December 4, 2015: Reality Bites but Opportunity Climbs to “Treasure Trove”: Opportunity faced the challenges of winter as well as technological issues in November, but the Mars Exploration Rover pressed on, hiking up hill and into a geological treasure trove … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Setting up on the workplane
Sol 4206, November 23, 2015. With Opportunity parked at Pvt. Isaac White, the instrument arm swings into action to let scientists study the “workplane.” This is the vertical strip of ground that’s accessible to the arm, which can move only … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pvt. Isaac White
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Opportunity: Pancam checks Pvt. Isaac White
Sols 4203-04, November 20-21, 2015. It took the Pancam, working through multiple filters, two sols to image a rock outcrop dubbed Pvt. Isaac White, seen above in false-color by Holger Isenberg (click to enlarge). The Pancam composite’s location is shown … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pvt. Isaac White
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Opportunity: At the rocks
Sol 4202, November 19, 2015. As the rover paused at this rocky outcrop, imaged by the Hazcam, mission scientists turned the Pancam on the instrument arm’s “work plane,” seen in Holger Isenberg‘s false-color composite at right. (Click either image to … Continue reading
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Opportunity: Late afternoon at Endeavour
Sol 4200 (!), November 17, 2015. After a number of sols with only solar observations to measure dust opacity in the atmosphere, Opportunity returned to imaging its surroundings. Local time was late afternoon. Above is a three-frame Navcam view looking … Continue reading
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Opportunity: First MI target, post-MRO standdown
Sol 4194, November 11, 2015. The first Microscopic Imager target (Pvt. Ebenezer Tuttle) to be photographed after the standdown by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (acting as communications relay) is a four-frame mosaic. (Click to enlarge.) Opportunity raw images, its latest … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pvt. Ebenezer Tuttle
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