Tag Archives: Cape Tribulation

Opportunity: Spirit of St. Louis Crater next

Posted on April 13, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3987, April 12, 2015. Next up is the enigmatic crater Spirit of St. Louis (dark oval in the center) and its puzzling rock pile, Lindbergh. This Navcam composite looks generally northward, with Meridiani Planum at left and the summit … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Micro-Imager on Athens

Posted on April 10, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3984, April 9, 2015. The Micscopic Imager is examining a new target area on the Athens outcrop, in a two-frame composite. (Click the image to load a larger version in a new tab.) Opportunity raw images, its latest mission … Continue reading →

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Opportunity field report: April 3, 2015

Posted on April 8, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3978 (April 3, 2015) Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: Opportunity has been examining a bright outcrop here before getting on with the business of exploring Marathon Valley. … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 3, 2015 by rburnham

April 3, 2015: Opportunity Finishes First Marathon on Another Planet and Roves On It began as a day like thousands of others for the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission, but it ended in a way no other sol or Martian … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Athens target under the MI

Posted on March 31, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3975, March 31, 2015. The Microscopic Imager (MI) has shot a four-frame composite of a complex target on the Athens outcrop. (Click the image for a 730 KB version in a new tab.) Opportunity raw images, its latest mission … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Spirit of St. Louis Crater puzzles

Posted on March 30, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3974, March 29, 2015. While the rover’s instrument arm is busy with the Athens outcrop, the Pancam looks generally eastward over Spirit of St. Louis Crater (left side). In the distance stands the hazy profile of Endeavour Crater’s far … Continue reading →

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Opportunity field report: March 26, 2015

Posted on March 28, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3971 (March 26, 2015) Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: Since my last post Opportunity has successfully driven from the summit of Cape Tribulation (the name we gave … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Athens outcrop in color

Posted on March 28, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3971, March 27, 2015. This false-color image, by Holger Isenberg using filtered Pancam frames, shows the workplane for the rover’s instrument arm, as it prepares to examine the Athens outcrop. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, a location … Continue reading →

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Opportunity has post-reformat amnesia event

Posted on March 27, 2015 by rburnham

Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status Report: The team operating NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity learned Thursday that the long-lived rover experienced a brief amnesia event related to its flash memory, the first since a reformatting of that nonvolatile type of … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Approaching Athens

Posted on March 25, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3969, March 25, 2015. Opportunity’s next target is a light-toned outcrop dubbed Athens, seen here in a two-frame Navcam composite. Note the faint darkening across the closer part of the outcrop, which may indicate chemical changes in the rock, … Continue reading →

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