Tag Archives: Cape Tribulation

Opportunity: Rising ever higher

Posted on December 16, 2014 by rburnham

Sol 3871, December 14, 2014. As Opportunity drives up the slope of Cape Tribulation, the view gets slowly wider. In this Pancam four-frame composite, the summit area apparently lies just ahead, though this may be a “false summit” of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Reports | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Opportunity: Caleb Greenwood outcrop

Posted on December 15, 2014 by rburnham

Sol 3870, December 14, 2014. The Caleb Greenwood outcrop lies to the east (left) of the rover’s track. This false-color composite was created by Holger Isenberg using two filtered Pancam images. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, a location … Continue reading →

Posted in Reports | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Opportunity: Cottondale, Calera, Locust Fork

Posted on December 12, 2014 by rburnham

Sol 3868, December 10, 2014. Opportunity’s Pancam used its filter set to image several targets on the ground: the bright mineral vein Cottondale (arrow) and the rounded brushed targets Calera (top) and Locust Fork (just above the vein). This image, … Continue reading →

Posted in Reports | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Opportunity working in no-flash mode for now

Posted on December 12, 2014 by rburnham

Persistent computer resets and “amnesia” events on NASA’s Mars Exploration rover Opportunity that have occurred after reformatting the robot’s flash memory have prompted a shift to a working mode that avoids use of the flash data-storage system. The most recent … Continue reading →

Posted in Reports | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

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

Posted on December 4, 2014 by rburnham

December 3, 2014: Opportunity roves from Wdowiak Ridge into network of fractures. As a large, threatening regional dust storm blowing across the southern hemisphere of Mars continued to degrade and the skies over Endeavour Crater began to clear, veteran Mars Exploration … Continue reading →

Posted in Reports | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Opportunity: Fracture zone in false color

Posted on December 3, 2014 by rburnham

Sol 3859, December 1, 2014. Opportunity’s Pancam shot a sequence of the ground in the fracture zone using the filter set. This composite was compiled from false-color images by Holger Isenberg, who used filtered Pancam images. Opportunity raw images, its … Continue reading →

Posted in Reports | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Opportunity: On the slope

Posted on December 2, 2014 by rburnham

Sol 3856, November 28, 2014. The rover’s left-side Pancam, using its #7 (blue-sensitive) filter, images the slopes of Cape Tribulation in a four-frame composite. The rim crest lies at left, the Meridiani plains in the distance at right, and ripples … Continue reading →

Posted in Reports | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Opportunity: At the fracture

Posted on December 1, 2014 by rburnham

Sol 3855, November 27, 2014. Opportunity’s Pancam, looking east and using its red-sensitive filter #2, makes both near (above) and far observations of the fracture in which the rover sits. See also here. Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, … Continue reading →

Posted in Reports | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Opportunity: Microscopic Imager zooms in

Posted on November 25, 2014 by rburnham

Sol 3850, November 22, 2014. The rover’s Microscopic Imager surveys a shiny piece of an outcrop in this 2 x 2 array of separate images. Below, what the Hazcam recorded shortly after.           Opportunity raw images, … Continue reading →

Posted in Reports | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Opportunity field report: November 20, 2014

Posted on November 20, 2014 by rburnham

Sol 3848 (November 20, 2014) Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: “Opportunity finished up its work on Wdowiak Ridge and has now continued southward along the rim of Endeavour … Continue reading →

Posted in Reports | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off