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Tag Archives: Cape Tribulation
Opportunity: Southwest Ridge in false color
Sol 4571, December 2, 2016. The Pancam shot a sequence of filtered frames looking toward the southeast. The second-left filtered frame was sent back to Earth missing one filtered image and another is incomplete, hence its odd coloration and appearance. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bitterroot Valley, Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Southwest Ridge
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Opportunity: Pathway to the south
Sol 4566, November 27, 2016. The rover’s Navcam shot a composite view (above) looking southward, the direction Opportunity is traveling. Then the Pancam, which gives a 3x “telescopic view” compared to the Navcam, took a series (below) showing the rocks … Continue reading
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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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Tagged Bitterroot Valley, Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pompys Tower
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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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Tagged Bitterroot Valley, Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pompys Tower
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Tracking Opportunity by HiRISE
[Editor note: Blog post by Emily Lakdawalla, the Planetary Society] After analyzing the HiRISE coverage of the Curiosity landing site, I thought it would be easier to analyze Opportunity coverage, because I’d developed some good strategies along the way. Although … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, The Planetary Society
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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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Tagged Bitterroot Valley, Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pompys Tower, Spirit Mound
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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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Tagged Bitterroot Valley, Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Pompys Tower, Spirit Mound
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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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