Tag Archives: Marathon Valley

Opportunity: Far horizon

Posted on January 25, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4266 & 4267, January 24 & 25, 2016. Three Navcam frames taken on Sol 4266 show the scenery at Marathon Valley and the floor and far rim of Endeavour Crater, as the rover looks toward the east and southeast … Continue reading →

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Opportunity busy through depth of winter

Posted on January 25, 2016 by rburnham

NASA’s senior Mars rover, Opportunity, worked through the lowest-solar-energy days of the mission’s seventh Martian winter, while using a diamond-toothed rock grinder and other tools in recent weeks to investigate clues about the Red Planet’s environmental history. The modern Mars … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Close-up on Joseph Collin deposit

Posted on January 25, 2016 by rburnham

Sols 4263-64, January 21-22, 2016. Opportunity’s Microscopic Imager made a two-sol portrait of the smooth, dark gray feature dubbed Joseph Collin, which appears to be a deposit of sand. Note the dimpled surface it shows. (To see the false-color Pancam view, … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Checking out Joseph Collin

Posted on January 21, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4262, January 20, 2016. The rover is positioned so as to place an intriguing deposit, dubbed Joseph Collin, in the instrument arm’s “workplane” — i.e., where the arm can put instruments onto the target. (The instrument arm can move … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Looking upslope

Posted on January 19, 2016 by rburnham

Sols 4256 & 4261, January 14 & 19, 2016. The rover’s Pancam has taken a three-shot profile looking upslope at the entrance to Marathon Valley. The lower outcrop at left is Knudsen Ridge, the higher one at right is Hinners … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Deeper grind on Pvt. John Potts

Posted on January 18, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4259, January 17, 2016. Opportunity’s Rock Abrasion Tool, having safely done a light grind on the target dubbed Pvt. John Potts, drilled a few millimeters deeper into the target. At right is the scene, showing a collar of debris … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: At Knudsen Ridge

Posted on January 9, 2016 by rburnham

Sols 4249 & 4250, January 7 & 8, 2016. The rover’s Pancam shot composite images of parts of a target dubbed Knudsen Ridge, named for Jens Martin Knudsen, a Danish Mars scientist. The two composites — below is from Sol … Continue reading →

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Opportunity report, Sol 4244, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society

Posted on January 8, 2016 by rburnham

January 8, 2016: Opportunity Finishes Another Record Year, Approaches 12th Anniversary: Perched on the southern wall of Marathon Valley at Endeavour Crater, Opportunity braved temperatures descending well below -100° Fahrenheit [-73.33° Celsius] in December to work the winter science campaign … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: RATting on Pvt. John Potts, part 1

Posted on January 6, 2016 by rburnham

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

Posted on December 21, 2015 by rburnham

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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