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Tag Archives: MER
Opportunity: Passage to Inde
Sols 5076-77, May 5-6, 2018. Mission controllers used the rover’s Pancam to shoot five multi-filtered frames to make a false-color composite image of flat-lying tabular rocks at the La Salinera site in Perseverance Valley. Mission control then drove Opportunity about … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Inde, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity report, Sol 5072, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
May 4, 2018: Opportunity Studies Mystery Rock, Mission Officials Seek 2019 Extension: Opportunity spent April further exploring the area about halfway down Perseverance Valley, checking out unusual, vesicular or pitted rocks the likes of which she has never seen, while … Continue reading
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Opportunity: False-color Pancam on pitted rocks
Sol 5073, May 2, 2018. With Opportunity parked at La Salinera, mission scientists used the Pancam to shoot a multi-filtered set of images of the pitted rocks next to the rover. (Holger Isenberg reconstructions; false colors vary across the composite … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, pitted rock, vesicular rock
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Opportunity: Perseverance Valley at the 2018 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
For the 15th year in a row, Opportunity and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission drove into the spotlight during an afternoon session at the 49th Lunar & Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), held in The Woodlands, Texas, in March. Known by its acronym, LPSC is where this … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, LPSC 2018, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity: Allende in closeup
Sol 5072, May 1, 2018. Parked at a pitted rock named Allende, Opportunity put the Microscopic Imager to work making a 2×2 composite view of the target. At right is the Hazcam view to the south with the rover arm … Continue reading
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Tagged Allende, Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity: Aiming at Allende
Sol 5070, April 29, 2018. On the weekend, Opportunity turned to square up to its next target, a rock dubbed Allende (arrow), seen in the Navcam view above. At right is a false-color (Holger Isenberg) Pancam view showing Allende in … Continue reading
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Tagged Allende, Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity: Moving into place
Sol 5068, April 27, 2018. Mission controllers have been driving Opportunity to where the rover can examine both the vesicular rocks and the tabular ones with comparative ease. So they drove the rover uphill, then turned, and went to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, vesicular rock
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Opportunity: Surveying a field of interest
Sol 5064, April 23, 2018. The rover’s Navcam shot a composite of four images looking over a nearby area of interest to mission scientists as they seek to determine the origin of the rocks on display here. In the foreground … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity: Pancam, far and near
Sol 5062, April 21, 2018. Opportunity turned the Pancam on a nearby patch of ground disturbed by the right-side wheels and also took a look at the tabular outcrop a little distance away. (False-color reconstructions by Holger Isenberg.) Click either … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity: Crushed rock in false color
Sol 5061, April 20, 2018. Mission scientists commanded the Pancam to shoot a series of filtered images along the line of vesicular rocks, part of which was crushed under Opportunity’s wheels in the last few sols. Click the image (false-color … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Salinera, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, vesicular rock
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