Tag Archives: Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse

Opportunity report, Sol 4331, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society

Posted on April 4, 2016 by rburnham

April 4, 2016: Opportunity Soldiers through Martian March Madness: As March Madness on Earth sent sports fans into their annual kinetic frenzy watching more than 60 American teams battle it out for college basketball’s grandest title, Opportunity was experiencing her … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Moving higher for firmer ground & clay minerals

Posted on March 23, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4323, March 23, 2016. Opportunity is exploring Marathon Valley because orbital spectrometry found exposures of water-altered clay minerals in the valley. But with the ground proving too loose to allow Opportunity to reach its intended outcrop target at Pvt. … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Doing donuts in the dirt

Posted on March 22, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4322, March 21, 2016. While the rover can’t get up the slope of Knudsen Ridge to examine the Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse target close up, the Pancam (in Holger Isenberg‘s color reconstruction) reveals interesting, if subtle, variations in the churned … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Pancam at Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse

Posted on March 3, 2016 by rburnham

Sols 4303-04, March 2-3, 2016. Opportunity is parked at the foot of Knudsen Ridge, where the Pancam is using multi-wavelength images to document the target dubbed Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse. Below is a composite using false-color images by Holger Isenberg. At … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Studying Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse

Posted on February 26, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 4298, February 26, 2016. As the Navcam shoots a sequence from its study area at the foot of Knudsen Ridge down Marathon Valley to the east (above), the Pancam takes two multi-filtered frames on a target named Pvt. Joseph … Continue reading →

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