Tag Archives: Spirit of St. Louis Crater

Opportunity: Close-up on Pvt. John Dame

Posted on July 8, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 4071, July 8, 2015. The target named for Pvt. John Dame, one of the Lewis & Clark expedition members, lies in the “red zone” of altered rocks on the edge of Spirit of St. Louis Crater. (Another is Pvt. … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Salamis, in color

Posted on July 8, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 4070, July 6, 2015. A shallow dimple in the bedrock, dubbed Salamis, is the subject of a series of filtered Pancam images, converted into a color composite by Holger Isenberg. (Note the rover wheeltrack across the feature.) Opportunity raw … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Marathon Valley, for 7th Mars winter

Posted on July 7, 2015 by rburnham

Operators of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity plan to drive the rover into a valley this month where Opportunity will be active through the long-lived rover’s seventh Martian winter, examining outcrops that contain clay minerals….  The rover is operating in … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Lindbergh Mound in false color

Posted on July 6, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 4066, July 2, 2015. Two multi-filtered Pancam frames let Holger Isenberg make a false-color composite of the enigmatic Lindbergh Mound. Click on the image to open a larger version in a new tab; click here to download a full-size … Continue reading →

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Opportunity report, Sol 4064, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society

Posted on July 2, 2015 by rburnham

July 3, 2015: Opportunity Phones Home after Conjunction Healthy, Ready to Rove: After three weeks of being in a communications blackout on the other side of the Sun during the Earth-Mars solar conjunction, Opportunity phoned home from the rim of Spirit … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Close-up on ‘red edge’ target

Posted on July 1, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 4064, June 30, 2015. As the front Hazcam imaged the rover amid a rock field on the “red edge” of Spirit of St. Louis Crater, the Microscopic Imager made a two-frame composite (below right) of a rough target rock. … Continue reading →

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Opportunity field report: June 26, 2015

Posted on June 30, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 4060 (June 26, 2015) Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: Opportunity is back in communication after the two-week blackout of solar conjunction. We will be cleaning up activities … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Out of conjunction

Posted on June 29, 2015 by rburnham

Sols 4059 and 4062, June 25 and 28, 2015. Pancam images profile Swann Hill (above, in a color reconstruction by Holger Isenberg) and the enigmatic Lindbergh Mound in the left-side #2 filter (below). Each image enlarges into a new tab … Continue reading →

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Opportunity field report: June 4, 2015

Posted on June 5, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 4039 (June 4, 2015) Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: Opportunity is now  on the other side of the Sun and will remain out of contact for about … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: False-color surface rocks & dirt

Posted on June 4, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 4037, June 3, 2015. A false-color composite by Holger Isenberg of seven Pancam images reveals variations in the mineralogy of the rocks and dirt in front of the rover. (Click the image to load a larger version.) This area lies … Continue reading →

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