Tag Archives: Spirit of St. Louis Crater

Opportunity field report: April 3, 2015

Posted on April 8, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3978 (April 3, 2015) Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: Opportunity has been examining a bright outcrop here before getting on with the business of exploring Marathon Valley. … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 3, 2015 by rburnham

April 3, 2015: Opportunity Finishes First Marathon on Another Planet and Roves On It began as a day like thousands of others for the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission, but it ended in a way no other sol or Martian … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Spirit of St. Louis Crater puzzles

Posted on March 30, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3974, March 29, 2015. While the rover’s instrument arm is busy with the Athens outcrop, the Pancam looks generally eastward over Spirit of St. Louis Crater (left side). In the distance stands the hazy profile of Endeavour Crater’s far … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Approaching Athens

Posted on March 25, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3969, March 25, 2015. Opportunity’s next target is a light-toned outcrop dubbed Athens, seen here in a two-frame Navcam composite. Note the faint darkening across the closer part of the outcrop, which may indicate chemical changes in the rock, … Continue reading →

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Opportunity update: ‘A Mars marathon!’

Posted on March 25, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3968, March 24, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: With the drive on Sol 3968, Opportunity has traveled more than a marathon’s distance on the surface of Mars!  This is the first time that any spacecraft has exceeded … Continue reading →

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Opportunity completes Mars marathon

Posted on March 24, 2015 by rburnham

There was no tape draped across a finish line, but NASA is celebrating a win. The agency’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity completed its first Red Planet marathon Tuesday — 26.219 miles (42.195 kilometers) — with a finish time of roughly … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Circling Spirit of St. Louis Crater

Posted on March 24, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3968, March 24, 2015. Having driven around the west end of Spirit of St. Louis Crater, the rover turned its Navcam back toward the east to shoot a three-frame composite. This shows the low-relief crater with its dark infill … Continue reading →

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Opportunity flash memory reformatted

Posted on March 23, 2015 by rburnham

After avoiding use of the rover’s flash memory for three months, the team operating NASA’s 11-year-old Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reformatted the vehicle’s flash memory banks and resumed storing some data overnight for transmitting later. The team received confirmation … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Rubble pile, Spirit of St. Louis Crater

Posted on March 23, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3967, March 23, 2015. Six Pancam frames make a composite image showing the rock pile at the east end of almost-eradicated Spirit of St. Louis Crater. In the background rises Swann Hill. (Click the image to load a larger … Continue reading →

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Opportunity: Spirit of St. Louis Crater

Posted on March 20, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 3963, March 19, 2015. Flat except for the small rubble pile (left center), Spirit of St. Louis Crater fills the entire foreground from left to right — yet its oval outline appears hardly distinguishable from the ground around it. … Continue reading →

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