Re: Spirt and Opportunity Mission Thread
 

Spirit was suppost to drive about 20 meters today towards an impact crater, but instead it imaged the RATed hole with the PANcam and MiniTES. Apparently, back when Spirit first malfunctioned with the RAM problem, a hold was placed on driving, and engineers never reset that trip.

Teams here can learn from this! If you open the bleed valve for the compressor to lower an arm after a match, make sure you close it! Same goes for other switches on your control board, if things are in funny places, then unexpected things happen. Unexpected things tend to be bad.


Wetzel

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's ...plan old Dave.
 

Hey look, it's Dave!


Wetzel

Re: Spirt and Opportunity Mission Thread
 

Blue

What's the blue stuff? From all the other pictures there hasn't been anything that's been remotely colored like that. hmmmmm

Re: Spirt and Opportunity Mission Thread
 

notable conspiracy theories:

The Coverup:
I found the real NASA panorama [jpl.nasa.gov] and sure enough, by blowing up that small section in the full uncompressed TIFF image and applying similar contrast/levels filters in photoshop, I was able to acheive the same results (although not as completely overexagerated as in that last frame).
"But Dan, obviously thats only a bug in the stitching of the mosiac shot!"
Oh what a perfect excuse... make a stitched mosiac, and anything you need to cover up is just a problem in the stitching... riiiight

The slotted rock:
"Hey Dan, I think its time to put away that tin-foil hat."
Hey! just TRY and tell me that "forces" like "water" or "wind" could carve not only a perflectly flat face onto a rock, but also a perfectly rectangular hole which obviously was used for attaching the rock to something at one point in time.
more [jpl.nasa.gov] and the gallery [jpl.nasa.gov]

And finally...

er, whoops... wrong link... hold on a sec...


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[EDIT EDIT]
*Angry rant deleted due to the fact that now I have a cooler head...*

Satire: A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.

This post was designed to poke fun at the conspiracy nuts. For those who bombarded me with negative rep: people do make use of tone on the Internet. Please learn to look for it.

Re: Spirt and Opportunity Mission Thread
 

Re: Spirt and Opportunity Mission Thread
 

Look whos talking.
:p

Wetzel

Re: Spirt and Opportunity Mission Thread
 

I think you guys have watched 'Wag the Dog' too many times. ;)

Re: Spirt and Opportunity Mission Thread
 

It's not really blue. It is just the particular filters that were used when the image was taken with the PanCam instrument removed out the dominant red frequencies from the scene, and the remaining tones contained more blue than any other hue. In other words, there is more blue to the sphericles than other elements in the image, but the blue is overwhelmed by the red components. To the human eye, the little sphericles apear a dark red-grey.

All that said, we still don't know what those little things are...

-dave

Re: Spirt and Opportunity Mission Thread
 

So, who's naming all the rocks? Snout was my favorite, but it's been changed to Stone Mountain. And I see that there's a White Boat now... but no new information on the "blueberries"...

Heidi

Re: Spirt and Opportunity Mission Thread
 

Spirit drove 70 feet on Monday night. New all-time one day distance record on Mars.

Opportunity is currently driving along the bedrock and taking pictures here and there. 'Checking out the salad bar and going back later to get what you want'

Wetzel