[meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rover Update - June 10, 2005

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jun 11 19:07:41 2005
Message-ID: <200506112307.j5BN70O21636_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html

OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Opportunity is out! - sol 484-489,
June 10, 2005:

Success! Opportunity made forward progress to free itself
from the Purgatory Dune! Another exciting achievement for
the week was the healthy return of data from the Mini-TES
instrument, which the mission team turned back on for the
first time in 47 sols. The rover also returned pancam and
navcam images, and the team is now planning the rover's
next drive on sol 490.

Sol Details:

Sol 484: 20 meters (65.62 feet) commanded; 14 meters
(45.93 feet) executed, 98.4 centimeters (38.74 inches)
progress. Opportunity is out of Purgatory Dune!

Sol 485: This was the second sol of a 2-sol plan. The team
planned to drive, but didn't send the drive sequences to
the rover because the rover was already out of the dune.

Sol 486: This was the third sol of a 3-sol plan. Again, the
team planned to drive, but didn't send the drive sequences
because Opportunity were already out of the dune. The team
took post-drive imaging, including a navcam of the trench.

Sol 487: The team took a pancam of the tracks and then turned
on the Mini-TES for the first time after the sol 440 anomaly.
Mini-TES rasters were taken of of Purgatory Dune and
Ante-Purgatory Dune. The team was excited to receive healthy
data products from this activity!

Sol 488: On this remote-sensing sol, the rover took a
360-degree navcam panorama and a pancam image of the magnets,
and then deep slept for the night.

Sol 489: On this remote-sensing sol, the rover took a 13-filter
pancam image of Purgatory tracks and deep slept for the night.

As of sol 489, distance traveled is 5347.89 meters (3.32 miles).
Received on Sat 11 Jun 2005 07:07:00 PM PDT