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Update: Spirit and Opportunity
SPIRIT UPDATE: Open the Door - sol 80, Mar 25, 2004
On sol 80, which ended at 10:23 a.m. PST on March 25, NASA's Mars
Exploration Rover Spirit repeated overnight measurements of "Illinois"
and "New York," two targets on the rock "Mazatzal." The measurements
needed to be repeated because the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer's
doors inadvertently did not open during the prior sol. In honor of doors
being stuck partially open, sol 80's wake up song was "Open the Door" by
Otis Redding.
Mazatzal is one of an apparent class of "light-toned rocks," which may
be common in the area where Spirit landed in Gusev. This rock appears to
be a "ventifact," which means it may have been carved by the steady
winds that scientists know come from the northwest into the top area of
this crater rim.
The plan for sol 81, which will end at 11:02 a.m. on March 26 PST, is to
grind into Mazatzal with the rock abrasion tool.
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OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Browsing Bright Material - sol 59, Mar 25, 2004
Opportunity spent sol 59, which ended at 10:04 p.m. PST, placing the
Mössbauer spectrometer on the bright material it approached yestersol,
and conducting more remote sensing observations.
This relatively light workload allowed the rover to recover energy for
the next sol's activities. Those will include completing an alpha
particle X-ray spectrometer read on the same soil target and initiating
the panoramic mosaic image from the rover's current position.
The wake-up tune for the sol was "59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling
Groovy)" by Simon and Garfunkel.
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