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Update: Spirit and Opportunity
SPIRIT UPDATE: Monitoring Magnets on Mars - sol 92, Apr 07, 2004
Spirit awoke on sol 92, which ended at 7:18 p.m. PST on April 6, and
completed some early morning panoramic camera sky and ground
measurements. Spirit also took a look at the capture and filter magnets
with the panoramic camera prior to taking a short mid-morning nap. Upon
wake-up around 12:30 p.m. Mars Local Solar Time, the rover opened the
doors on the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer and took 3 images of each
magnet. Spirit also placed the Moessbauer spectrometer on the capture
magnet and began an integration.
In the afternoon, Spirit completed coordinated observations with the
thermal emission spectrometer instrument on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor
orbiter. The observations involved miniature thermal emission
spectrometer pre-flight, simultaneous, and post-flight sky and ground
measurements. Spirit also collected a panoramic camera opacity observation.
Early on Sol 93, which ends at 7:57 p.m. on April 7, the rover will
switch the instruments on its instrument deployment device from the
Moessbauer spectrometer to the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer. Sol 93
is the last day for newly planned science observations, as Spirit will
be getting a flight software update during sols 94-98.
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OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Traveling Around the Trough - sol 72, Apr 07, 2004
"The Wanderer" by Dion and the Belmonts woke Opportunity on its 72nd
sol, which ended at 7:39 a.m. PST on April 7. The rover drove around the
sinuous trough in a long dogleg pattern. Remote sensing to examine the
crevice was conducted on the 50-meter (164 feet) drive to its ultimate
position for the sol, at the northeast extreme of "Anatolia."
On sol 73, the rover will perform a trenching operation in the soil.
During the following sol, the instrument's arm will be placed on the
trenched area.
The planned flight software upload will begin on Opportunity's 75th sol.
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73 de Alan, (Sysop ZL2AB).
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Points to ponder
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Rural wisdom
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Don't name a pig you plan to eat.
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