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Update: Spirit and Opportunity
SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit Gets the Drift - sol 41, Feb 14, 2004
On its 41st sol, which ended at 8:39 a.m. Saturday, PST, Spirit examined
the crest and trough of a drift formation encountered on its journey,
then moved to a nearby rock.
The rover used its microscopic imager, Moessbauer spectrometer and alpha
particle X-ray spectrometer on the drift material. Then it backed up
about 10 centimeters (4 inches), turned, and advanced about the same
distance to be in position for thoroughly examining the flaky rock
called "Mimi" during sol 42, which will end at 9:18 a.m. Sunday, PST.
Plans call for resuming long daily drives on sol 43 toward the crater
nicknamed "Bonneville" on the northeastern horizon.
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OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Rover Says "No" - sol 20, Feb 14, 2004
During Opportunity's 20th sol on Mars, which ended at 8:20 p.m. Friday,
PST, the rover told mission controllers "no." Opportunity received
commands in the morning to use the microscopic imager at the end of its
arm, but the onboard computer judged the requested arm movement to be
unacceptable and refused the command.
This was the proper precaution for the rover to take. The arm maneuver
had been tested with a simulation at JPL, and engineers subsequently
worked on a solution to make the ground testing more accurately predict
the rover computer's response to the particular arm-movement conditions
involved.
However, with the arm left extended, rather than stowed, after the
arm-movement command was refused, the rover also could not make the
drive that had been planned for the sol. That drive, to a site selected
for soil examination and trenching, was postponed until sol 21, which
ends at 9:00 p.m. Saturday, PST.
Observations by the panoramic camera and miniature thermal emission
spectrometer were completed successfully on sol 20. The sol's wake-up
music was "I Like Dirt," by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and "Pioneers of
Mars," by Karen Linsley and Lloyd Landa.
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73 de Alan, (Sysop ZL2AB).
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Points to ponder
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