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Subj: Rovers Status, 7th March
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Update: Spirit and Opportunity
SPIRIT UPDATE: Rolling Along - sol 62, Mar 07, 2004
During its 62nd sol on Mars, ending at 10:30 p.m. Saturday, PST, NASA's
Spirit advanced about one-fifth of the remaining distance between where
it began the sol and its mid-term destination, the rim of the crater
nicknamed "Bonneville." In the martian afternoon, Spirit took images and
infrared readings of the area right in front of its stopping place to
support the following morning's close-up inspection of that new location
with instruments on the rover's robotic arm.
Spirit drove 26.15 meters (85.8 feet) on sol 62, bringing its odometer
total to 250.71 meters (822.5 feet). Some of the drive maneuvered around
obstacles. The net gain in the northeasterly direction toward the crater
rim was 22 meters (72 feet), and that destination was estimated to be
about 88 meters (289 feet) away from Spirit's new location. The
miniature thermal emission spectrometer was used for ground and sky
observations both before and after the drive.
The wake-up song for the sol was "My First Trip to Mars," by Atticus Fault.
For sol 62, ending at 11:10 p.m. Sunday, PST, Spirit's agenda is to
drive on toward the crater rim after using the microscope and
spectrometers on its arm to inspect the site where it wakes up.
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OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: No Hole This Time - sol 42, Mar 07, 2004
NASA's Opportunity attempted to grind a shallow hole into a target
called "Flat Rock" during its 42nd sol on Mars, ending at 10:51 a.m.
Sunday, PST. However, the operation of the rover's rock abrasion tool
produced almost no discernable impression on the rock. All indications
are that the tool is healthy. Controllers plan to run some diagnostic
tests during sol 43 (ending at 11:31 a.m. Monday, PST) to aid with
tuning parameters for a second grinding attempt on the target on sol 44.
Opportunity observed the Sun with its panoramic camera on sol 42 as a
practice run for future imaging of Mars' moon Phobos passing in front of
the Sun. The alpha particle X-ray spectrometer was placed against "Flat
Rock" for an overnight reading to identify the chemical elements present.
Wake-up song for the sol was "Break on Through (to the Other Side)," by
The Doors.
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73 de Alan, (Sysop ZL2AB).
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