Erebus Bound

MARSDAILY

Erebus Bound

Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 20, 2005
Opportunity has resumed normal operations this week. The rover is healthy and making progress towards "Erebus Crater." The rover team has been commanding Opportunity to drive every chance it gets. The last two sols this week have been remote sensing only, due to a lack of critical data.

Sol-by-sol summaries

Sols 580 and 581 (Sept. 10 and 11, 2005): The weekend included a 26.3-meter (86-foot) drive with observations before and after the drive.

Sol 582: A 30-meter (98-foot) drive this sol brought the rover to the "Erebus Highway�" an outcrop-rich area that extends south toward the crater.

Sol 583: The previous sol's drive appears to have completed successfully, however no data was received due to an issue at the Deep Space Network station where the data is received from space and transmitted to JPL.

Sol 584: Remote sensing was performed, which included as systematic foreground survey using the panoramic camera and miniature thermal emission spectrometer. The plan included commands for the rover to re-transmit the critical post-drive data to Earth, but these were not received due to a sequencing error.

Sol 585 (Sept. 15, 2005): This sol's plan included commands for remote sensing and for re-transmission of the post-drive imaging.

Total odometry as of sol 584 (Sept. 14, 2005): 5,874.32 meters or 3.65 miles.

MARSDAILY

Spirit Finds New Rock Type; Opportunity Hastens Towards Erebus

Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 19, 2005
It's been quite awhile since I've done one of these updates, but I'm now back in Ithaca and spending all my time on flight operations again.. which feels really good!

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