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Opportunity's Right-Front Wheel Recovering
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 10, 2009 Opportunity continues to make good progress driving. The rover continued to drive south on sols 2050, 2051, 2054, 2055 and 2056, (Oct. 30, 31, Nov. 3, 4 and 5, 2009) totaling over 260 meters (853 feet). The right-front wheel is now showing a return of elevated motor currents. The plan ahead is to rest the actuator during an extended stop for an in-situ (contact) science campaign. The rover continues to command the miniature thermal emission spectrometer (Mini-TES) elevation mirror open each sol in an attempt to clear some of the putative dust off the elevation mirror. To date, no improvement in the Mini-TES has been observed. As of Sol 2056 (Nov. 5, 2009), Opportunity's solar-array energy production is 376 watt-hours, with an atmospheric opacity (tau) of 0.548 and a dust factor of 0.527. Total odometry is 18,886.95 meters (11.73 miles). Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Spirit Dealing With Flash AccessPasadena CA (SPX) Nov 10, 2009 Spirit is still suffering from the inability to access the on-board, non-volatile (flash) memory file system. However, the operations team has developed a strategy to allow science activities to continue. To ensure that science data collected by Spirit is returned to Earth, the team has been keeping Spirit awake each sol from the morning communication session through the data relay via the ... read more |
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