Once again, I'm in on the weekend -- rather, on a holiday, this time -- to check Opportunity's progress and ensure she's safe to continue. The images show up a few minutes after I do, and again they show a clear road ahead. She put about 104m on the wheels thisol, all of it autonav. I don't know whether we set an autonav record yestersol, but if we did, we beat it thisol. In any case, this is definitely a record; whatever the previous autonav max was, I know it was under 100m.
Once again, we're ready to let the rover proceed on her own for an entire sol. Mark's happy, Art's gleeful. And I'm euphoric.
[Next post: sol 407 (Opportunity sol 387), February 24.]
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Are we getting close to the time when Opportunity got itself stuck in sand due to all this blind driving?
@AySz88 Mars was still lulling us into a false sense of complacency, and was a long way from being ready to spring its trap. At this point, that incident is still a couple of months or so in the future.
How far in the past are "current" posts?
@Kyle Five years exactly.
Oh, ok. Thanks!
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