Mars and Me

The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver, five years delayed

2012-04-06

Captain's Log, Supplemental: A Final Word

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So that's it -- that's where my life got too complicated to continue transcribing what happened each day on MER. It's been a bl...
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Opportunity Sol 1138 (Spirit Sol 1158)

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It couldn't be a better day to be on shift with Tara and Julie, because we have a visitor. The visitor is Brenda's surgeon's da...
2012-04-05

Opportunity Sol 1136 (Spirit Sol 1157)

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We come in all hot to drive to the dark streak east of us -- and are sorely disappointed. We had a joint-1 stall in the IDD sequence yester...
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2012-03-31

Opportunity Sol 1131 (Spirit Sol 1152)

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We had a perfect bump to the rim yestersol, and we're now ready to take the first eye of our long-baseline stereo here. Then, later thi...
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2012-03-30

Opportunity Sol 1130 (Spirit Sol 1151)

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Now this is unusual. Squyres is normally the most committed, gung-ho guy in the room, after Yours Truly. But today he gently asks if we ca...
2012-03-24

Opportunity Sol 1126 (Spirit Sol 1145)

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... and I'm back to the other side of the planet. Today it's a drive -- a short one, but still. We're going 10m blind and anot...
2012-03-23

Spirit Sol 1144

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I like Torquas, mainly because for some reason it's easy to create catchy sequence names incorporating it. "Tool Change on Torquas...
2012-03-20

Captain's Log, Supplemental: All Good Things

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Just to give y'all a heads-up ... I wrote these blog posts contemporaneously with the events they describe, five years ago as you read t...
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Spirit Sol 1141

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Today we're headed to a chunk of rock called Torquas -- from Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars novels, continuing the long-overdue theme o...
2012-03-15

Spirit Sol 1136

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Let's see, we're back on Spirit now, so we're driving around ... oh, yeah, Home Plate! Or, rather, Mitcheltree Ridge, where the...
2012-03-06

Opportunity Sol 1107 (Spirit Sol 1128)

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The bump to the rim of Cabo Corrientes went well. The drive currents on the RF wheel were a little high, so Paolo recommends we do this bum...
2012-03-03

Opportunity Sol 1105 (Spirit Sol 1125)

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It's a straightforward day in the Land of Opportunity as we bump all of about 8m to the rim of Cabo Corrientes, setting ourselves up to ...
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At night, there's a small red light in the sky. On that light lives four hundred pounds of thinking metal sent from Earth. I tell that metal what to do, and it does it.
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