Mars and Me

Surprise, surprise, the drive went exactly where it was supposed to go. Most of the participants in the SOWG meeting couldn't be happie...

The drive went perfectly. We're now on the other side of the flankshield, with the section of interest directly behind us. There's...

Everything went well over Xmas, and yestersol Jeff and Frank drove to the next spot, maybe ten meters from the broken-off fragment of the he...

"Nice job!" Ray says as I walk into the SOWG meeting. It looks like our drive went just about perfectly, though some of the post-...

[Yes, this makes two sols in a row labeled "Opportunity Sol 325." That's because we spent two Earth days working on this sol,...

It's a skip sol -- the drive we planned yesterday hasn't even started executing yet, so we can't sequence the next one. But bec...

Despite my misgivings about it, the drive appears to have gone splendidly. The heat shield looks significantly closer, though range data in...

I'm back upstairs in the Land of Opportunity. Looks like an easy one: MIing the solar panels (using a canned sequence) and then a 60m d...

"Do you know what happened?" Matt Golombek asks me. I sigh inwardly. As I figured out a long time ago, that's never good new...

Lots of slip, little progress. What else is new? At this rate, I don't stand a chance of hitting that 4km mark. So it's another da...

Yestersol's drive ended about 1m short of the third waypoint, so we didn't execute the stutter-step at the end. But we did turn for...

"Welcome back to the A-Team," Chris says as I walk in to begin my first Spirit shift since ... uh .... It's a stow-and-go sol....

Spirit is approaching the 4km mark; they might make it as early as today. It's a shame I won't get to do that drive, but I've c...

We're not driving thisol, which is as expected. But we might not drive nextersol either, since the RAT hole we dug over the weekend did...

We were supposed to start at 11:00 yesterday, but they moved it up to 10:00. Worse, today we were supposed to start at 13:00, but they move...

I've been off shift for the last week and a half, and clearly something changed. When I show up to drive Opportunity, I'm confronte...

We're continuing the trek out of the crater, today with Jeff and me at the helm. Mostly it's a straightforward drive sol, following...

"This is an historic turning point in the Opportunity mission," declares Squyres. "Literally a turning point." What he...

Opportunity's been sitting at the base of Burns Cliff, taking pictures, so they haven't needed a rover driver for a while. We were ...

The trivial IDD sequence went well, so thisol we'll stow and go. Stowing is easy. The hard part is going. It's hard because Spirit...