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Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Roll Out on Mars at 12 AM PST 1-31-2004 (LIVE THREAD)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory ^ | 1-30-04 | NASA JPL

Posted on 01/30/2004 8:56:28 PM PST by bonesmccoy

The roll off of Opportunity from the lander pad at Meridiani Planum will occur at midnight tonight.

JPL NASA will be carried live on NASA TV.

JPL reports a 12 AM PST "Opportunity egree live coverage"

4 AM PST : Opportunity egress briefing


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KEYWORDS: jpl; mars; mer; nasa; opportunity
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
go back to bed . . . you're talking to yourself . . .
441 posted on 01/31/2004 10:53:05 AM PST by Phil V.
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To: bonesmccoy
How long would it take to drive the rover to where beagle was supposed to have landed?

Does anybody know?

thanks
442 posted on 01/31/2004 11:16:53 AM PST by deanjames
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To: Phil V.
I am taking the caffeine route, watching the replay of the Senate hearing with David Kay.

Will keep my hands off the keyboard till the caffeine takes effect!
443 posted on 01/31/2004 11:36:34 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: deanjames
two years . . . with good luck?
444 posted on 01/31/2004 12:05:40 PM PST by Phil V.
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To: deanjames
I did the calcs and came up with 7.33 days per mile. It was two weeks ago so I don't remember the parameters. I do know that I based it on 100% duty cycle and these rovers can't do that.

I could be wrong, but I think that I could get to the Beagle's landing site first by bicycle.

445 posted on 01/31/2004 1:14:49 PM PST by Eaker (Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. - Lazarus Long)
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To: RadioAstronomer
Thanks for the ping, RA! Sorry I missed the live thread, but grateful to have this opportunity to catch up. Looks like there are some great photos here.
446 posted on 01/31/2004 3:59:08 PM PST by bd476 (One More Landing on Mars, One Gigantic Proud Moment for the USA!)
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To: Professional Engineer
(Does Mars count for DXCC yet?)

Time to pester the ITU for some new prefixes.

447 posted on 01/31/2004 4:19:20 PM PST by Erasmus (Hams do it with high frequency)
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To: LibWhacker
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
448 posted on 01/31/2004 4:35:55 PM PST by Erasmus (Hams do it with high frequency)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
Always good to see a fellow Arizona State University alum on board. ASU and University of Arizona play a big part in the Spirit and Opportunity...
449 posted on 01/31/2004 4:41:07 PM PST by Central Scrutiniser (Its a pity, after all those years, Arnold never did find out what Willis was talkin bout...)
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To: ArmstedFragg
The tech side of TV was a lot harder then, but we managed to get by, helped, in large part, by the fact that the speed of light was only 65mph back in those days.

Unix hackers used to say, "Never understimate the bandwith of a '66 Buick station wagon filled with half-inch tapes."

450 posted on 01/31/2004 4:41:54 PM PST by Erasmus (Hams do it with high frequency)
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To: RadioAstronomer
Thanks for the ping. very busy lately.
Hope to catch up tomorrow.

But, Great news on the finding of gray hematite by Opportunity, [by infra-red spectroscopy] indicating formation in water.

Although gray hematite can be formed in oxygen-rich lava - not as likely.

451 posted on 01/31/2004 6:45:05 PM PST by edwin hubble
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To: Erasmus
Time to pester the ITU for some new prefixes.

Just wait til I get my tri-bander set up on Olympus Mons.

CQ CQ CQ this is ET1, echo tango 1, ET1 calling CQ and by for a call.

452 posted on 01/31/2004 6:52:11 PM PST by Professional Engineer (Spirit/Opportunity~0.002acres of sovereign US territory~All Your Mars Are Belong To Us)
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To: Erasmus
Unix hackers used to say, "Never understimate the bandwith of a '66 Buick station wagon filled with half-inch tapes."

We originally used two inch tapes with data written by four heads rotating at 7200 rpm. Bandwidth was always an issue with video, too. It's funny how some parts of technology change and others don't, in video we've gone from analog to digital, and from quad tape to recording direct to hard drives, but when it comes time to archive what we've done tape is still the medium of choice.

And that '66 Buick wagon will still hold a heck of a lot of programming.

453 posted on 01/31/2004 8:06:56 PM PST by ArmstedFragg
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To: Professional Engineer
Just wait til I get my tri-bander set up on Olympus Mons.

You can have Olympus. I just want one little patch of real estate on the south rim of Pavonis Mons - the highest point on the Marian equator.

That's where I'll build my skyhook.
454 posted on 02/01/2004 12:22:51 AM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Bob Zubrin for Secretary of Space)
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