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Spirit Approaches Husband Hill Summit
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2005 Just a quick one today. We had a great drive with Spirit on Sol 576, and we're now approaching the summit region of Husband Hill. What we've learned from the latest images is that the thing we've been calling Summit 1 - which we had thought from orbital images was the lower of the two summits - is actually the higher one. So we're bound for Summit 1 now, instead of Summit 2. Near as we can tell, we're only about six vertical meters below it, and the path from here to there does not seem to present any impassable barriers. The view is getting pretty spectacular, too, with the peaks south of Husband Hill now suddenly in sight. It shouldn't be long. Oh, yeah, and the cobble we looked at with Opportunity isn't a meteorite, it's a martian rock... and one that's very different from anything we've ever seen before. Busy times... Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Mars Rovers at JPL Mars Rovers at Cornell SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Mars News and Information at MarsDaily.com Lunar Dreams and more
Spirit Heading To 'Home Plate'
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 09, 2006Last week Spirit completed robotic-arm work on "El Dorado." The rover used all three of its spectrometers plus the microscopic imager for readings over the New Year's weekend. |
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