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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... Related Links Mars Rovers at JPL Mars Rovers at Cornell SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
Spirit Continues To Climb
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 17, 2005Spirit has completed investigations with its robotic arm on "Assemblee" rock. The investigation included pictures taken with the microscopic imager, 92 hours of Moessbauer spectrometer integration, and alpha particle X-ray spectrometer work on the target "Gruyere." |
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