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Mars Rover Update: Spirit Hunkers Down, Opportunity on the Move By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 19 May 2006 04:19 pm ET Those "never say die" robots on MarsNASAs Spirit and Opportunitycontinue to chalk up science at their respective exploration sites. Opportunity Mars rover is wheeling across Meridiani Planum toward Victoria Crater a feature that promises to be spectacular in view but also surrender data about the red planets past. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Looming large for the Opportunity rover at Meridiani Planum is Victoria Cratera grand bit of territory thats roughly half a mile (800 meters) in diameter. Thats about six times wider than Endurance Crater, a feature that the rover previously surveyed for several months in 2004, gathering data on rock layers there that were affected by water of long, long ago. "We are closing in ... weve got only about a kilometer to go now," said Steve Squyres, lead scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York for the dual Mars exploration rovers. "Feel free to work out your own guess at an estimated time of arrival based on our recent progressbut Im not making any predictions! Mars has fooled us too many times before," Squyres told SPACE.com. Lay of the land Pushing across Meridiani Planum has not been easy for Opportunity. The landscape is one of rolling ripples of sand and splashes of outcrop rock. "Were pushing as hard as we can with a very old rover," Squyres added. "Well get there when and if we get there." Once there, Squyres said that the plan is to approach that feature much as they did Endurance Crater. "[Well] start by taking images from several points along the rim to get the lay of the landand then see if theres a place where we can enter the crater safely," Squyres said. "Theres no guarantee that well be able to get in, of course, but were not driving all this way just for the view." Rim shots Also anxiously awaiting Opportunitys hoped for wheeling up to Victoria Crater is William Farrand, a research scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He is a member of the Mars Exploration Rover science team. "The rover has been making good progress towards Victoria Crater. Soknock on woodit should get there perhaps as early as late July," Farrand told SPACE.com. "We will be getting just amazing images when we get to the rim of Victoria Crater." Farrand said the views at that feature are sure to be spectacular. But the real payoff, he added, is to check out the exposures of outcrop that the science team is expecting to see on the inner walls of Victoria Crater. "Opportunitys mission has been all about reading the story contained within the layered rocks that lie just below the surface of Meridiani Planum," Farrand advised. "We got about 40 to 50 centimeters of outcrop at Eagle Crater [at the start of its roving] and then 7 meters at Endurance Crater." However, at Victoria, it looks like theres a deeper story there. Images taken from Mars orbit suggest there might be something like 65 feet (20 meters) of outcrop exposed within the walls of Victoria Crater, Farrand stated. It is still not clear whether rover scientists will be able to get into the crater to do the type of detailed, on-the-spot analysis that they were able to do within the inner rim of Endurance Crater. But Farrand said that by utilizing Opportunitys Panoramic Camera and Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer, researchers should be able to do some tremendous remote sensing at that locale. Spirit: making it through winter And on the other side of Mars within Gusev crater, sistership Spirit is devotedly engaged in gathering science data too. Its in need of a little dental work, however. The robots grinding teeth have worn away on its arm-mounted rock abrasion toolbut only after exposing interiors of five time more rock targets than its design goal of three rocks. The tool still has useful wire bristles for brushing targets. "Spirit has been very busy lately, taking an enormous panorama that we call the McMurdo Pan," Squyres reported. The robot is doing lots of work with its robot armofficially labeled, in mechanical jargon, as the Instrument Deployment Device, or IDD. Spirit has been positioned in such a way that its solar panels can help the machine endure several months of Martian winter. The power on Spirit is good, Squyres noted. Projections of the rovers overall health, he said, suggest the robot will make it through the martian winter and be able to keep doing science the whole time. "One thing about staying in one place for a long time is that it enables lots of interesting science that just isnt possible when youre always moving. Were taking advantage of that now with Spirit," Squyres explained. The "eyes" have it Both Spirit and Opportunity are churning out travelogue-like photos of their respective treks over Mars. The eyes of the robots their camera systems are capturing a wide range of scenery along the way. "All of the cameras continue to work remarkably well and are continuing to acquire beautiful images," said astronomer Jim Bell, the Panoramic camera (Pancam) payload element lead for the Mars exploration rovers at Cornell University. "They have proven to be extremely robust to the extreme conditions on the martian surfacelarge temperature swings, fine dust everywhere, large cosmic ray flux," he told SPACE.com. Since the twin rovers independently landed on Mars in January 2004, Spirits cameras have taken about 82,000 pictures. Opportunity has taken about 71,500 pictures - for a total down-linked image data volume of about 19 gigabytes. Of these, 54,400 and 49,500 are the high-resolution Pancam images, respectively, Bell said. "At Meridiani, once we get to Victoria Crater in June or July we are obviously looking forward to remarkable views of the interior," Bell said, and to help identify possible routes to explore even deeper exposures of sedimentary outcrop rocks. "At Gusev, we are hunkered down for the winter now, obtaining detailed chemical measurements on reachable rocks and soils and acquiring the gigantic 360° McMurdo panorama with little or no compression in all [camera] filters from our winter haven parking spot," Bell said. Up there on Mars, Bell concluded, "the missions just keep rocking on!"

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