[meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rover Update - June 10, 2005

[Ron Baalke]

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html

OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Opportunity is out! - sol 484-489, 
June 10, 2005:

Success! Opportunity made forward progress to free itself 
from the Purgatory Dune! Another exciting achievement for 
the week was the healthy return of data from the Mini-TES 
instrument, which the mission team turned back on for the 
first time in 47 sols. The rover also returned pancam and 
navcam images, and the team is now planning the rover's 
next drive on sol 490.

Sol Details:

Sol 484: 20 meters (65.62 feet) commanded; 14 meters 
(45.93 feet) executed, 98.4 centimeters (38.74 inches) 
progress. Opportunity is out of Purgatory Dune!

Sol 485: This was the second sol of a 2-sol plan. The team 
planned to drive, but didn't send the drive sequences to 
the rover because the rover was already out of the dune.

Sol 486: This was the third sol of a 3-sol plan. Again, the 
team planned to drive, but didn't send the drive sequences 
because Opportunity were already out of the dune. The team 
took post-drive imaging, including a navcam of the trench.

Sol 487: The team took a pancam of the tracks and then turned 
on the Mini-TES for the first time after the sol 440 anomaly. 
Mini-TES rasters were taken of of Purgatory Dune and 
Ante-Purgatory Dune. The team was excited to receive healthy 
data products from this activity!

Sol 488: On this remote-sensing sol, the rover took a 
360-degree navcam panorama and a pancam image of the magnets, 
and then deep slept for the night.

Sol 489: On this remote-sensing sol, the rover took a 13-filter 
pancam image of Purgatory tracks and deep slept for the night.

As of sol 489, distance traveled is 5347.89 meters (3.32 miles).