[meteorite-list] Mars Exploration Rover Update - June 24, 2005

[Ron Baalke]

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

SPIRIT UPDATE: On the Move - sol 518-524, June 24, 2005

Spirit started this week by completing two remote sensing sols on June
18 and 19 (sols 518 and 519). The rover made observations with its
panoramic camera, navigation camera, and miniature thermal emission
spectrometer.

Spirit completed a complex drive plan on June 20 (sol 520), and drove 38
meters (125 feet)!

Spirit continued to drive on June 21 (sol 521) using visual odometry,
and drove 9 meters (30 feet).

On June 22 (sol 522), Spirit performed remote sensing including
panoramic camera observations with 13 different filters, navigation
camera observations of dust devils, panoramic and navigation camera
images of the rear tracks, and miniature thermal emission spectrometer
observations after the afternoon communication session with the Mars
Odyssey orbiter.

Spirit drove again on June 23 (sol 523) for 12 meters (39 feet).

More driving is planned for June 24, 2005.

Total odometry as of the end of sol 523 (June 23, 2005) is 4,530.51
meters (2.82 miles).