[meteorite-list] Curiosity Rover Completes Longest Drive Yet
Ron Baalke
baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov
Wed Sep 5 14:45:44 EDT 2012
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1334
Rover Completes Longest Drive Yet
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
September 5, 2012
Curiosity completed a drive of 100 feet (30.5 meters) during
the mission's Sol 29, on Sept. 4, 2012, traveling southeastward
with a dogleg move partway through the drive to skirt some sand.
This was the mission's longest drive so far and brought total
driving distance to 358 feet (109 meters).
A Navigation Camera image with a wheel track from the Sol 29
drive is in the mission's collection of raw images, at
http://1.usa.gov/OWxGIT .
Curiosity continues to work in good health. Sol 29, in Mars
local mean solar time at Gale Crater, ended at 2:37 a.m.
Sept. 5, PDT.
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