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Captain's Log, Supplemental: A Final Word 7 Apr 2012 | 12:09 pm
So that's it -- that's where my life got too complicated to continue transcribing what happened each day on MER. It's been a blast to revisit MER's early days -- it all flows by so fast when it's happ...
Opportunity Sol 1138 (Spirit Sol 1158) 7 Apr 2012 | 12:08 pm
It couldn't be a better day to be on shift with Tara and Julie, because we have a visitor. The visitor is Brenda's surgeon's daughter, Amanda. She's graduating from high school and is interested in ro...
Opportunity Sol 1136 (Spirit Sol 1157) 6 Apr 2012 | 11:28 am
We come in all hot to drive to the dark streak east of us -- and are sorely disappointed. We had a joint-1 stall in the IDD sequence yesterday. So today turns into a less exciting one; we just have to...
Opportunity Sol 1131 (Spirit Sol 1152) 1 Apr 2012 | 08:10 am
We had a perfect bump to the rim yestersol, and we're now ready to take the first eye of our long-baseline stereo here. Then, later thisol, we'll creep 5m along the rim to the position where we'll tak...
Opportunity Sol 1130 (Spirit Sol 1151) 31 Mar 2012 | 07:30 am
Now this is unusual. Squyres is normally the most committed, gung-ho guy in the room, after Yours Truly. But today he gently asks if we can do whatever we can do to make it possible for him to leave e...
Opportunity Sol 1126 (Spirit Sol 1145) 25 Mar 2012 | 03:33 am
... and I'm back to the other side of the planet. Today it's a drive -- a short one, but still. We're going 10m blind and another 15m on autonav, around Victoria, toward the (misnamed!) Valley Without...
Spirit Sol 1144 24 Mar 2012 | 02:53 am
I like Torquas, mainly because for some reason it's easy to create catchy sequence names incorporating it. "Tool Change on Torquas" is today's sequence -- sounds like it oughta be an Edgar Rice Borrou...
Captain's Log, Supplemental: All Good Things 21 Mar 2012 | 05:28 pm
Just to give y'all a heads-up ... I wrote these blog posts contemporaneously with the events they describe, five years ago as you read them. At some point, though, I simply ran out of time to keep up....
Spirit Sol 1141 21 Mar 2012 | 12:54 am
Today we're headed to a chunk of rock called Torquas -- from Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars novels, continuing the long-overdue theme of Mars-related science fiction names. Torquas is ahead of us and to ...
Spirit Sol 1136 15 Mar 2012 | 09:36 pm
Let's see, we're back on Spirit now, so we're driving around ... oh, yeah, Home Plate! Or, rather, Mitcheltree Ridge, where the science team thinks outliers of Home Plate material are to be found. Tod...
