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Old 08-22-2012, 05:17 PM   #239
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Originally Posted by troutman View Post
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily...el-wiggle.html

There was a press briefing earlier today, summarizing the weekend's activities. The brief version: everything is working great including ChemCam and wheel steering tests, with one exception: apparent permanent damage to one of the two wind sensors in the REMS meteorological package.

Tomorrow's drive will be very simple: forward about 3 meters (just over one rover length), then a turn in place of 90 degrees to the right, then a 2-meter drive backwards; so in total the rover will wind up a bit more than 3 meters away and to the left of its current position, and facing south instead of east. The whole operation will take about half an hour
The patience committed to the design of this rover is crazy.
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