January 19, 2004

spirit's adirondak target

The MER Mission homepage reports:

"After a Sunday drive, the rover arrived at the rock Adirondack where it will pause to find out what the rock is made of. The rocks Sashimi and Sushi weren't chosen because they didn't have good surfaces for grinding."

Photographs are available at the MER homepage and in high-resolution TIFF format at Planetary Photojournal. You can also find a catalog of Spirit's 1500+ raw images at the MER Multimedia pages.

This is going to be an exciting week and I'll try to get back to covering the press briefings as the Adirondak abrasion and analysis come in and we start to count down the days and hours to Opportunity's EDL (Jan. 24 at 9:05 p.m., PST).

Posted by asa at 2:48 PM

 

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