Martian Vistas

Tosol is 2300 for Opportunity. Every 100 sols I plot the position of Opportunity on a large scale map to get a larger overview of the progress she is making towards Endeavour Crater. This complements the detailed daily maps posted on The Route Map thread at UMSF. Previously I've posted these directly to that thread, but when I noticed how long it's been since I posted anything here (a combination of illness, 17 month old child and broken image pipeline) I thought I'd throw it up here as well!

Opportunities landing site is at the top left (sol 1) Victoria Crater 1/4 of the way down the image (sols 1000 to 1600) and Endeavour crater is at the bottom right. The brown line shows the future path passing Santa Maria Crater before heading to Cape York at Endeavour.

Opportunity has made steady progress and is now 1.12km from where she was 100 sols ago. The actual distance traveled is however considerably greater as she made a large dog-leg around the corner large ripple field to the north. It's great to finally see Oppy actually moving towards her destination!

The second (coloured) map has an overlay of the ripple sizes (red large, blue small, green none) using the Fourier mapping technique that I posted here a long time ago. As you can see Oppy is past the worst of the ripples and will soon be out on the flat 'parking lot' terrain.

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