Monthly Archives: January 2010

The first images that allow people like me to make approx true colour (ish) pictures of Concepcion Crater have just been posted on t’internet, and the view is… well, see for yourself… click on the picture to bring up the … Continue reading →

We’re there! (click on all the following images for larger versions) So, here we are – Concepcion Crater! There are a LOT of rocks here – big and small, jagged and smooth-edged, layered and whole. Oppy could spend months here, … Continue reading →

Oppy is now just a few tens of metres away from the rocks marking the edge of Concepcion… (the green circle marks her approximate current position) And here’s the view… Let’s add some colour… … and here’s the view in … Continue reading →

I’ve had a couple of people asking just exactly where we are at the moment (and by ‘we’ obviously I mean Oppy!). Ok, let’s take a look. This is a map created by unmannedspaceflight.com’s cartographer extraordinaire, Tesheiner, showing Oppy’s recent … Continue reading →

Wow! Look at that! One more good drive and Oppy should be rolling up to the shattered rim of Concepcion Crater! Overnight some great new images came down from Oppy, taken with its Panoramic cameras, and they show a lot … Continue reading →

Within a couple of days Oppy will have reached her next “pit stop” along the road to Endeavour – a fresh (perhaps as young as a mere thousand years old, according to NASA) crater on the Meridiani plain which has … Continue reading →

… at a crater called “Conception”. That’s now the working (but still unofficial) name given to the fresh crater Oppy fans and followerts have been calling, um, “Fresh Crater” since it was spotted. Today Oppy drove a little closer to … Continue reading →

Finally, to the relief of many impatient backseat rover drivers, after several weeks of intense study and examination, Oppy has driven away from the huge, headstone-like slab of rock christened “Marquette Island” by the MER team, and is now heading for … Continue reading →

Oppy must really, really like Marquette Island – she’s been looking at it, driving around it, poking and drilling it for AGES now! Actually, I don’t mind, not one bit; while some people have complained about the length of Oppy’s … Continue reading →