Monthly Archives: April 2011

Oppy’s most recent drive was a quite amazing 152 metres! She has now crossed a narrow patch of light bedrock, and is heading towards a pair of small craters. She should reach them sometime over the weekend, I think. Here’s … Continue reading →

Very interesting day today – NASA released a new “Mars Rover update“, and it featured a map. Nothing unusual there, but this map actually traces out a track between where Oppy is now and across Meridiani to the rim of … Continue reading →

26 days ago, as Oppy was departing Santa Maria, she took some pictures of a rather interesting looking rock the MER team christened “Unalaska”. Those images have finally gurgled down the Earth-Mars pipeline, enabling me to make a colour portrait … Continue reading →

Well, two craters – actually, a small cluster of four or five craters. Here’s Oppy’s latest wide angle view, a mosaic of images taken on sol 2574 (just read that again… back in 2004 we were all crossing our fingers … Continue reading →

Nothing much to report at the moment, really. Oppy has slowed down a little in recent sols, and has just been chugging along, steadily heading south and east towards Endeavour. Around her – the vast, wide open plain of Meridiani, … Continue reading →

I mentioned in the last post that some more images of the hills marking Endeavour’s western rim were were on their way back from Mars. Well, they made it back safely, I pottered about with them, and here’s the new … Continue reading →

While we wait for a whole skip-load of colour filtered images showing Endeavour’s rim to come back from Mars, and following on from my recent post showing the new HiRISE portrait of Cape York, I thought it might be useful … Continue reading →

Regular readers of “Road to Endeavour” will already know what a great friend Mars rover driver Scott Maxwell is to this blog. I was priviliged to be shown around parts of JPL by Scott a couple of years ago, including … Continue reading →

Those wonderful, wonderful people in charge of the HiRISE camera onboard NASA’s MRO probe have taken another high resolution image of Cape York, Oppy’s predicted “landfall” site once she has crossed the Meridiani plain and reached the rim of Endeavour … Continue reading →

In my previous post I showed two pictures, one of Mars, the other of Ullswater, a lake here in the Cumbrian lake District where Stella and I went camping at the weekend. I just put those two pictures together because … Continue reading →