Monthly Archives: July 2012

…without a… hammer! Oppy has been having a LOT of fun at WHim Creek over the past couple of sols. Having been fascinated by it for years, literally, we were all hoping she would drive up close to it, so … Continue reading →

As the great, much-missed Sam Beckett used to say after each Quantum Leap… Oh Boy… We’re there. We’re finally there. Unbelievable. Just… fantastic! Where are we? Where have we finally reached? Whim Creek, the bizarre, what-the-hell-is-THAT? v-shaped wound in the … Continue reading →

Yesterday the MER team allowed one of its planning meetings to be broadcast live on t’internet, and although I couldn’t watch it as it happened, I caught up with the meeting via a recording of it on YouTube, and fascinating … Continue reading →

More images came back from Oppy overnight (well, overnight *my* time!) showing more of the small crater she’s approaching on the eastern side of Cape York. Here you go – and I think you’ll agree that Oppy has reached a … Continue reading →

No, Oppy hasn’t scooted off and away from Endeavour since we last heard from her! But she has moved southwards down the side of Cape York and is now approaching one of several small craters blasted out of the Cape’s … Continue reading →

No, “Road to Endeavour” hasn’t fallen into a black hole, we’re still here, there’s just been nothing to write or talk about recently, what with the Odyssey orbiter throwing another diva strop and refusing to talk to Earth, or send … Continue reading →

I’m always delighted when members of the insanely-busy MER team agree to ‘talk’ to this blog, by answering a selection of emailed questions, and I was especially pleased when NASA’s Dr Barbara Cohen, from the Marshall Spaceflight Centre in Huntsville, … Continue reading →

Oppy is on the move again! Having spent the past week or so studying an area of rock christened “Valadero”, photographing it in great detail – and beautiful colour – she has now, it appears from the latest pictures, driven … Continue reading →

Another morning, another batch of new images to look through and work with. Oppy might not be moving much, but the images she’s taking and returning are giving us a wonderfully detailed view of this particular part of Mars. In … Continue reading →

More pretty pictures have been sent back by Oppy, showing in more detail than we’ve seen before,  the rocks around her and the hills on the opposite side of Endeavour Crater. Let’s start this post by looking at a two … Continue reading →