Anyone feeling competitive? Just for the heck of it, and because it was
fun, I took a stab at guessing where Spirit has come to rest, based on the
landing ellipse as shown he
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2003/pdf/1061.pdf
This image from Space.Com:
http://tinyurl.com/2k9a7
The DIMES images from the marsrover.jpl.nasa.gov site:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/spirit.html
It's an unabashed WAG, with a little help from the above data. I can't
claim to have interpreted it exactly right, but I'll be interested to see
how close I got.
My guess is in this image he
http://tinyurl.com/3dnub
It's a 650k .jpg image. The blue oval marks the spot where I am guessing
Spirit might have come to rest, although maybe it will end up being a little
farther north and/or a little farther downtrack. The blue oval is a couple 2
or three miles in length. The entire image is contained in Gusev crater.
Comments? Other guesses?
Jon