"Jon Berndt" wrote:

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?

How long will it take NASA to determine the exact coordinates of the landing site?

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