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June 25, 2009 Mars Mode Take 2

Mars mode take 2

Yesterday (June 24), we sent K10 to scout an area that did not have network communications coverage. To scout this area, we again made use of "Mars Mode" and asked the field team to run robot plans in the field and then send all the data acquired back to NASA Ames at the end of the day. The goal for June 24 was to go to at least one of the stations (CP1 to CP9) shown on the image in order to acquire a 360 GigaPan panorama, a single terrain image, and lidar scans.

June 24, 2009 Reflections on "Lunar Mode"

My name is R. Aileen Yingst, and I serve on the North traverse Science Team for the K10 field experiment. I've been a Participating Scientist on the Mars Exploration Rovers mission for 4 years now, and this experience with a "lunar" mission has been a real eye-opener.

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