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Over Five Months Without Word From Opportunity
by Staff Writers
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 03, 2018

a last selfie

Mars atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site remains at a storm-free level of 0.8.

Since loss of signal on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), 359 recovery commands have been radiated including on both polarizations. No signal from Opportunity has been heard.

Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss timer fault.

The project has been listening for the rover over a broad range of times, frequencies and polarizations using the Deep Space Network (DSN) Radio Science Receiver.

They have been commanding "sweep and beeps" throughout the daily DSN pass with both right-hand and left-hand circular polarization to address a possible complexity with certain conditions within mission clock fault.

Total odometry is unchanged at 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers).


Related Links
Opportunity Archive at JPL
Mars News and Information at MarsDaily.com
Lunar Dreams and more


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MARSDAILY
Atmospheric opacity over Opportunity drops to storm-free levels
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 14, 2018
The global dust storm on Mars has ended and atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site has dropped to a storm-free level of 0.8. Since loss of signal on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), 253 recovery commands have been radiated. No signal from Opportunity has been heard. Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss timer fault. The team has been listening for the rover over a broad range of times, frequencies and polarizations using the Deep Space Network ... read more

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