Sometimes folk worry when the Mars Rover hasn't gone anywhere for a while, or isn't returning any science. But at least we haven't yet messed it up this bad, eh @65dBnoise @PaulHammond51 😀 https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2023/07/28/mission-update-voyager-2-communications-pause/
The rover was on top of 'Mont Mercou' on sol 3088. That cliff face was 6 meters tall 
@PaulHammond51 @65dBnoise Oh I recall that rockface, I didn't realise it ended up on top of it! 😀
Good work from the rover drivers!
I'm guessing they tested those drives in the Mars Yard more than once LOL
Somebody made a great animation showing the rover doing a ski jump off that rockface, but it was shared on a social media page I gave up on a while back :)
@PaulHammond51 @magicaltrout @65dBnoise Those drives didn't get tested in the Mars yard....just software simulated within RSVP like any other day. 🚀
@doug_ellison @magicaltrout @65dBnoise
You guys must have lots of confidence earned after years of practice :)
@PaulHammond51 @doug_ellison @65dBnoise You know these rover drivers, like race car drivers, massive egos! 😆
@magicaltrout @PaulHammond51 @65dBnoise There wouldn't be time to fire up the VSTB rover and test something and still get the commands ready in time. Also we don't have a 1:1 replica of Mt Mercou in the Mars Yard :D
@magicaltrout @PaulHammond51
Few non engineers can appreciate that what might sound a little apologetic in your post is in fact a significant achievement, given the complexity of the systems and the operational conditions.
If some of us space junkies, or otherwise insignificant externalities, sound as critics at times, it's only because we may want to tweak the long delay setting of the status feedback loop to a better value (to put it in easily understood technical terms 🤣 😜)
@magicaltrout @65dBnoise
Yup, that was a rather large whoopsie. Fingers crossed that it comes back on-line in October after the next reset. I recall when the rover was atop a very large rock a couple of years back, the rover drivers would have be really checking the code to make sure it did not drive the wrong way, else it would have been an even bigger whoopsie