Could WE find the rock?

It has been written by Serpens that the rock Spirit is hung up on is wedge shaped, not pointed. I went back to about Sol 1860 and tried to find what rock Spirit is stuck on. My eyes are burning now from strain. If Serpens is correct about the wedge shape, and not a pointed rock, where did the information come from? I'd love to see the rock in an image taken before we got stuck. Think we could find it hiding in those images around Sol 1860?

Good call John. It is in the sol 1870 Navcam, but is also in the Sol 1367 Pancams. The actual correlation has been done by Fredk on Unmannedspaceflight - post 320 here http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5999&st=315&p=141393&#entry141393

From this the shape is pretty clear.

Much thanks to you, sir. Much thanks.

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a small excerpt taken from Mars Daily Nov 2, 2009...

'This week, an independent panel of robotics experts has been reviewing the rover team's tests and plans for getting Spirit away from the site called "Troy," where the rover's wheels broke through a crusty, dark surface layer and became embedded in bright, loose material that had been hidden underneath.

Spirit has worked on Mars for more than 69 months in what was originally planned as a three-month mission.'

Well, if the 'engineers' [playing with thing since April '09] would use the arm of Spirit as a boom and weight overhead, load one side of the rover until ready to tip then spin the wheels on the weighted side to perhaps move it out of its hole. A rocking action may do it with spinning tires.

Folks in the 'cold' North do it all the time when a car [far heavier than wee Spirit] gets caught in a snow bank with belly held by packed snow and re-froze melting ice from the exhaust system!!! Rocking action always gets it going for full momentum back onto the road. Just have to make sure your arms and legs are out of the way when it hits the pavement spinning!!! LOL

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Unfortunatley Spirit cannot rock back and forth as the commands arrive in sequences so go forward stop go backward stop and so on but not in a continious way that would build momentum to climb out of the trough.

Spirit in the Manure Business big time.