Sol 65 and after, Digs in Neverland, Cupboard, Stone Soup, Burn Alive... |
Sol 65 and after, Digs in Neverland, Cupboard, Stone Soup, Burn Alive... |
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Since there will be a press briefing today at 11 am PDT / 1800 UT it seems like a good time to start a fresh Phoenix thread. Phoenix hasn't gotten that icy sample yet but they do seem to have overcome their concerns about using TEGA so it looks likely we'll see a lot more sample acquisitions and deliveries in the coming weeks.
Press briefing will be on NASA TV: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv on both public and media channels. Here's that higher-bitrate stream on Yahoo: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/nasa/index.html --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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How did we miss that lidar image?!
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How did we miss that lidar image?! What amazes me about this (apart from the fact no one here spotted the beam first!) is that the beam is visible in broad daylight! ( Edit: the images were near 3am, but of course the sun is up all night now. Light does not backscatter well from air, and Martian air is extremely thin, so we must be seeing backscattering from the dust. Martian air tends to be much dustier than earth's, and I doubt the beam would be visible in normal daylight conditions on earth. This reminds me - anyone recall hearing a tau measurement for Phoenix? edit - not only did no one notice the images, but apparently we all missed Lemmon's caption: QUOTE SSI Image of LIDAR beam ![]() |
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Actually SSI Image of LIDAR beam.. 10 commanded, but 0 received. The ones we've now seen were from a different sol ![]() Doug |
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