800Whrs+ Staying Up Late ideas |
800Whrs+ Staying Up Late ideas |
Jun 6 2009, 07:04 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
With Spirit producing an annoyingly large amount of power given her current predicament, the time may well have come to re-open the Gusev astronomy society. Anyone have any dusk / nightime observation ideas?
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Jul 3 2009, 02:08 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Okay, longest long-shot goofball night obs idea I can conjure up: Aurora search.
IIRC, Mars' magnetic field (what there is of it) is localized & kind of fragmented as surface remnants of its primeval core source field, so there's no real N-S mag poles like Earth. Still, the upper atmosphere must fluoresce (sp?) however weakly sometimes; long horizon exposures in the dead of night (which look through the longest chord of the atmosphere possible) might reveal occasional transient glows. Alternatively, maybe we might pick up the occasional flash of a static discharge from airborne dust? This might even be somewhat reasonable; presumably airborne dust clouds from DDs, gusts, etc. begin to descend at night once solar heating ceases, so they might zap the ground on the way down. <waits for waves of derisive laughter, some of which he himself emits!> -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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