Dust Storm- Opportunity EOM, the end of the beginning of a new era in robotic spaceflight |
Dust Storm- Opportunity EOM, the end of the beginning of a new era in robotic spaceflight |
Jun 5 2018, 03:05 PM
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Expect a quiet few sols - http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~lemmon/mars-tau-b.html
SOL TAU 5097 0.65 5098 0.64 5099 0.67 5100 0.64 5101 0.60 5102 0.60 5103 0.61 5104 1.55 5105 **** 5106 2.12 |
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Jun 14 2018, 05:59 PM
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Martian Photographer Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 3-March 05 Member No.: 183 |
Not strictly true, at least if you're referring to how dusty the local skies were. The very high opacity the rover last saw is quite localized. The planet-encircling dust event, by its nature, distributes dust geographically. When local lifting stops, Meridiani could see rapid clearing that is not dust settling on panels. Then, a long slow period of sedimentation will get things dusty, but I imagine the Meridiani winds will not let too much dust accumulate (Mars may imagine differently, of course).
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