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 15 2018, 09:02 AM
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OK, so according to the source linked below, a sunny day on earth is about 100,000 lux, while a moonlit night is about 0.25 lux.
At Mars distance the sun will be about 1/4 brightness compared to Earth, so say 25000 lux under clear skies. A tau of 10 means a reduction of about 50,000 fold in the light intensity, so I would estimate about 0.5 lux. This is comparable to a moonlit night on Earth. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...mp;guccounter=1 |
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