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 25 2018, 12:13 AM
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The effect of dust storms is to loft water vapor into the middle atmosphere, with a significant decrease in absolute humidity near the ground. This reduction in the amount of water vapor means that the formation of films or brines is even less likely during a dust storm despite higher minimum temperature or minor variations in atmospheric pressure.
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Jun 25 2018, 03:28 AM
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The effect of dust storms is to loft water vapor into the middle atmosphere, with a significant decrease in absolute humidity near the ground. This reduction in the amount of water vapor means that the formation of films or brines is even less likely during a dust storm despite higher minimum temperature or minor variations in atmospheric pressure. And the maximum temperatures are also decreased, dramatically, during the storm. Rendering windows when such events might occur astonishingly small, if they existed at all. |
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