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Oct 18 2005, 05:47 PM
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Oct 28 2005, 11:29 AM
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Whoah !!! thats close. Would Opportunity be able to see this in the sky?
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Oct 28 2005, 09:24 PM
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QUOTE (Sunspot @ Oct 28 2005, 04:29 AM) I'm not sure how "tall" a martian dust storm is. A 100 meter object would be just visible from about 20 km away. But, given that the object is dust, and the background is the already-dusty sky of Mars, it might have to be a lot closer to be visible. The easiest way to detect it would be to notice the setting sun passing into the storm. Given the speed at which the storm is traveling, it could arrive before any image seeing it in the distance is taken -- unless an imaging campaign devoted to this is undertaken. |
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