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 Oct 18 2005, 05:47 PM
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Spaceweather (www.spaceweather.com) is reporting a dust storm on Mars visible in amateur telescopes. Hope we don't get too much dust-fall on the solar panels....
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Oct 29 2005, 11:46 PM
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Could the dust storm be a serious matter for our intrepid explorer? I am assuming that if the dust storm does hit and decrease the solar panel output to below the minimum, Oppy can go into a deep sleep mode and wait the storm out, waking up once the storm clears. And if the solar panels get dusted over, we'll wait for a cleaning event. Or am I too accustomed to Oppy being The Energizer Mars Rover?
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Oct 30 2005, 12:41 AM
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QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Oct 30 2005, 12:46 AM) Could the dust storm be a serious matter for our intrepid explorer? I am assuming that if the dust storm does hit and decrease the solar panel output to below the minimum, Oppy can go into a deep sleep mode and wait the storm out, waking up once the storm clears. And if the solar panels get dusted over, we'll wait for a cleaning event. Or am I too accustomed to Oppy being The Energizer Mars Rover? --Bill  Bill: We're talking End Of Mission! Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Oct 30 2005, 09:39 AM
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QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Oct 30 2005, 01:41 AM) Bill: We're talking End Of Mission! Bob Shaw We're only talking end of mission if things get really bad and stay that way. Oppy's been generating somewhere in the 600Watt/hours per day range lately. An extended period where Tau is around 2 would reduce that by 20-30% which would make things more difficult but wouldn't kill her. A really major event (Tau~ 5) would bring that down to around 240 Watt/hours which is below the level that I think she needs to survive for an extended period. Even at that level though I think there would be enough juice to wake up and blip out a "Hello I'm still more or less alive" direct to earth message. To give you an idea what a major planetwide storm would do - the second 1997 storm had Tau > 4 for approximately 36 Sols (based on a model from Viking data) and Tau >2 for about 80 sols. It's important to remember that the general consensus is that we're too late in the season for a storm like that. The |
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sranderson Dust Storm Oct 18 2005, 05:47 PM
helvick Worth keeping an eye on but hopefully this will be... Oct 18 2005, 06:28 PM
ljk4-1 QUOTE (helvick @ Oct 18 2005, 01:28 PM)Worth ... Oct 18 2005, 07:18 PM vikingmars Hope this one will NOT reach any MER rover !
H... Oct 18 2005, 08:18 PM sranderson Wow. Gets dark doesn't it. Are those piles o... Oct 18 2005, 09:12 PM vikingmars QUOTE (sranderson @ Oct 18 2005, 09:12 PM)Wow... Oct 19 2005, 05:22 AM helvick Handy site to keep an eye on this storm feature as... Oct 19 2005, 10:25 AM helvick QUOTE (vikingmars @ Oct 18 2005, 09:18 PM) Ho... Oct 18 2005, 09:30 PM pioneer QUOTE (vikingmars @ Oct 18 2005, 08:18 PM) Ho... Oct 19 2005, 02:36 PM fredk Update on dust storm here with short interview wit... Oct 20 2005, 11:45 PM sranderson Looks like the storm is getting bigger and it appa... Oct 22 2005, 02:32 PM ljk4-1 QUOTE (sranderson @ Oct 22 2005, 09:32 AM)Loo... Oct 24 2005, 07:00 PM SigurRosFan Latest storm picture from Ed Lomeli of Sacramento,... Oct 24 2005, 06:55 PM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (SigurRosFan @ Oct 24 2005, 06:55 PM)La... Oct 24 2005, 08:04 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Oct 24 2005, 09:04 PM)I... Oct 24 2005, 09:34 PM deglr6328 How frequently do global dust storms occur on Mars... Oct 24 2005, 09:31 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (deglr6328 @ Oct 24 2005, 10:31 PM)How ... Oct 24 2005, 09:37 PM jamescanvin QUOTE (deglr6328 @ Oct 25 2005, 07:31 AM)How ... Oct 25 2005, 01:01 AM helvick QUOTE (deglr6328 @ Oct 24 2005, 10:31 PM)How ... Oct 29 2005, 02:49 PM slinted There is fresh activity being seen VERY close to O... Oct 28 2005, 11:09 AM Nirgal QUOTE (slinted @ Oct 28 2005, 01:09 PM)There ... Oct 28 2005, 09:19 PM djellison I wonder what imagery Damien Peach has managed to ... Oct 28 2005, 11:23 AM Sunspot Whoah !!! thats close. Would Opportun... Oct 28 2005, 11:29 AM Marcel QUOTE (Sunspot @ Oct 28 2005, 11:29 AM)Whoah ... Oct 28 2005, 11:41 AM JRehling QUOTE (Sunspot @ Oct 28 2005, 04:29 AM)Whoah ... Oct 28 2005, 09:24 PM Bill Harris BTW, by convention, and I presume that they still ... Oct 28 2005, 12:32 PM slinted QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Oct 28 2005, 04:32 AM)BT... Oct 28 2005, 08:16 PM akuo I think this dust storm is already on top of Oppy.... Oct 28 2005, 12:42 PM ljk4-1 QUOTE (akuo @ Oct 28 2005, 07:42 AM)I think t... Oct 28 2005, 01:01 PM Rakhir "Opportunity has seen some signs of the dust ... Oct 28 2005, 09:26 PM Tman On the ASO website http://www.arksky.org/asoimglib... Oct 28 2005, 01:49 PM alan QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Oct 28 2005, 01:01 PM)Th... Oct 28 2005, 02:13 PM Rakhir "The storm has seven appendages that stretch ... Oct 28 2005, 07:50 PM paulanderson QUOTE (Rakhir @ Oct 28 2005, 11:50 AM)"T... Oct 28 2005, 08:49 PM mike QUOTE (paulanderson @ Oct 28 2005, 12:49 PM)T... Oct 28 2005, 09:37 PM Tman Mike, you have to start with the link and guidance... Oct 28 2005, 09:55 PM Vladimorka http://www.arksky.org/smf/index.php?topic=833.0 Oct 28 2005, 09:57 PM helvick Just wondering if the "extraordinary" br... Oct 28 2005, 10:56 PM Bill Harris On the FwdHazcam and RearHazcam images from Sol 62... Oct 29 2005, 01:59 AM RNeuhaus QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Oct 28 2005, 08:59 PM)On... Oct 29 2005, 03:02 AM Sunspot I wish we could get to see some dust storm images ... Oct 29 2005, 10:45 AM slinted Dr. Sherrod has captured the storm activity again ... Oct 29 2005, 11:36 AM Nirgal QUOTE (helvick @ Oct 30 2005, 11:39 AM)We... Oct 30 2005, 12:37 PM helvick QUOTE (Nirgal @ Oct 30 2005, 01:37 PM)Questio... Oct 30 2005, 02:57 PM jamescanvin QUOTE (Nirgal @ Oct 30 2005, 10:37 PM)ok, I... Oct 30 2005, 11:58 PM Bill Harris That's what I was afraid of...
--Bill Oct 30 2005, 01:27 AM dot.dk Ok, the dust storm has hit Meridiani
Good lu... Oct 30 2005, 07:51 PM djellison Youcha. I think a lot of that is because of the lo... Oct 30 2005, 09:58 PM OWW There IS more dust over meridiani:
Taken from htt... Oct 30 2005, 10:25 PM djellison Obviously MOC WA will be catching this lot, but it... Oct 30 2005, 10:40 PM Bill Harris It may not be curtains. This is a plucky little r... Oct 30 2005, 11:08 PM Sunspot When I go to the JPL RAW site all I see are broken... Oct 30 2005, 11:18 PM Ames QUOTE (Sunspot @ Oct 31 2005, 12:18 AM)When I... Oct 30 2005, 11:29 PM Sunspot Weird, they dont show up for me in any browser I t... Oct 30 2005, 11:35 PM dot.dk You have to insert "%23%23" in the filen... Oct 30 2005, 11:36 PM Bill Harris Heck, let's sit back and watch the storm.
Pas... Oct 31 2005, 12:58 AM CosmicRocker On earth, dust storms can definitely reduce availa... Oct 31 2005, 05:39 AM Ames new pictures...
http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mar... Oct 31 2005, 10:16 AM dot.dk QUOTE (Ames @ Oct 31 2005, 10:16 AM)new pictu... Oct 31 2005, 10:32 AM Tman This Rear Hazcam is additional one from sol 627:
... Oct 31 2005, 03:17 PM ljk4-1 Did it ever show if the dust that accumulated on t... Oct 31 2005, 03:29 PM tedstryk QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Oct 31 2005, 03:29 PM)Di... Oct 31 2005, 03:49 PM Marcel QUOTE (tedstryk @ Oct 31 2005, 03:49 PM)This ... Oct 31 2005, 03:56 PM helvick QUOTE (Marcel @ Oct 31 2005, 04:56 PM)Did Pat... Oct 31 2005, 04:08 PM tedstryk It spotted a few...I have some images somewhere...... Oct 31 2005, 10:19 PM RNeuhaus QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Oct 31 2005, 10:29 AM)Di... Oct 31 2005, 05:07 PM Cugel But the shadow of the rover still looks sharp and ... Oct 31 2005, 03:28 PM Tman QUOTE (Cugel @ Oct 31 2005, 05:28 PM)But the ... Oct 31 2005, 03:42 PM Bill Harris This didn't quite show what I'd hoped it w... Oct 31 2005, 03:30 PM Ames The latest hazcam pictures show the shadow as bein... Oct 31 2005, 03:44 PM tedstryk I imaging the stretching of the "raws" w... Oct 31 2005, 03:46 PM helvick QUOTE (tedstryk @ Oct 31 2005, 04:46 PM)I ima... Oct 31 2005, 04:32 PM Bill Harris Here is another evaluation of the sky brightness. ... Oct 31 2005, 05:01 PM DEChengst Some info from the CNN website:
"Lemmon said... Oct 31 2005, 05:48 PM djellison CODE4. What EDRs did we request?
Expected EDRs by... Oct 31 2005, 09:24 PM Sunspot QUOTE (djellison @ Oct 31 2005, 09:24 PM)CODE... Oct 31 2005, 11:40 PM RNeuhaus Yes, it will only be looking a narrow angle from w... Oct 31 2005, 09:50 PM djellison QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Oct 31 2005, 09:50 PM)It mi... Oct 31 2005, 10:41 PM jamescanvin QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Nov 1 2005, 07:50 AM)Yes, i... Oct 31 2005, 11:10 PM RNeuhaus QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Oct 31 2005, 06:10 PM)Th... Nov 2 2005, 04:17 PM ilbasso The Pathfinder did indeed image several dust devil... Oct 31 2005, 10:53 PM tedstryk I worked with some of those Patfinder images once.... Oct 31 2005, 11:45 PM djellison Ted have you ever found the equiv of Pathfinder R... Nov 1 2005, 08:13 AM Bill Harris From the Mission Status at the NASA/JPL site:
QUO... Nov 1 2005, 11:04 AM general Oppy's dusty weekend
http://marsrovers.jpl.... Nov 2 2005, 08:01 PM Burmese always a new twist for the programmers:
"...... Nov 2 2005, 08:11 PM avkillick Now that's a concept! Miss the alarm - so... Nov 2 2005, 10:12 PM ljk4-1 FOR RELEASE: 9;00 am (EST) November 3, 2005
PHOT... Nov 3 2005, 02:37 PM Tman Has anybody seen a new picture of the dust storm? ... Nov 2 2005, 09:58 PM Tman Woow, that's another highlight from Hubble... Nov 3 2005, 06:20 PM jamescanvin QUOTE (Tman @ Nov 4 2005, 05:20 AM) Woow, tha... Nov 4 2005, 12:20 AM Bill Harris There does not appear to have been a dust depositi... Nov 18 2005, 04:36 AM jaredGalen QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Nov 18 2005, 05:36 AM)Su... Nov 18 2005, 09:27 AM lyford This would be good news - seems the answer is blow... Nov 18 2005, 07:37 AM edstrick I was looking at that marking on the left side of ... Nov 18 2005, 10:25 AM slinted The bright ...splotch is a persistant feature that... Nov 18 2005, 11:19 AM Bill Harris I have no idea what that white "splat" i... Nov 18 2005, 01:29 PM |
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