Wreckage Of Beagle 2 Found? |
Wreckage Of Beagle 2 Found? |
Dec 20 2005, 01:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
Wreckage of Beagle found scattered in Mars crater
Talk about being unlucky assuming this is confirmed. |
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Dec 23 2005, 09:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Note that the Viking landers directly measured the gravity of Mars while sitting on the surface with their entry/descent accelerometers and got a decently accurate estimate for each lander of it's radius from the center of the planet. That would not have been possible if there were non-square root, or non-trivial "second order" whatever that means in this context, deviations in Mars' gravity from that determined by inter-planet peturbations, flyby estimates, and orbital measurements.
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