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Dec 22 2004, 09:03 AM
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Heatshield AHOY!
:-) -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Dec 27 2004, 02:12 PM
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Latest shots fo the heatshield at http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...cam/2004-12-27/ . Is that white sheet which overlays the biggest fragment the actual heat-resistant cloth layer? If so, it came through Martian entry pristine-looking, with no visible sign of charring.
Also some nice closeups of the actual impact crater, such as http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...A3P2360L4M1.JPG -- confirming again that the shield, despite coming down fast enough to shatter itself, barely punched into the solid rock layer covered by just a few cm of sand -- and some more of the second-largest shield fragment, such as http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...A3P2360L7M1.JPG . |
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