Live Dust Devil? |
Live Dust Devil? |
Mar 10 2005, 11:17 PM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 109 Joined: 2-May 04 From: Litchfield Park, Arizona (Phoenix area) Member No.: 71 |
Man, this looks an awful lot like a dust devil in the distance. What do you think?
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Mar 10 2005, 11:43 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 468 Joined: 11-February 04 From: USA Member No.: 21 |
Heh, I was just starting a new topic for this one, but ya'll beat me to it.
A navcam from Spirit's Sol 421 shows a bright, conical feature rising from the plains west of the Columbia Hills. It appears to be in the same position from both L and R eyes. There is a bright strip on the ground extending north from its current position. Here is a 2 frame animation comparing brightness enhanced left navcam images sol 421 to 420: http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/collections/S..._420_navcam.gif Since it was afternoon, the sun is to the west, so this may be a camera effect from looking in the direction of the sun although it would have to be a very strangely shaped one to account for these features. Sol 421 Navcam, left eye Sol 421 Navcam, right eye Sol 420 Navcam, left eye |
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