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 11 2005, 07:03 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 180 |
I thought the panels looked darker. I also looked at the rear hazcam images to see if the thing got much closer to the summit; the front hazcam images weren't much help to me in that respect - the tracks behind it are a lot tougher to see now. Looking at the Navcam images too - yeah, those tracks are definitely eroded a good bit.
Very good to hear that Spirit is back to normal power levels. And what's this about cut funding for Voyager and other space probes? They damn well better not cut funding for any more operational probes. Hubble's already been handed a death sentence; they better not kill off any other working probes because we don't want to listen to them anymore. The Voyager probes are out in an area never before explored by any spacecraft (the Pioneer craft aren't transmitting anymore); and really, we invested a lot of time and money in building and launching these things. Run them until they won't do a damn thing anymore. Like the rovers - if their wheels seize up completely, fine, leave the cameras running - maybe update the software to allow for rapid image acquisition, and get some videos of some dust devils. |
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