Live Dust Devil? |
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 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, 11:08 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
Some images of the ground
Before (sol 398) http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...00P1312R0M1.JPG After (sol 421) http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...90P1212R0M1.JPG |
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azstrummer Live Dust Devil? Mar 10 2005, 11:17 PM
djellison At LAST - they've actually GOT one
Nice find... Mar 10 2005, 11:21 PM azstrummer Crunch Mar 10 2005, 11:25 PM slinted Heh, I was just starting a new topic for this one,... Mar 10 2005, 11:43 PM Sunspot Something in thisone too? Mar 11 2005, 12:04 AM Sunspot it seems to extend in to the atmosphere: Mar 11 2005, 12:20 AM mhoward Is this one too? Taken just slightly earlier.
htt... Mar 11 2005, 12:21 AM djellison What we need is one to come OVER HERE.....HELLOOO.... Mar 11 2005, 12:36 AM Pando QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 10 2005, 05:36 PM)What... Mar 11 2005, 12:52 AM djellison You're joking.
are you?
Actually - looking a... Mar 11 2005, 12:56 AM Pando QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 10 2005, 05:56 PM)You... Mar 11 2005, 12:58 AM djellison wooOOoooowoooOOoooowaooowooo AT THE CAR WASH......... Mar 11 2005, 01:02 AM alan In rear view too?
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars... Mar 11 2005, 01:03 AM jamescanvin QUOTE (Pando @ Mar 11 2005, 12:52 AM)700+ W/H... Mar 11 2005, 01:10 AM tedstryk I hereby withdraw my prognosis that Spirit's d... Mar 11 2005, 01:19 AM slinted Amazing news! Mar 11 2005, 01:19 AM lyford You know I was going to add that the panels looked... Mar 11 2005, 01:30 AM mhoward This is the best news in weeks. Go Spirit! Mar 11 2005, 01:59 AM imran QUOTE (Pando @ Mar 11 2005, 12:52 AM)QUOTE (d... Mar 11 2005, 02:01 AM Pando QUOTE (imran @ Mar 10 2005, 07:01 PM)QUOTE (P... Mar 11 2005, 02:04 AM erwan Probably solar array good news, dust devil and Per... Mar 11 2005, 02:53 AM dvandorn QUOTE (Pando @ Mar 11 2005, 12:52 AM)QUOTE (d... Mar 11 2005, 03:03 AM lyford QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 10 2005, 07:03 PM)I cal... Mar 11 2005, 03:43 AM lyford Well, it does appear to have had an affect -
Com... Mar 11 2005, 04:13 AM erwan Seems to be rather demonstrative, Lyford! You ... Mar 11 2005, 04:48 AM lyford QUOTE (erwan @ Mar 10 2005, 08:48 PM)Seems to... Mar 11 2005, 05:23 AM Nix Yeah! That rear view one is a beauty too, and ... Mar 11 2005, 05:45 AM Pando That must have been quite a devil there, or was it... Mar 11 2005, 05:53 AM Nix That one in the rear hazard camera looks like it... Mar 11 2005, 06:16 AM Nix Forget about the dust, it's an artifact of the... Mar 11 2005, 06:25 AM dot.dk Wow this is the greatest ever news for a very long... Mar 11 2005, 06:32 AM akuo Excellent news! This really makes my day :-)
... Mar 11 2005, 09:08 AM Bill Harris Great news! OTOH, I wonder what the long-term... Mar 11 2005, 09:45 AM djellison The atmospheric opacity goes up and down like an e... Mar 11 2005, 10:12 AM dot.dk This must be really bad news for all the tired sci... Mar 11 2005, 10:25 AM Analyst Well, NASA can shut the rovers down when they are ... Mar 11 2005, 10:42 AM djellison I think actually - that's highly unlikely. The... Mar 11 2005, 11:00 AM Sunspot I find it hard to believe they would shutdown the ... Mar 11 2005, 11:18 AM OWW At least the MERs are out of range to suffer the s... Mar 11 2005, 11:20 AM Analyst Doug, I really hope it will turn out your way. But... Mar 11 2005, 11:32 AM dot.dk Wonderful animation to make Mar 11 2005, 11:48 AM OWW How much of that is real versus different lighting... Mar 11 2005, 12:04 PM tedstryk The Viking 1 lander died in a very sad way. A you... Mar 11 2005, 12:20 PM dot.dk Don't know how to find out the time a picture ... Mar 11 2005, 12:21 PM tedstryk I question whether the whole Voyager threat is sim... Mar 11 2005, 12:23 PM arccos 700W = great news indeed!!!
Boys, whe... Mar 11 2005, 12:39 PM TheChemist This is from a dust-devil simulation on earth, cro... Mar 11 2005, 12:49 PM Pertinax Ahhhh... beat to the punch on the cleaning of Spir... Mar 11 2005, 12:54 PM erwan RE: Live Dust Devil? Mar 11 2005, 01:06 PM Nix RE: Live Dust Devil? Mar 11 2005, 01:11 PM dot.dk That's hilarious Mar 11 2005, 01:14 PM Pando Somebody managed to snap the picture of two of tho... Mar 11 2005, 04:58 PM erwan Well, it seems that Martian's humor and atmosp... Mar 11 2005, 05:16 PM jaredGalen QUOTE (arccos @ Mar 11 2005, 12:39 PM)"7... Mar 11 2005, 05:47 PM dot.dk QUOTE (jaredGalen @ Mar 11 2005, 05:47 PM)QUO... Mar 11 2005, 05:57 PM jaredGalen QUOTE (dot.dk @ Mar 11 2005, 05:57 PM)Pando k... Mar 11 2005, 06:06 PM Jeff7 I thought the panels looked darker. I also looked ... Mar 11 2005, 07:03 PM mhoward Check it out. L256 available.
http://nasa.explora... Mar 11 2005, 10:22 PM mhoward Oh heck, I'll just post it. It's too good. Mar 11 2005, 10:31 PM akuo That's beautiful. Mar 11 2005, 10:39 PM lyford They missed a spot. Mar 11 2005, 10:56 PM MizarKey I think this is the path the dust devil took... Mar 11 2005, 11:03 PM OWW Sol 377:
Sol 422:
Notice the magnet to the rig... Mar 11 2005, 11:07 PM alan The dust devil cleaned many of the rocks too. Sho... Mar 12 2005, 12:00 AM jaredGalen Well, given the occasion I felt that it was worth ... Mar 12 2005, 12:02 AM djellison Interesting thing if you look at this
http://them... Mar 12 2005, 12:38 AM MahFL I noticed a long time ago too that a lot of streak... Mar 12 2005, 01:20 AM erwan I guess you are right, Doug, explaining Dust Devil... Mar 12 2005, 01:26 AM erwan A few more explanation words: The (cream color) el... Mar 12 2005, 01:53 AM edstrick tedstryk commented:
"The Viking 1 lander di... Mar 12 2005, 02:51 AM edstrick I took the pre and post cleaning images posted ear... Mar 12 2005, 04:04 AM edstrick Uh... It would help if I added the pic before hitt... Mar 12 2005, 04:05 AM RGClark QUOTE (Sunspot @ Mar 11 2005, 12:20 AM)it see... Mar 12 2005, 06:56 AM djellison Half the size of lahontan crater? Call it 30ft acr... Mar 12 2005, 10:14 AM remcook I must say I'm amazed! this is cool on so ... Mar 12 2005, 11:42 AM tedstryk Anyhow, it was an errant command that ended Viking... Mar 12 2005, 12:51 PM Sunspot QUOTE (RGClark @ Mar 12 2005, 06:56 AM)QUOTE ... Mar 12 2005, 02:13 PM dilo Hi Sunspot, also I tried to see atmospheric signat... Mar 12 2005, 03:28 PM erwan Sunspot, Dilo: thanks for your images.
It's pr... Mar 12 2005, 04:13 PM fredk Pando (or anyone), any idea how quickly the power... Mar 12 2005, 05:41 PM alan The dust devils have been mentioned on msnbc.com
... Mar 12 2005, 06:09 PM lyford QUOTE (alan @ Mar 12 2005, 10:09 AM)"Tha... Mar 12 2005, 06:30 PM dvandorn QUOTE (alan @ Mar 12 2005, 06:09 PM)The dust ... Mar 12 2005, 06:36 PM dvandorn As an addendum, I did find it sort of amusing that... Mar 12 2005, 06:42 PM lyford QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 12 2005, 10:36 AM)I rat... Mar 12 2005, 06:49 PM erwan Frankly posts, Dvandorn. I hope, as you, that Mer.... Mar 12 2005, 06:53 PM imran Spirit Gets A Dust Devil Once-Over
QUOTE Engineer... Mar 12 2005, 07:38 PM djellison QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 12 2005, 06:36 PM)I rat... Mar 12 2005, 07:52 PM Sunspot I always assumed the bright round features seen to... Mar 12 2005, 07:59 PM GregM . Mar 12 2005, 10:39 PM deglr6328 Hello everybody. This is my first post here since ... Mar 12 2005, 11:12 PM mike That 'Marsquatch' thing does look interest... Mar 12 2005, 11:30 PM alan Back on thread.
Here is a before an after shot of... Mar 13 2005, 01:59 AM erwan Below is linked a page from J.T ALU website, with ... Mar 13 2005, 02:02 AM SFJCody Slashdot picks up the story:
http://science.slash... Mar 13 2005, 02:11 AM slinted Thanks for the sundial images Alan. I think its v... Mar 13 2005, 03:08 AM Pando Alan, the Sol 417 image of the sundial above is qu... Mar 13 2005, 04:28 AM Pando QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 12 2005, 06:36 PM)I did... Mar 13 2005, 04:46 AM
alan Pando, I noticed that the sundial looks even redde... Mar 13 2005, 04:56 AM |
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