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 13 2005, 04:28 AM
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 The Insider Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 73 |
Alan, the Sol 417 image of the sundial above is quite fascinating, especially the dust-free band around the sphere. Some nice science can be learned from that simple image! One can easily see wind coming from lower left on the sundial, and blowing away the dust from the sphere, affecting the areas only where windspeed is the highest...
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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 Some images of the ground
Before (sol 398)
http:/... Mar 11 2005, 11:08 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 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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