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Investigating The Heatshield

djellison View Member Profile	Jan 1 2005, 12:21 PM Post #1
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	Lots of MI images of the heatshield today http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...B8P2939M2M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...B8P2939M2M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...B8P2939M2M1.JPG http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...B8P2939M2M1.JPG

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djellison Investigating The Heatshield Jan 1 2005, 12:21 PM

djellison http://mer.rlproject.com/ohsc.jpg Jan 1 2005, 12:29 PM

centsworth_II I bet there are lots of "mystery fibers... Jan 1 2005, 02:31 PM

mike Those are pretty sweet.. the engineers must be lo... Jan 1 2005, 11:33 PM

djellison RE: Investigating The Heatshield Jan 2 2005, 08:41 PM

hendric Being a fellow engineer, I imagine the heatshield ... Jan 3 2005, 06:03 AM

djellison Possible evidence for wind at Meridiani? Thats ... Jan 3 2005, 01:11 PM

remcook what's the white stuff flowing across the imag... Jan 3 2005, 02:13 PM

OWW The white stuff are reflections in the camera. Dou... Jan 3 2005, 02:18 PM

djellison I dont mean the foil, or the glare from the camera... Jan 3 2005, 02:20 PM

CosmicRocker Wow! That thing clearly appears to be moving,... Jan 4 2005, 03:46 AM

Pando I think they are currently looking for signs of mo... Jan 4 2005, 04:33 AM

djellison QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Jan 4 2005, 03:46 AM)Wo... Jan 4 2005, 08:44 AM

slinted QUOTE (Pando @ Jan 4 2005, 04:33 AM)I think t... Jan 4 2005, 11:28 AM

akuo Sure looks like wind to me. This got me thinking,... Jan 4 2005, 11:52 AM

chris It would probably be less complex to make the sola... Jan 4 2005, 11:59 AM

Bill Harris QUOTE Being a fellow engineer, I imagine the heats... Jan 4 2005, 12:11 PM

djellison It does look like the whole thing is rippling a li... Jan 4 2005, 12:22 PM

MizarKey I favor the wind theory...check out how clean Oppo... Jan 4 2005, 08:58 PM

OWW It seems others are noticing the 'wind' to... Jan 4 2005, 11:14 PM

djellison QUOTE (chris @ Jan 4 2005, 11:59 AM)It would ... Jan 5 2005, 10:02 AM

chris Assuming, of course that the skycrane does its stu... Jan 5 2005, 10:26 AM

djellison I didnt say succesfull lander - I just said lander... Jan 5 2005, 10:33 AM

djellison I was thinking about trying to reproduce this area... Jan 5 2005, 10:34 AM

Sunspot I wonder if they are planning on getting a closeup... Jan 5 2005, 06:43 PM

MizarKey QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 5 2005, 02:34 AM)I was... Jan 5 2005, 06:57 PM

Marcel QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 5 2005, 10:33 AM)I did... Jan 6 2005, 04:13 PM

Analyst RTGs are better than solar arrays from an energy p... Jan 6 2005, 04:39 PM

Pando Actually there are radioisotope units on board the... Jan 6 2005, 04:57 PM

jaredGalen In this image from the rear hazcam, in the middle ... Jan 6 2005, 09:37 PM

OWW Oppy approached the main part of the heatshield. G... Jan 7 2005, 10:31 PM

mook Oppy's playing in the trash: Jan 8 2005, 12:07 AM

mike Opportunity is perplexed.. from whence did it com... Jan 8 2005, 07:15 AM

slinted Here's a mosaic of 5 frames (its interesting t... Jan 8 2005, 07:19 AM

djellison That two-shot technique is analagous to taking mul... Jan 8 2005, 12:37 PM

Bill Harris Wonderful! Take a look in the left center on ... Jan 8 2005, 11:25 PM

OWW Thanks. Here are the links to the two pictures. Mu... Jan 9 2005, 09:00 AM

djellison LOL - one even has motion blur How long before th... Jan 9 2005, 11:45 AM

OWW QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 9 2005, 11:45 AM)LOL -... Jan 9 2005, 01:12 PM

OWW Another view of that 'peak'. Is it really ... Jan 9 2005, 01:26 PM

Bill Harris This is fascinating, to see the effects of the Mar... Jan 9 2005, 02:37 PM

ilbasso Also interesting to note in the pictures that Obse... Jan 9 2005, 10:18 PM

Sunspot Hey we finally have a fairly closeup look at the r... Jan 9 2005, 11:20 PM

dot.dk That's one weird looking rock! Jan 9 2005, 11:41 PM

SFJCody Meteorite? Tektite? Bounce #2? Lump of ejecta f... Jan 10 2005, 12:13 AM

Bill Harris It looks almost meteortic with those pits on the s... Jan 10 2005, 02:39 AM

CosmicRocker At this point, I must vote for cheese...most likel... Jan 10 2005, 06:06 AM

Pando Looks like Oppy is really busy creating a monster ... Jan 11 2005, 01:49 AM

Pando It's alive! Jan 12 2005, 01:50 AM

slinted QUOTE (Pando @ Jan 11 2005, 01:49 AM)Looks li... Jan 12 2005, 02:04 AM

djellison RE: Investigating The Heatshield Jan 14 2005, 01:53 PM

lyford Doug - AWESOME pic right there... Been going th... Jan 18 2005, 10:39 PM

DEChengst Color picture of the fragment that broke off: Jan 19 2005, 05:59 PM

Bill Harris Interesting. Notice the dark discoloration along ... Jan 19 2005, 07:33 PM

geoffrey.landis QUOTE (Pando @ Jan 4 2005, 04:33 AM)I think t... Jan 22 2005, 11:31 PM

djellison By all means - there's a lot of stuff moving a... Jan 23 2005, 11:18 AM

Sunspot Now that Oppy has approached the heatshield again,... Jan 23 2005, 08:36 PM

Pando Final MIs of the heatsheld were wrapped up on Sol ... Jan 24 2005, 07:05 AM

dot.dk MI in action Jan 24 2005, 07:16 AM

Bill Harris QUOTE I don't think they ever wanted to even a... Jan 24 2005, 01:47 PM

john_s A postscript for the heatshield, written nearly 20... Jan 28 2005, 08:28 PM

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