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Phoenix parachute, changes in HiRISE images
Phil Stooke
post May 27 2014, 03:30 PM
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Big news from Phoenix-land.

The latest released image of the landing site shows a big change in the parachute since landing. There are lots of images of this site, so a time-series set could be very interesting.

Here's a comparison - the left side is a figure from my future book, showing the parachute just after landing. the right side is the newest image taken in February 2014. The parachute has clearly moved very considerably - surely there is no other possible explanation for this? And I wonder if it didn't pull the backshell enough to tip it over, because that looks different as well.

I will search back in time to try to find when this happened, but I probably can't put much time into it.

Phil

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Wow. Fascinating to watch this over the seasons. I wonder how long it will take for the hardware to become completely indistinguishable from the surroundings.


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