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The winds of Mars
teck
post May 31 2008, 10:42 PM
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Did you see this anemometer animation?

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post May 31 2008, 10:53 PM
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I wonder if it can double as a visual seismograph?

On a windless day biggrin.gif
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post May 31 2008, 10:58 PM
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I wonder if wind speed measurements from this instrument need to be recalibrated because there seems to be a permanent kink in the thread and the upper part is rigid.
If a particular amount of deflection has been calibrated to a particular wind speed during Earth based measurements, those measurements I would think need to
be redone with a similarly bent and frozen thread.

Any gueses as to what happened to the thread? Moisture froze it solid? Just got bent and stuck during the long cruise?
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post Jun 1 2008, 01:35 PM
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A new lager animation of the wind "sock".
Now with the image!

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post Jun 1 2008, 02:21 PM
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QUOTE (bcory @ Jun 1 2008, 05:53 AM) *
I wonder if it can double as a visual seismograph?

On a windless day biggrin.gif


Ha ha, so funny laugh.gif

A little bit off topic, there was a very simple seismograph that the ancient Chinese used here http://geology.about.com/library/weekly/aa070598.htm
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