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djellison
post Mar 11 2004, 03:11 PM
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http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/spirit_p067.html

Strange things - possibly one of the moons going overhead?

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post Mar 11 2004, 05:36 PM
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Yeah - I thought it MIGHT have been an orbiter - but you're only going to see those an hour or two either side of sunrise and sunset - not 2am local solar time ohmy.gif

This was obviously timed to be done just before or just after the 2am MGS pass when the rover wakes up - does a 128 kbps pass to MGS, then goes back to sleep again - so MGS would have been going overhead, but I'm sure it'd have been in orbital shadow at the time.

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- djellison   Astronomical Observations   Mar 11 2004, 03:11 PM
- - SickNick   Don't think so. The camera is static and the s...   Mar 11 2004, 04:17 PM
- - djellison   Statistically, I cant imagine they would ever get ...   Mar 11 2004, 04:35 PM
- - djellison   We're having the same debate in two places at ...   Mar 11 2004, 04:42 PM
- - jmknapp   Fascinating! My guess is that the "concor...   Mar 11 2004, 04:53 PM
- - Sunspot   QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 11 2004, 04:35 PM)Stat...   Mar 11 2004, 05:25 PM
- - djellison   Yeah - I thought it MIGHT have been an orbiter - b...   Mar 11 2004, 05:36 PM
- - David   If the bright object were Deimos, its trail should...   Mar 11 2004, 07:22 PM
- - Gray   On a different board a person identified the three...   Mar 11 2004, 07:45 PM
- - remcook   Yes, it's Orion. That was said at the press co...   Mar 11 2004, 09:57 PM
- - paulanderson   QUOTE (remcook @ Mar 11 2004, 01:57 PM)Yes, i...   Mar 12 2004, 03:46 AM

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