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Heatshield ? Lander ? Backshell W/parachute ?, A light near the horizon
vikingmars
post Sep 28 2005, 08:42 PM
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Well, there's lights ! Near the horizon...

Heatshield ? Lander ? Backshell w/parachute ? Bad pixels ?
On your marks !

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/pa...OTP2291L7M1.JPG
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http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/pa...OTP2291L7M1.JPG
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post Sep 29 2005, 09:20 PM
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It would have been nice to do some time-lapse imaging of the parachute while we were up on the rim of Bonneville, as we might have seen it flapping.

Even just between filters imaging Opportunities heatshield, you can see parts of mylar flapping in the wind.

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- vikingmars   Heatshield ? Lander ? Backshell W/parachute ?   Sep 28 2005, 08:42 PM
- - djellison   Looks like it's exactly the same pixel in both...   Sep 28 2005, 08:57 PM
- - vikingmars   Doug, you're right ! Not only the cameras ...   Sep 28 2005, 09:20 PM
- - alan   Heatshield is in this image. http://qt.exploratori...   Sep 28 2005, 09:51 PM
|- - Jeff7   QUOTE (alan @ Sep 28 2005, 04:51 PM)Heatshiel...   Sep 29 2005, 12:04 AM
- - alan   here You can see it in other pancan images taken ...   Sep 29 2005, 03:17 AM
|- - dilo   alan, I think you are right!!! In the ...   Sep 29 2005, 06:41 AM
|- - Jeff7   QUOTE (alan @ Sep 28 2005, 10:17 PM)here You...   Sep 30 2005, 04:19 AM
- - ilbasso   Are we talking Spirit's heatshield here or get...   Sep 29 2005, 03:38 AM
- - aldo12xu   And here's a 5x Philovision crop of alan's...   Sep 29 2005, 12:16 PM
- - djellison   The far side, from this view. Doug   Sep 29 2005, 01:06 PM
- - odave   How much billowing around would the parachute be d...   Sep 29 2005, 01:59 PM
- - djellison   I'd have thought the 'chute would almost c...   Sep 29 2005, 02:05 PM
|- - dilo   I made the following comparison between simulated ...   Sep 29 2005, 07:01 PM
- - djellison   The parachute and the backshell were, and remain f...   Sep 29 2005, 08:15 PM
|- - dilo   In this case... we see the parachute!   Sep 29 2005, 08:50 PM
- - djellison   Yup - 'chute, backshell, and infact the bridle...   Sep 29 2005, 09:07 PM
- - Sunspot   Images taken early in the morning or later in the ...   Sep 29 2005, 09:15 PM
- - djellison   It would have been nice to do some time-lapse imag...   Sep 29 2005, 09:20 PM

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