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Tesheiner
post Jan 23 2007, 11:04 AM
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The Photo Poll on the MER mission web has a winner.
And the winner is ... Spirit's scene of the setting sun.



http://marsdata1.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/photoContest/index.cfm
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dvandorn
post Jan 25 2007, 12:09 AM
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You got that right! I'm a good 25 to 30 degrees of latitude south of the Arctic Circle here in Minnesota, and on the summer solstice the sun sets a little north of directly northwest (at about 9:40 p.m.) and in the six or so hours it remains below the horizon, a faint glow never completely disappears from the northern sky. The glow rotates across full north and then flowers into a north-northeast dawn, between 3:30 and 4 a.m.

I love summer up here -- but of course, we also get the obverse in winter, when the sun rises at 8:30 a.m. and sets by 4:20 p.m., never rising (even at noon) much above thirty degrees off the horizon...

-the other Doug


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- Tesheiner   Photo Poll Winner   Jan 23 2007, 11:04 AM
- - ustrax   1030 posts and you still can't manage to not h...   Jan 23 2007, 11:47 AM
- - tty   Not the only place it shows up. Have a look at thi...   Jan 23 2007, 12:48 PM
- - djellison   Ahh yes - the famous view to the North East where ...   Jan 23 2007, 01:00 PM
|- - climber   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 23 2007, 02:00 PM)...   Jan 23 2007, 05:18 PM
- - djellison   Yup - the backdrop is a painting matching identica...   Jan 23 2007, 06:10 PM
|- - mhoward   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 23 2007, 06:10 PM)...   Jan 23 2007, 06:51 PM
|- - climber   QUOTE (mhoward @ Jan 23 2007, 07:51 PM) I...   Jan 23 2007, 09:38 PM
|- - tty   QUOTE (mhoward @ Jan 23 2007, 07:51 PM) I...   Jan 24 2007, 08:13 PM
|- - mhoward   QUOTE (tty @ Jan 24 2007, 08:13 PM) Lucky...   Jan 25 2007, 12:39 AM
- - djellison   It's why I love Dan's MER animation -.one ...   Jan 23 2007, 07:00 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   You guys *really* should try to get out more! ...   Jan 23 2007, 07:09 PM
||- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jan 23 2007, 08:09 PM) ...   Jan 23 2007, 09:40 PM
|- - climber   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 23 2007, 08:00 PM)...   Jan 23 2007, 09:37 PM
- - dvandorn   You got that right! I'm a good 25 to 30 d...   Jan 25 2007, 12:09 AM

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