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[infocat13]

Now if I use IAS viewer just maybe we can find the mars 6 lander my eyes are straining already

http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTR...RED.abrowse.jpg



I wonder if we know what the landing ellipse would have been or was intended to have been on this image?

[PDP8E]

I Googled dust storms on mars and after a few hours I found evidence for 11 documented planet wide dust storms in the last 100 years, (1920,1956,1971,1973,1977,1982,1994,1997,2001,2003,2007)

Since the 1970s they come every 4/5 years, since 1920 it averages 8+ years (probably due to better surveillance in the last 30 years) We also know the the Hellas Basin brews yearly and regional dust activity as it is a warm, deep, and wide dust bowl itself, and a regional storm can erupt into a global storm as we saw in 2007 (chaos theory anyone?)

We also see local cleaning events by gusts of wind (oppy & spirit). I think an exposed object (lander) will accumulate dust but then it blown away year after year. I think the local cleaning events outnumber the dust accumulation events.

Evidence: Viking parachute (hardly a tall and exposed object like a rover -etc) is still quite visible after 6 major dust storms and 30+ years (in fact you can make a case that a parachute is quite a dust collector being so low and flat)


I hope to see much more Mars Hardware on the ground from MRO over the next few years!

Keep Looking!

[djellison]

Evidence: Viking parachute (hardly a tall and exposed object like a rover -etc) is still quite visible after 6 major dust storms and 30+ years (in fact you can make a case that a parachute is quite a dust collector being so low and flat)

Evidence: ONE of the Viking parachutes is quite visible, the other is barely visible, and fresh rover tracks only a few years old have been eradicated in places at both MER sites.



Doug