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Out The Crater.., on to the Heatshield
djellison
post Dec 12 2004, 09:11 PM
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Just thought I'd start a new thread dedicated to crater - to - heatshield fun smile.gif

We SHOULD see Oppy out of it's hole in the next 12 hours or so!

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post Dec 21 2004, 10:34 PM
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QUOTE (DavidVicari @ Dec 21 2004, 08:46 PM)
Any chance the nighttime frost helped in any way with the cleaning?

I had wondered about that as well, especially since the frost images were released (and were dated back near the sols where the cleaning events were first reportedly happening.) I can't wait to hear what tales those MI's have to tell. Were the events strictly wind based, or frost based, or both? Was there dust clumping due to frost formation, and if so what structure did it leave behind? If there was a clumping due to frost being formed, would those structures then be more prone to releasing dust into the wind once the frost went away? Is it even vaguely plausible to have a highly transient liquid film either when the frost was deposited, or when it evaporated/sublimated away? Hopefully the panel MI's and/or heatshield investigation will help to start answering these questions.
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- djellison   Out The Crater..   Dec 12 2004, 09:11 PM
- - TheChemist   Using the parallax calculator on this pair of Panc...   Dec 20 2004, 01:50 PM
- - djellison   I didnt think it would be THIS far - but the Paral...   Dec 20 2004, 01:55 PM
- - djellison   The 'feature' of imapact and leftovers is ...   Dec 20 2004, 04:13 PM
- - Sunspot   QUOTE (Pando @ Dec 17 2004, 07:42 AM)Latest: ...   Dec 21 2004, 10:22 AM
- - Sunspot   http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/oppor...eld_0...   Dec 21 2004, 05:55 PM
- - Decepticon   Maybe its a christmas Present! I'm curio...   Dec 21 2004, 07:50 PM
- - djellison   It might have been conditions specific to being in...   Dec 21 2004, 08:38 PM
- - DavidVicari   Any chance the nighttime frost helped in any way w...   Dec 21 2004, 08:46 PM
- - djellison   It was a thought - and I'm sure Geoffrey will ...   Dec 21 2004, 09:16 PM
- - slinted   QUOTE (DavidVicari @ Dec 21 2004, 08:46 PM)An...   Dec 21 2004, 10:34 PM
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