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Dust Storm? |
 Dec 29 2004, 08:23 PM
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QUOTE Pando : Latest: There are indications that there is a possible dust storm developing. The power levels have dropped quite dramatically at around Sol 330 for Opportunity and is somewhat worrisome. At Gusev things are trending similarly although it's a Sol or so later. This is getting interesting as it may even mean a global dust storm This seems to be deserving of its own topic, going off of Pando's post in the heatshield thread. Unfortunetly, the TES mainpage doesn't have daily dust maps anymore, and the latest bolometer images are from Dec 21: QUOTE The TES spectrometer is currently being used intermittently. At this time we're no longer producing daily images or movies of 15 micron atmospheric temperature or dust opacity. The TES bolometer is still being used full-time, and we will continue to update the daytime and nighttime temperature movies. I was looking at the rear haz from Sol 331, wondering what sort of clouds might be responsible, but a dust storm might make more sense. 
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slinted Dust Storm? Dec 29 2004, 08:23 PM
dot.dk This could be real bad news
Can they put the r... Dec 29 2004, 08:41 PM Decepticon I see why not?
Just make sure the Batts are fully... Dec 29 2004, 10:25 PM slinted If this is indeed the begining of a global dust st... Dec 29 2004, 10:48 PM lyford I'm no expert, but that looks like a light art... Dec 29 2004, 11:07 PM Sunspot changed my rather emabarrassing original message l... Dec 29 2004, 11:08 PM akuo The MGS used to take dust measurements daily, but ... Dec 29 2004, 11:12 PM lyford QUOTE (Sunspot @ Dec 29 2004, 11:08 PM)Defina... Dec 29 2004, 11:21 PM Sunspot Forward HazCam shot: Dec 29 2004, 11:24 PM alan never mind Dec 29 2004, 11:29 PM Sunspot There is a message in the group dated Dec 12 2004 ... Dec 29 2004, 11:34 PM lyford QUOTE (Sunspot @ Dec 29 2004, 11:34 PM)There ... Dec 30 2004, 12:26 AM Sunspot Well.......at least we got to see the heatshield. Dec 30 2004, 12:32 AM slinted OK, I'm fairly convinced now that Lyford is co... Dec 30 2004, 09:23 AM akuo Slinted, I wondered about the rear hazcam images t... Dec 30 2004, 11:33 AM akuo Ok, the effect is again visible in today's rea... Dec 30 2004, 12:52 PM Sunspot How much of a power drop did Opportunity experienc... Dec 30 2004, 01:14 PM lyford well, the same shmutz is on the rear hazcam images... Dec 30 2004, 06:55 PM slinted QUOTE (akuo @ Dec 30 2004, 12:52 PM)Ok, the e... Dec 30 2004, 07:15 PM Sunspot Is it just me or do the shadows ast by the pancam ... Dec 30 2004, 07:17 PM slinted QUOTE (Sunspot @ Dec 30 2004, 07:17 PM)Is it ... Dec 30 2004, 07:31 PM Sunspot Well we should find out whats happening at Mondays... Dec 30 2004, 07:36 PM Pando QUOTE (slinted @ Dec 29 2004, 01:23 PM)This s... Dec 31 2004, 05:40 AM Pando To give you an idea what's going on, the atmos... Dec 31 2004, 06:22 AM Pando QUOTE How much of a power drop did Opportunity exp... Dec 31 2004, 08:27 AM lyford Again, thanks Pando for the inside scoop! Dec 31 2004, 07:45 PM mhoward Pando has already filled us in, but the duststorm ... Jan 5 2005, 11:48 PM Pando Eh! took them a while...
Here's some f... Jan 6 2005, 12:08 AM Sunspot QUOTE (Pando @ Jan 6 2005, 12:08 AM)338 - 343... Jan 6 2005, 12:32 AM djellison This is quite an interesting issue. Something spec... Jan 18 2005, 07:10 PM BruceMoomaw A nicely detailed new Planetary Society article on... Jan 22 2005, 03:26 PM akuo JPL has released dust comparison images between th... Jan 26 2005, 03:38 PM remcook so, what do they use to calibrate the pictures now... Jan 26 2005, 05:35 PM djellison You kind of have to trust Pancam I guess. You cali... Jan 26 2005, 07:49 PM akuo There is also one almost clean spot on the rovers.... Jan 26 2005, 09:36 PM sjdprods If dust accumulation on the cells got to a point o... Jan 26 2005, 11:10 PM djellison It's barely possible kinematically ( i..e the ... Jan 26 2005, 11:47 PM Marcel QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 26 2005, 07:49 PM)You ... Jan 28 2005, 01:28 PM djellison QUOTE (Marcel @ Jan 28 2005, 01:28 PM)while w... Jan 28 2005, 01:38 PM Marcel About the deposition of dust: one the huge advanta... Jan 28 2005, 03:35 PM
djellison QUOTE (Marcel @ Jan 28 2005, 03:35 PM)gltrs.g... Jan 28 2005, 04:27 PM  |
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