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Cruise Stage Impacts
paxdan
post Apr 5 2005, 08:07 AM
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The rovers separated from their cruise stages about 15 minutes before atmospheric entry, they would have been doing 5.4 km/s at the point they slammed into the atmosphere. How much of the 193 kg of the cruise stage would have survived passage through the atmosphere, how fast would it have been going when it impacted the surface and has anyone identified the impact location or have an image of the crater. I'm posting this in the Oppy thread as we visited Oppy's 78 kg heatshield impact site but impact location calculations and imaging of Spirits cruise stage impact site would be most welcome.
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post Apr 5 2005, 06:05 PM
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Could the dark splotch east of our recently visited crater triplet be the imapct of surviving CS components?

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- paxdan   Cruise Stage Impacts   Apr 5 2005, 08:07 AM
- - djellison   The thought has crossed my mind - I'm not sure...   Apr 5 2005, 08:35 AM
|- - Marcel   QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 5 2005, 08:35 AM)The t...   Apr 5 2005, 09:28 AM
|- - paxdan   QUOTE (Marcel @ Apr 5 2005, 10:28 AM)I guess ...   Apr 5 2005, 09:56 AM
- - djellison   No - the cruise stage is totally dead once it...   Apr 5 2005, 10:06 AM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 5 2005, 04:06 AM)No - ...   Apr 5 2005, 02:30 PM
- - djellison   So basically we should be scouering MOC images wes...   Apr 5 2005, 02:47 PM
|- - Marcel   QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 5 2005, 02:47 PM)So ba...   Apr 5 2005, 03:11 PM
- - djellison   I dont think they'll have spent very long goin...   Apr 5 2005, 03:39 PM
|- - chris   QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 5 2005, 03:39 PM)I don...   Apr 5 2005, 04:44 PM
- - Pertinax   Could the dark splotch east of our recently visite...   Apr 5 2005, 06:05 PM

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