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This is a nice piece of work

Gary — 12/30/2004 6:44:18 PM (archived)

Daniel,

My compliments to you. This is a very nice piece of work. The most important image to discover and analyze is the actual spherical section of the heatshield. You can see half of a metallic ring on the largest fragment that would have formed the circumference around the spherical section (refer to

and look at the very top of the wreck). The stagnation point and location of maximum heating was on the spherical section. It was probably wrecked beyond recognition by the impact.

Gary

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The whole thread (23 posts)

• MER heatshield - Nick Hoffman - 12/27/2004 12:32:29 PM
  • Closeup on the other Heatshield Section - Daniel Crotty - 12/29/2004 6:58:22 PM
    • This is a nice piece of work - Gary - 12/30/2004 6:44:18 PM
    • re: Closeup on the other Heatshield Section - Tom Brosz - 12/29/2004 9:36:46 PM
      • No, it's a red herring - Gary - 12/30/2004 6:28:52 PM
  • Don't forget the rest of it... - Tom Brosz - 12/27/2004 6:57:13 PM
    • re: Don't forget the rest of it... - Delbert - 12/27/2004 7:41:50 PM
    • I expect the geologists (aereologists?) will be very interested in that gouge in the surface. - Tom Brosz - 12/27/2004 7:03:13 PM
  • MER heatshield commentary - Gary - 12/27/2004 6:08:11 PM
  • re: MER heatshield tolerance question - ebnelson - 12/27/2004 4:16:26 PM
  • Nifty image - Donald - 12/27/2004 2:42:56 PM
    • the archaeology of Mars. - Buck Galaxy - 12/27/2004 5:34:02 PM
      • Yes in that our equipment is alien to Mars those are alien artifacts. (n/t) - Delbert - 12/27/2004 5:46:35 PM
  • re: Illuminating - BRFelix - 12/27/2004 2:30:39 PM
    • How much does a ramen spectrometer weigh? (n/t) - alcaray - 12/27/2004 9:48:04 PM
      • Its 'Raman' - R.L. - 12/28/2004 10:50:51 PM
        • The original Athena instrument package... - alcaray - 12/29/2004 6:56:47 PM
      • re: Well, prolly a couple of ounces... - BRFelix - 12/28/2004 12:50:09 AM
        • Spelled it wrong, did I? (n/t) - alcaray - 12/28/2004 5:42:51 PM
          • Nothing personal... - Tom Brosz - 12/29/2004 5:57:06 AM
            • agreed. (n/t) - alcaray - 12/29/2004 4:33:57 PM
      • Before or after you add the boiling water? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/28/2004 12:46:22 AM
  • That's an interesting picture. (n/t) - Bowser - 12/27/2004 1:55:34 PM