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re: Did dust devils ever sweep off the Viking landers or Mars Pathfinder?

Chris Vancil — 10/31/2005 10:08:55 PM (archived)

Pathfinder did detect a dust Devil passing over it. I'm not sure they ever images any with Sojourner's or Pathfinder's cameras.

Viking Landers might of detected such things (MET) but couldn't have imaged them as the camera wouldn't have caught moving objects very well.

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• Dust storm at Meridiani? - Raoul - 10/28/2005 4:15:31 PM
  • This is what a dust storm must look like... - Doug Ellison - 10/30/2005 10:14:57 PM
  • Hope those solar panels stay clean. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/28/2005 6:16:49 PM
    • Dust devils will do the job!!!!! - carl - 10/29/2005 5:44:58 PM
      • re: Dust devils will do the job!!!!! - Doug Ellison - 10/29/2005 6:44:06 PM
        • And dust "storms" might have negative effects. - Jacob Samorodin - 10/29/2005 9:16:42 PM
          • re: And dust "storms" might have negative effects. - LJK - 10/31/2005 3:13:05 PM
          • re: And dust "storms" might have negative effects. - Doug Ellison - 10/29/2005 9:23:43 PM
            • re: And dust "storms" might have negative effects. - Jacob Samorodin - 10/29/2005 9:31:17 PM
              • re:They use RHU (Radioactive Heater Units) - Chris Vancil - 10/29/2005 10:27:58 PM
                • Did you see this image from Viking of a dust storm? - LJK - 10/31/2005 3:50:12 PM
                  • re: Did you see this image from Viking of a dust storm? - Chris Vancil - 10/31/2005 10:03:41 PM
                • Did dust devils ever sweep off the Viking landers or Mars Pathfinder? - LJK - 10/31/2005 3:10:52 PM
                  • re: Did dust devils ever sweep off the Viking landers or Mars Pathfinder? - Chris Vancil - 10/31/2005 10:08:55 PM
                    • Viking - Nick Hoffman - 11/1/2005 2:01:41 AM
                      • re: Viking - Chris Vancil - 11/1/2005 5:54:50 AM
                        • re: Viking - LJK - 11/2/2005 8:16:32 PM
                          • re: Viking - Chris Vancil - 11/3/2005 10:39:26 AM
                            • Mars Pathfinder did see some dust devils - LJK - 11/4/2005 3:48:41 AM
                              • re: Thanks! (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 11/4/2005 11:57:02 AM
  • Clouds? (n/t) - Robert Clark - 10/28/2005 5:23:09 PM
    • Very recent Earth-based images - LJK - 10/28/2005 7:21:12 PM
      • Apparently the dust storm is breaking news - LJK - 10/28/2005 8:18:31 PM
        • re: Just when Mars - Raoul - 10/28/2005 11:35:17 PM
          • Use Halloween to educate the public on some astronomy with Mars - LJK - 10/31/2005 3:31:15 PM
            • HST image of Martian dust storm - LJK - 11/3/2005 2:35:21 PM