Hi I don't know for sure but here are a couple of photos showing the results.FieryIce wrote:How can an enviroment with little atmosphere contain or hold a storm or have a storm front? How can an eviroment with little atmosphere have a planet wide dust storm? In the images of the planet wide storm where is the storm front, how is it created? Where is the dust on the rovers?
The fact that it's planetwide is rather interesting. On earth the oceans are the dominant influence on the weather, and storms are localized based on the ocean or continent they form in. On Mars you don't have the same huge discontinuties interferring with large storms forming. I couldn't tell you where the front is or specifically how its created.FieryIce wrote:How can an enviroment with little atmosphere contain or hold a storm or have a storm front? How can an eviroment with little atmosphere have a planet wide dust storm? In the images of the planet wide storm where is the storm front, how is it created? Where is the dust on the rovers?
Electric charges can cause all those effects, but apparently that possibility has not been considered yet.FieryIce wrote:How can an enviroment with little atmosphere contain or hold a storm or have a storm front? How can an eviroment with little atmosphere have a planet wide dust storm? In the images of the planet wide storm where is the storm front, how is it created? Where is the dust on the rovers?
JohnJohnD wrote:Is that a new picture of the 'entrance' to Victoria Crater?
There's nothing new on the Mars Rovers' home page: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/ since the last day of August.
John
I understand storm fronts causing the buildup of electric charges, that happens enough here in Oklahoma. But electric charges causing storms? I don't understand this, please explain.SmartAZ wrote:Electric charges can cause all those effects, but apparently that possibility has not been considered yet.
Note that the raw image gallery tends to be a couple days behind current operations, especially right now with low power. They aren't transmitting whole images to save power. Instead, they're having the rovers send thumbnails, then they pick the most interesting ones to be sent in full resolution. That's why you'll often see "new" images that were taken a week ago.BMAONE23 wrote:JohnJohnD wrote:Is that a new picture of the 'entrance' to Victoria Crater?
There's nothing new on the Mars Rovers' home page: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/ since the last day of August.
John
Try here for up to date daily images
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/
click on the opportunity or spirit link
BMA,BMAONE23 wrote:JohnJohnD wrote:Is that a new picture of the 'entrance' to Victoria Crater?
There's nothing new on the Mars Rovers' home page: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/ since the last day of August.
John
Try here for up to date daily images
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/
click on the opportunity or spirit link
Astronomers in general haven't studied electrical effects in space, but some plasma physicists have. Plasma physics is outside my expertise (I designed the Dolby digital stereo system for VH1) but you can get a few hundred pages of introduction at http://thunderbolts.infobystander wrote:I understand storm fronts causing the buildup of electric charges, that happens enough here in Oklahoma. But electric charges causing storms? I don't understand this, please explain.SmartAZ wrote:Electric charges can cause all those effects, but apparently that possibility has not been considered yet.
