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Opportunity tried to see the descent, but it did not work: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/10191525-brief-update-opportunitys.html http://
by mturmon 10y ago
Opportunity tried to see the descent, but it did not work: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/10191525-brief-update-opportunitys.html http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/1019152...
- smpetrey 10y agoDamn. So cosmic rays are pretty intense huh?
- mturmon 10y agoYes. Cosmic rays are a significant obstacle to any kind of automated event detection in imagery taken from space, especially outside low Earth orbit. That streak was a classic CR. Depending on the angle of incidence on the CCD, you can see different shapes.
- michaelcampbell 10y agoI love reading her stuff, even if I don't understand a lot of it. Her twitter feed is fantastic.