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New Movies of Whirlwinds on Mars
FleaPlus writes "The Pasadena Star-News, APOD, and WPBF report on new movies of Martian whirlwinds, captured by Spirit rover inside Gusev Crater. These movies are the result of a new imaging technique developed after the initial spotting of whirlwinds by Spirit last month.
Here is the first and second video. According to a rover team member, 'This is the best look we've ever gotten of the wind effects on the martian surface as they are happening.'"
Clearly this effect is caused by the recoil of an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator
Interesting to see what the weather looks like on Mars. What I'd like to know is if weather.com is going to start posting forecasts for other planetary bodies anytime soon.
Very nice to know that the dust devils are helping the rovers along. I wonder if we could get them to wash and wax the rovers as well.
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
These movies are certainly better that Red Planet.
What if that mime really is trapped in a box?
...and in conclusion, this footage offers concrete proof that there are not martian dust devils, as my esteemed colleges suggest, but proof of Tasmain Martianius Spinnus maximus, or in laymas terms, Martian Tasmanian Devils.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
The properties of fluids are the same on Earth and Mars.
Man, what if all of physics works the same there? Just think of the number of stories.
"Scientist discovers light on Mars!"
"Stuff falls down when you drop it on Mars!"
"On Mars, stuff stays where you put it!"
"On Mars, a rock keeps moving if you kick it!"
"Mars displays friction!"
"On Mars, energy tends to move from stuff with more to stuff with less!"
This didn't start out as a Troll, sorry. I'm just tired of Martian News of the obvious.
sigs, as if you care.
This just in: Mars Blows
Actually it looks more like a piece of Beagle
carbon based life forms copulating in connubial bliss.
How do we know that these "dust devils" aren't really martian orgies? Or those whirlwinds when the road runner and Wile E. Coyote fight? Or the cloud created when Pigpen walks anywhere in Peanuts cartoons?
(tongue firmly in cheek)
You mean, in the same way that Boreas, God of the North Wind, causes winter gales hear on Earth - by "pushing"? :)
Are there any deer in the theater tonight? Get 'em up against the wall.
Looks like dust kicked up by aerial machine gun fire. Maybe the martians are using the rover as a training target.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
No, the post has no business being on Slashdot because here, you're supposed to mindlessly jeer at the Space Shuttle and call NASA a complete cultural failure. You're supposed to complain about costs and technical problems on subjects that you've never worked and hardly even know the basics about, by picking a choice selection of quotes from a handful of individuals and ignoring what the majority of those who have actually worked on the projects have stated. And lastly, no matter how ridiculously small a feat a private company achieves in reference to space, you're supposed to treat it like it's as good as a Saturn V. Strangely, there is an exception: you're supposed to ignore the actual *relevant* accomplishments of private companies in space, such as the Pegasus rocket, and only cheer for those who make joyrides.
Are there any deer in the theater tonight? Get 'em up against the wall.