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Weather update from Gale Crater
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Tagged Curiosity, dust storms, Gale Crater, global dust storms, Mars Science Laboratory, MSL, NASA, temperature, weather
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MARCI weather report, September 10-16, 2018
Multiple local-scale dust storms picked up along the seasonal south polar ice cap of Mars this past week. This activity that extended over Aonia, Cimmeria, and near the Mountains of Mitchel generated a diffuse dust cloud along the cap edge. … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, clouds, dust, dust storms, global dust storms, haze, Malin Space Science Systems, MARCI, Mars Color Imager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mountains of Mitchel, MRO, MSSS, NASA, storms, weather, wind
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Opportunity: Attempting contact multiple times a day
NASA Mars Exploration Rover Status Report, September 12, 2018: The Opportunity team is increasing the frequency of commands it beams to the rover via the dishes of NASA’s Deep Space Network from three times a week to multiple times per … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, dust storms, Endeavour Crater, global dust storms, haze, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, wind
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Weather update from Gale Crater
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MARCI weather report, September 3-9, 2018
Slightly hazy conditions continued across many regions of Mars last week. Near the start and end of the week, a couple small dust lifting events occurred over the low-latitudes of Noachis Terra. Looking to the eastern hemisphere, a transient local-scale … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, clouds, dust, dust storms, global dust storms, haze, Malin Space Science Systems, MARCI, Mars Color Imager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, MSSS, NASA, storms, weather, wind
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Weather update from Gale Crater
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Opportunity report, Sol 5193, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
September 9, 2018: NASA Focuses on Recovering Opportunity as Storm Diminishes and Dust Settles: The dust raising power of the storms that wrapped Mars in a cloud in June and July diminished in August, sending all that powdery stuff back … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, dust, dust storms, Endeavour Crater, global dust storms, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, weather, wind
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MARCI weather report, Aug 27-Sept 2, 2018
Dusty atmospheric conditions resulting from the planetary-encircling dust event continued to wane across much of Mars for the past week. Looking to the equatorial latitudes, a couple short-lived dust events were observed over North Central Noachis Terra. Further west, dust … Continue reading
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Weather update from Gale Crater
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Tagged Curiosity, dust storms, Gale Crater, global dust storms, Mars Science Laboratory, MSL, NASA, temperature, weather
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Weather update from Gale Crater
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