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Tag Archives: planet-encircling dust event
HiRISE: Seeing through the dusty air
Mars has been enveloped in dusty haze, but the sensitivity of HiRISE enables imaging of surface features through a moderate level of haze. This image shows a fresh impact crater in the northern middle latitudes. A technique called “pixel binning” … Continue reading
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Tagged global dust storm, haze, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, pixel binning, planet-encircling dust event, University of Arizona
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Opportunity report, Sol 5162, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
August 1, 2018: Dust Storm Wanes, Opportunity Sleeps, Team Prepares Recovery Strategy: Opportunity may be seeing the light again, a little sunlight that is. As the veteran Mars Exploration Rover (MER) slept in Endeavour Crater’s Perseverance Valley under the thick … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, dust storms, Endeavour Crater, global dust storms, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, PEDE, Perseverance Valley, planet-encircling dust event, weather
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