Comments on: Martian dust storm goes global https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/martian-dust-storm-goes-global/ Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:53:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Orion314 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/martian-dust-storm-goes-global/#comment-1055191 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:53:34 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52294#comment-1055191 look up thunderbolts project , on youtube , a starter for the electric universe model

]]> By: BSJ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/martian-dust-storm-goes-global/#comment-1054739 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:13:48 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52294#comment-1054739 Yeah, some of the E-Universe stuff sounds like it makes a lot of sense. Other times, not so much!

I checked out when I read about that part of the “theory”.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/martian-dust-storm-goes-global/#comment-1054736 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:04:20 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52294#comment-1054736 BSJ-
thank you, and…point taken.
-just a personal preference for over-engineering. (I only play an engineer, on the interweb)
And yes– can’t beat the lifespan!

tangential– (we are, living in the Future)
“Mariner 6 and 7 Programs Missions to Mars,”
JPL 1969
https://youtu.be/1rqjywAXYks
20:46

[from the Atlas Centaur Heritage Film Collection which was donated to the San Diego Air and Space Museum by Lockheed Martin and United Launch Alliance. The Collection contains 3,000 reels of 16-millimeter film. ]

]]> By: BSJ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/martian-dust-storm-goes-global/#comment-1054734 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:11:09 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52294#comment-1054734 Wayne,

Plug nickel tour. In the electric universe, impact craters are formed by lightning, not impacts…

Opportunity was designed to only last 90 days. Would have been a waste to send it with a nuclear source.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/martian-dust-storm-goes-global/#comment-1054713 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 01:20:25 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52294#comment-1054713 Orion314–
can you give me the 5 cent tour on the “Electric Universe?”
I see a lot of youtube stuff listed with that Topic, but I’ve never delved deeply.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/martian-dust-storm-goes-global/#comment-1054712 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 01:17:10 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52294#comment-1054712 wodun–
nail on the head. Every probe should be powered by internal nuclear.

–a repeat from me, but lots of good factoids contained therein:

Mars Dust Storm News
JPL teleconference 6-13-18
https://youtu.be/fIKxdRFx2Wo
(1:00:21)

–Teleconference reports the “Tau” was “11.5,” and they have pictures of what the sun currently looks like from the surface.
-Opportunity is powered by solar cells, but in the main instrument bay there are multiple small nuclear units that provide 8 watts of heat-energy to the electronics. (This is the first time I’ve heard this described, and I am unclear on specifics.)
-“Maximum design low-temperature is -50C, maximum operating low-temp is -40C, and during this storm they expect low temps to bottom out at -37C.”

–On the upside, from past storm experience– accumulated dust on the optics has tended to shed itself almost completely during good weather. The camera’s are finely calibrated and any remaining dust aberration can be taken out digitally in post-production.

]]> By: Orion314 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/martian-dust-storm-goes-global/#comment-1054710 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:01:31 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52294#comment-1054710 The electric universe model contends Mars global dust storms tie in with opposition of earth.

]]> By: wodun https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/martian-dust-storm-goes-global/#comment-1054705 Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:59:12 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52294#comment-1054705 This is why we need nuclear power.

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