To: hattend
Hope you don't mind as it's a bit early yet prior to landing, but this is one of my favorite images of the Martian surface.
Clouds above the rim of "Endurance Crater" in this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. These clouds occur in a region of strong vertical shear. The cloud particles (ice in this martian case) fall out, and get dragged along away from the location where they originally condensed, forming characteristic streamers. Opportunity took this picture with its navigation camera during the rover's 269th martian day (Oct. 26, 2004). (NASA/JPL)
60 posted on
08/05/2012 1:22:31 PM PDT by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion or tools of deceit)
To: dragnet2
61 posted on
08/05/2012 1:24:39 PM PDT by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: dragnet2
On Earth, we call those cirrus clouds!
To: dragnet2
"...but this is one of my favorite images of the Martian surface."
Looks very much like my place in July this summer--clouds and all (over 9,000 feet here).
624 posted on
08/07/2012 8:19:01 PM PDT by
familyop
("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
To: dragnet2
Oops...June and halfway through July. There was only sparse, patchy, dried out, very short plant life here.
625 posted on
08/07/2012 8:21:29 PM PDT by
familyop
("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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