To: OCC
But why no signal-blocking corona?
17 posted on
05/26/2008 8:42:20 PM PDT by
MindBender26
(Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
To: MindBender26
But why no signal-blocking corona? Maybe because of Mars's thinner atmosphere? Have we tried to keep contact with a lander before, or did their locations/attitude/deployed antennas keep NASA from even trying on previous landings?
20 posted on
05/26/2008 8:45:55 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Pray for Rattendaemmerung: the final mutually destructive battle between Obama and Hillary in Denver)
To: MindBender26
I didnt realize the Phoenix was the first lander since Viking not to use air bags for landing.
22 posted on
05/26/2008 8:49:57 PM PDT by
OCC
To: MindBender26
Probably too thin an atmosphere to develop the ionized plasma around the spacecraft.
23 posted on
05/26/2008 8:52:20 PM PDT by
Ranxerox
To: MindBender26
MindBender - off the top of my head, I believe the Martian atmosphere is only about 25% as dense as the Earth - could be a factor - Mars has less gravity than Earth and no magnetic field, so most of its atmosphere has been ripped away by the Solar Wind
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