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| blog:articles:general:martian_weird_spring [2019/07/22 18:23] – [Southern Hemisphere] Phil Ide | blog:articles:general:martian_weird_spring [2019/07/23 05:13] – [Martian Spring Weirdness] Phil Ide | ||
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| - | To explain this, we need to understand everything that is contributing to the issue, so we can then draw some conclusions that fit the data. Yup, we're going to be doing some science. Don't panic though, this is low-level stuff and pretty easy. | + | To explain this, we need to understand everything that is contributing to the issue, so we can then draw some conclusions that fit the data. |
| ===== Identifying the Problem ===== | ===== Identifying the Problem ===== | ||
| First off, let's take a snapshot of the data received from the InSight lander on Mars, and present it in an easily digestible form. | First off, let's take a snapshot of the data received from the InSight lander on Mars, and present it in an easily digestible form. | ||
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| Hellas Planitia, an incredibly large and deep impact basin in the southern hemisphere, is so deep that air pressure in its lowest areas is sufficient to sustain liquid water. At the moment, nearly all our experiments we've sent to the Martian surface, have landed in the northern hemisphere. The Curiosity rover is an exception to this, but it is wandering around inside Gale Crater, just south of the equator and only a few hundred kilometres from InSight. It will be very interesting to get on-sight weather data from deeper in the southern hemisphere, which we'll surely do as our ability to land on much more [[: | Hellas Planitia, an incredibly large and deep impact basin in the southern hemisphere, is so deep that air pressure in its lowest areas is sufficient to sustain liquid water. At the moment, nearly all our experiments we've sent to the Martian surface, have landed in the northern hemisphere. The Curiosity rover is an exception to this, but it is wandering around inside Gale Crater, just south of the equator and only a few hundred kilometres from InSight. It will be very interesting to get on-sight weather data from deeper in the southern hemisphere, which we'll surely do as our ability to land on much more [[: | ||
| - | //images courtesy of Mars24, a freeware program | + | //images courtesy of [[https:// |
| + | Graph generated by the author, based on data available from NASA's [[https:// | ||
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| ~~DISCUSSION~~ | ~~DISCUSSION~~ | ||