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Re: Search meteorites on Mars
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- Subject: Re: Search meteorites on Mars
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:54:22 GMT
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>I have been thinking about meteorites on Mars recently. For one, a sample
>return mission would probably leave a meteorite behind in favor of a Mars
>rock!
Why do you say that? The goal would be to try to collect as many different
type of rocks as possible.
>Second, that icky red dust
>would always be getting all over your meteorite hunting cane.
True, particularly if a dust storm passes through.
>One more thing I have wondered: why not have a Discovery-class Mars lander
>outfitted with a camera pointing up?During the day, you have that camera as
>a part of the meteorology package, doing cloud triangulation, etc. At night,
>it gets some long-exposure images for meteor counts and triangulation, plus
>some good PR.
Why not submit a proposal? Anybody can submit a Discovery proposal.
>Does Mars have its own unique meteor showers. I bet! But have instruments
>ever measured them?
Mars probably does have meteor showers, but none has been detected yet.
Ron Baalke
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