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Op woensdag 23 juni 2004 03:07 schreef Aurora025 het volgende:3) Marsfoto's van NASA waarop vreemde objecten te zien zijn.
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Dit is allang opgelost....
Most team members agreed that the "bunny ears" had been,
at some point, part of the rover or its lander.
The yellowish color led many to conclude that the
object was a piece of airbag material.
The Mars Pathfinder mission set a precedent in 1997 for
puzzling pieces around the landing site. An object dubbed "Pinky"
caught the attention of the Pathfinder science team and the public.
Although never positively identified, it was thought to be a piece of
Kapton tape – an adhesive used often in aerospace applications.
Without seeing the "bunny ears" object up close with our own eyes, it's difficult to provide a positive identification. However, scientists and engineers are quick to deflate the myth that it is anything inexplicable.
"Our team believes that this odd-looking feature is a piece of soft material that definitely came from our vehicle," said Rob Manning, lead engineer for entry, descent and landing. "We cannot say exactly where it came from but we can say that there are several possibilities: cotton insulation, Vectran covers and wraps from the airbag,Zylon bridle tensioning ties, or felt insulation from the gas generators.... The list goes on. We do not think this is parachute material, however, due to its color (it does not look blue enough to be the undyed nylon or red enough to be the dyed nylon).
Knowing the possibility that we could have left a bit of a mess nearby, once we saw this feature we only marveled at how clean everything looked and we have not given it another thought. We try to make sure that bits do not fall off, but they do, and we were not at all surprised."
Johnson took the visual color clues a step further. He measured the visible light spectrum from the Pancam image of the "bunny ears" and compared it to the spectrum of a sample of airbag material. The nearly identical spectra are distinct from typical martian soil or rock spectra and lead Johnson to believe that the "bunny ears" are, indeed, a wayward piece of airbag material or something similar.
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