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Old January 7th 04, 07:11 PM
Deepan Majmudar
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Recent photos from the rover have shown a shallow crater nicknamed 'sleepy
hollow' not far from Spirit's landing site. In fact there appear to be
several such shallow bowls thought to be impact craters. Here's my (stupid)
question: What are the chances that some of these craters were created by
the bouncing airbags themselves?
Apparently 'sleepy hollow' is 30 ft across. Anyone know what the size of the
airbags is ? Just curious ....


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Old January 7th 04, 09:05 PM
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"Deepan Majmudar"
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Recent photos from the rover have shown a shallow crater nicknamed 'sleepy
hollow' not far from Spirit's landing site. In fact there appear to be
several such shallow bowls thought to be impact craters. Here's my

(stupid)
question: What are the chances that some of these craters were created by
the bouncing airbags themselves?
Apparently 'sleepy hollow' is 30 ft across. Anyone know what the size of

the
airbags is ? Just curious ....



There is not a chance that the landing
produced Sleepy Hollow. There are marks
within Sleepy Hollow that appear to have
been caused by the airbags - but certainly
not Sleepy Hollow itself.

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Old January 7th 04, 09:05 PM
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Default Question about the 'sleepy hollow' crater near the spirit rover


"Deepan Majmudar"
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Recent photos from the rover have shown a shallow crater nicknamed 'sleepy
hollow' not far from Spirit's landing site. In fact there appear to be
several such shallow bowls thought to be impact craters. Here's my

(stupid)
question: What are the chances that some of these craters were created by
the bouncing airbags themselves?
Apparently 'sleepy hollow' is 30 ft across. Anyone know what the size of

the
airbags is ? Just curious ....



There is not a chance that the landing
produced Sleepy Hollow. There are marks
within Sleepy Hollow that appear to have
been caused by the airbags - but certainly
not Sleepy Hollow itself.

 




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