New Mars Dust Devil Movies - Must See

Check out the new various movies of multiple simultaneous twisters from
the surface of Mars.

The link:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...20050819a.html

(I know dust-devils have been known for some time, but don't miss these
new ones, they're pretty neat. BTW, I originally thought this was too
O.T. to X-post in sci.astro.seti, but then I thought perhaps the
astrobiology folks might like to see them; they might make a good spore
propagation transport mechanism, even in such a thin atmosphere. It's
like L.A. in the "The Day After Tomorrow", but on Mars :^)


Jason H.

In message .com,
Jason H. writes
Check out the new various movies of multiple simultaneous twisters from
the surface of Mars.

The link:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...20050819a.html

(I know dust-devils have been known for some time, but don't miss these
new ones, they're pretty neat. BTW, I originally thought this was too
O.T. to X-post in sci.astro.seti, but then I thought perhaps the
astrobiology folks might like to see them; they might make a good spore
propagation transport mechanism, even in such a thin atmosphere. It's
like L.A. in the "The Day After Tomorrow", but on Mars :^)


Thanks for posting these links. If you want another SETI connection,
there's the opening sequence of "Mission to Mars", though that one's a
lot bigger :-)
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Well done, Jason! Many of us would not have known of these movies but for
your posting the URL. Thanks.
Dan Smith


"Jason H." wrote in message
oups.com...
Check out the new various movies of multiple simultaneous twisters from
the surface of Mars.

The link:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...20050819a.html

(I know dust-devils have been known for some time, but don't miss these
new ones, they're pretty neat. BTW, I originally thought this was too
O.T. to X-post in sci.astro.seti, but then I thought perhaps the
astrobiology folks might like to see them; they might make a good spore
propagation transport mechanism, even in such a thin atmosphere. It's
like L.A. in the "The Day After Tomorrow", but on Mars :^)


Jason H.

Jason H. wrote:
Check out the new various movies of multiple simultaneous twisters from
the surface of Mars.

The link:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...20050819a.html

(I know dust-devils have been known for some time, but don't miss these
new ones, they're pretty neat. BTW, I originally thought this was too
O.T. to X-post in sci.astro.seti, but then I thought perhaps the
astrobiology folks might like to see them; they might make a good spore
propagation transport mechanism, even in such a thin atmosphere. It's
like L.A. in the "The Day After Tomorrow", but on Mars :^)


Jason H.

What are those numbers that appear in the lower left-hand corner of the
"movie" frames? They look like frame numbers, but they are wildly out
of order. Does that mean that the frames are shown out of order and
that, therefore, they have been selected to produce a misleading
sequence?

Mark Adkins

wrote in message
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Jason H. wrote:
Check out the new various movies of multiple simultaneous twisters from
the surface of Mars.

The link:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...20050819a.html

(I know dust-devils have been known for some time, but don't miss these
new ones, they're pretty neat. BTW, I originally thought this was too
O.T. to X-post in sci.astro.seti, but then I thought perhaps the
astrobiology folks might like to see them; they might make a good spore
propagation transport mechanism, even in such a thin atmosphere. It's
like L.A. in the "The Day After Tomorrow", but on Mars :^)


Jason H.

What are those numbers that appear in the lower left-hand corner of the
"movie" frames? They look like frame numbers, but they are wildly out
of order. Does that mean that the frames are shown out of order and
that, therefore, they have been selected to produce a misleading
sequence?

Mark Adkins


They had to cut out the frames that had the storm chasers running after the
dust devils. Sheeesh

wrote:
Jason H. wrote:

Check out the new various movies of multiple simultaneous twisters from
the surface of Mars.

The link:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...20050819a.html

snip


What are those numbers that appear in the lower left-hand corner of the
"movie" frames? They look like frame numbers, but they are wildly out
of order. Does that mean that the frames are shown out of order and
that, therefore, they have been selected to produce a misleading
sequence?

I just double-checked all the animated gifs on that page to check your
claim. Each gif's frame numbers are monotonically increasing, except
where the frame number rolls back over to zero. No frame numbers
are "out of order"; some numbers are just skipped.

Russ

Russ Childers wrote:
wrote:
Jason H. wrote:

Check out the new various movies of multiple simultaneous twisters from
the surface of Mars.

The link:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...20050819a.html

snip


What are those numbers that appear in the lower left-hand corner of the
"movie" frames? They look like frame numbers, but they are wildly out
of order. Does that mean that the frames are shown out of order and
that, therefore, they have been selected to produce a misleading
sequence?

I just double-checked all the animated gifs on that page to check your
claim. Each gif's frame numbers are monotonically increasing, except
where the frame number rolls back over to zero. No frame numbers
are "out of order"; some numbers are just skipped.

Russ

So they are -- now.

Mark Adkins

That is the first time I have seen movement on another planet!

Marvellous

Chris.
wrote in message
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Russ Childers wrote:
wrote:
Jason H. wrote:

Check out the new various movies of multiple simultaneous twisters from
the surface of Mars.

The link:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...20050819a.html

snip


What are those numbers that appear in the lower left-hand corner of the
"movie" frames? They look like frame numbers, but they are wildly out
of order. Does that mean that the frames are shown out of order and
that, therefore, they have been selected to produce a misleading
sequence?

I just double-checked all the animated gifs on that page to check your
claim. Each gif's frame numbers are monotonically increasing, except
where the frame number rolls back over to zero. No frame numbers
are "out of order"; some numbers are just skipped.

Russ

So they are -- now.

Mark Adkins