At 11:43 AM 16/02/04 +0930, you wrote:
>
> It's early in the week, but this is probably going to be the most useless
>piece of information you'll come across in that period:
>
> It quotes a reasonably authoritative source:
> Mars rover detects warm pockets in atmosphere
>
> BY CHRIS KRIDLER
> FLORIDA TODAY
> Feb 12, 2004
>
> CAPE CANAVERAL -- Mars weather watchers haven't seen towering dust
> devils yet through the rovers' eyes, but they are measuring
> intriguing spikes in temperature.
try www.spacedaily.com for more on this. I want to know how they select the
altitudee they are looking at from a ground based instrument. I think there
was something in Soaring (US) a while back about the infra red sights on
the Apache attack helo being able to see thermals too.
Mike
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