'Scary Storm' on Mars Could Doom Rovers


	'Scary Storm' on Mars Could Doom Rovers

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7-6-2007 5:35 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/04f19d83-28a9-4a9d-925b-26f5381ce351/4B7EFB67-2A37-4787-9B2E-0FDF8B7BE2D0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/news/070705_dusty_rovers.html" href="http://www.space.com/news/070705_dusty_rovers.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/news/070705_dusty_rovers.html">'Scary Storm' on Mars Could Doom Rovers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/news/070705_dusty_rovers.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/8886ACAE-D50D-470C-AE21-FF1301BB0FC4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/news/070705_dusty_rovers.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="apple-style-span"><SPAN>A giant dust storm that now covers nearly the entire southern hemisphere of Mars could permanently jeopardize the future of the Mars Exploration Rovers mission, officials told <A href="http://www.space.com"><I>SPACE.com</I></A> today.</SPAN></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/news/070705_dusty_rovers.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="apple-style-span"><SPAN>The new and potentially bleak outlook is a stark shift from the prognosis <A href="http://www.space.com/news/070704_rovers_dust.html">earlier this week</A>. Further compounding the threat to the rovers, a second large dust storm has recently appeared on the Red Planet.</SPAN></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/news/070705_dusty_rovers.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="apple-style-span"><SPAN>The first and largest dusty squall has reduced direct
sunlight to Mars' surface by nearly 99 percent, an unprecedented threat for
the solar-powered rovers. If the storm keeps up and thickens with
even more dust, officials fear the rovers' batteries may empty and silence the
robotic explorers forever.</SPAN></SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4B7EFB67-2A37-4787-9B2E-0FDF8B7BE2D0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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