Post by Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe on Dec 21, 2005 16:10:05 GMT -6
Here is an image showing star trails and meteors overhead, but it doesn't look right.
marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/694/2P188014866EFFAKE1P2741L1M1.HTML
The trails are there, but so are pin points of stars as well. Unless this is a double exposure, what's the deal? Sometimes we take trail shots, close the shutter, wait a bit and take a snap of the stars on the same frame. But I cannot associate the points with the trails.
Unless the shots were combined from different times of the Martian night, I'm stumped.
marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/694/2P188014866EFFAKE1P2741L1M1.HTML
The trails are there, but so are pin points of stars as well. Unless this is a double exposure, what's the deal? Sometimes we take trail shots, close the shutter, wait a bit and take a snap of the stars on the same frame. But I cannot associate the points with the trails.
Unless the shots were combined from different times of the Martian night, I'm stumped.
