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Old 10-April-2005, 09:01 PM
PeteB PeteB is offline
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Now back to our regularly scheduled debunking. . . :roll:

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An hour may seem like a long time, but thermalconductivities are very low at 93K, and three minutes - or was it seconds - seems like an awful fast rate to steam methane out of sand.
The GC/MS folks had the foresight to have a heated inlet in case the probe survived landing. While on the surface the inlet was at 363 K, but cooled a little by the end of the ~1:10 of data acquired from the surface.