Thought. There’s a lot of satellite imagery of the seas from the time of crash. I think there was some crowdsourced attempt of search.
Could the images from then be coupled with the data from now, and look at them again?
I think they don’t know exactly when the crash was, and a splash would only be evident for a few minutes.
That’s a hell of a haystack.
The splash vanishes quickly. The floating debris lasts for days to weeks.
Good point.
Yeah but the flaperon would probably have floated mostly submerged, and so little debris has been found that the aircraft must have sunk almost intact.,
There’s a lot of bright-colored debris in the hull. If it disintegrated at least somewhat, which the fragments suggest, there should be a patch, albeit short-lived, of stuff on the sea. Many things float poorly but many float pretty well (and get dispersed quickly by wind).
In addition to a phylogenetic study of the barnacles, I wonder if their stable isotopic ratios could be studied to identify where the scant debris was colonized; presumably this would have happened shortly after the plane crashed. I think barnacles can be aged too, so looking at the total diversity of barnacles and their age structure might provide some insight.
Maybe this will help. . .
The driving force for densification is the change in free energy from the decrease in surface area and lowering of the surface free energy by the replacement of solid-vapor interfaces.
Maybe this will help. . .
The driving force for densification is the change in free energy from the decrease in surface area and lowering of the surface free energy by the replacement of solid-vapor interfaces.
You posted this in the wrong thread. It is more germane to the Weirdest Border Enclave
story.
This needs a map.
Location of Réunion
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