MER@5 Years, Your thoughts and congratulations to the MER teams |
MER@5 Years, Your thoughts and congratulations to the MER teams |
Jan 3 2009, 07:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Five Years of Spirit on Mars
I normally don't go re-posting the blogs that I know most of us here read regularly, but I have to point out what a wonderful job Emily did in digesting five years of Spirit's exploration into one commentary/column of under 1800 words. I can't wait to read Opportunity's story later this month. http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001796/ -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jan 3 2009, 06:38 PM
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It's fantastic that Sprirt and Oppy have reached this milestone...
Superb and concise article on Spirit's acheivements by Emily. |
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Jan 3 2009, 08:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 213 Joined: 21-January 07 From: Wigan, England Member No.: 1638 |
Excellent summary! To celebrate the milestone, I've cut together a selection of some of the more amusing moments during the early press briefings:
http://www.speedyshare.com/556118174.html |
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Jan 3 2009, 08:19 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 31-August 07 From: College Station, TX Member No.: 3568 |
I opened up a bottle of sparkling grape juice to celebrate
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Jan 3 2009, 10:13 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 568 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Silesia Member No.: 299 |
Official "Bonestell" panoramas available (annotated, stereo, false color, true color).
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/s.../20081230a.html -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Jan 3 2009, 10:22 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10231 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Very nice panorama. Unfortunately they have repeated the frequent error of mistaking Lookout Point for West Spur. West Spur is not visible from here.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jan 4 2009, 01:03 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I'm glad y'all liked the synopsis. Actually I'm not scheduled to do an Opportunity podcast -- Jim Bell is doing one on the 24th, but he's taken a slightly different angle than just doing a "plot summary" of the last five years. If I can find the time, though, I'll try to do one!
--Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jan 4 2009, 02:11 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
As has been done previously with Mars Rover anniversaries, let me mark our celebrations with some images to download.
These celebrations go over a few weeks between Spirit's and Opportunity's landing dates. So let's pass on our thoughts and congratulations through this thread. Here is a desktop logo I'd like to share... plus posters and more on my blog. Stuart Atkinson has also prepared another of his brilliant poems (which I've included on the poster design). It is my honor to dedicate these images to the men and women on the Rover teams who have worked so hard to continue operating these amazing explorers on the surface of that distant red world. Astro0 Edit: I received a request for an additional desktop based on one of the posters. It's on the blog... |
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Jan 4 2009, 03:46 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Beautiful picture, Astro0, and beautiful words, Stu!!!
All I can add is my heartfelt thanks and congratulations to the men & women of the MER project, a very few of whom I've had the distinct pleasure of meeting. Your unprecedented achievements make all of us proud to be human. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jan 4 2009, 03:48 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1592 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
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Jan 4 2009, 05:15 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107 |
Scott Maxwell has started a blog about the early phases of the mission. It will be great to follow
http://marsandme.blogspot.com/ -------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
- Steven Squyres |
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Jan 4 2009, 06:04 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 21 Joined: 15-December 08 Member No.: 4509 |
Thanks for the head-ups dot.dk, it looks like it's going to be a pretty exciting blog to follow!
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Jan 4 2009, 06:38 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Anything that includes a "liquid hot magma" reference is fine by me. I thought only my husband would care about that reference. And I'm already hooked on Scott's blog. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jan 4 2009, 07:08 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 115 Joined: 8-January 05 From: Austin | Texas Member No.: 138 |
Simply amazing -- never in my wildest dreams did I think the rovers would hang on this long and remain so productive.
Onward we travel... |
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Jan 4 2009, 08:36 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Oh my gosh. I'm becoming exhiliarausted as I try to digest the information in this thread.
Emily: Everything you write is pretty darn good, but that Spirit mission summary was truly outstanding. If scientific journals allowed that style, they'd be a lot more fun to read. Excellent summary! To celebrate the milestone, I've cut together a selection of some of the more amusing moments during the early press briefings: Del Palmer: That was most entertaining. I am going to have to listen to it several times to absorb the full content.http://www.speedyshare.com/556118174.html As has been done previously with Mars Rover anniversaries, let me mark our celebrations with some images to download. ... I'm not a design expert, but that looks like a really nice logo to me.... Your unprecedented achievements make all of us proud to be human. nprev: I couldn't think of any better words than those to express my feelings tonight. Thanks for summing it up.I can't wait to see where these rovers will take us from here. -------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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