Hello all,

It's fun to hear what everybody else is like so it's only fair that I keep the treadmill going.

I am 29, and I work in a neurology research lab. My focus is in bioinformatics where I get to investigate the role of genetic variation in human diseases.

<rant> You should know that there is a really great law called HIPAA (hippah) that is keeping your genome safe from the insurance companies. If you ever hear about a bill that proposes to weaken existing HIPAA protections please fight to defeat it! </rant>

Space rocks! Pictures of rocks fill up a lot of space on my hard drive. I started building mosaics and mosaic anaglyphs from the raw MER data and quickly got hooked. I feel fortunate to be among talented folks with similar interests, and I hope to learn a lot from the community.

Very cool. It's an Emily "The Genie" Lakdawalla sighting! <cozms> <-- big fan; politely wants your job

I am glad I did not post MMB to slashdot. I came real close...maybe I've finally learned some net manners. I've forgotten how I stumbled on this little secret, but I definitely had to dig around for a while.

Many thanks again to Michael for all your hard work.

If you're going to go for slashdot, just be prepared for a hefty bandwidth bill and warn your ISP that the horde is coming. Why not go gradual and try to get a mention from the planetary society (http://planetary.org/blog)? Emily Lakdawalla writes a widely read blog there, and has linked to good MER-related sites in the past. She seems to mostly deal directly with the project scientists, but maybe MMB would be an exception.

I love MMB. Thank you Michael. I just love it. Images straight from Mars through the rovers eyes to my desktop, and my tired little mouse doesn't even have to point or click or anything. Finally it can rest and watch Mars with me.

Michael, have you looked at using PanoTools in your code? It's an open source platform for panorama creation, and it can produce beautiful results: http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/index.html

I don't know if it would be compatible with your code, but it is open source, so I thought you might be interested. I managed to use it to build a couple of nice Mars panos: http://www.atgig.com/cozmsbrpng/index.html

They took me a while to assemble, but with all the information that is available from the rovers perhaps some of it could be automated. I know that much of the panorama creation done by the MER team is automated.

All the best to you!