They're not resolveable at the res of the MEX camera.

Doug

Yup - I'm more an X-Plane and Orbiter man myself - but saw the addon at the Global FLyer website and reinstalled appropriately

I have the full UK VFR Scenery for FS2k4 and have succesfully landed a chopper on my house

Doug

He's within gliding distance now

This will be the view (if he had one ) looking over the S'brd tail at around 17:30GMT



Yup - thats the moon in the distance - almost like the moon setting over the earths horizon in A13 as an indicator of their entry angle


Doug

To be honest - it'd piss me off If I want to know the time on mars, I load up Mars24 Great though the Invision board is -it's cluttered and noisey enough already. It'd be breaking my own rule about excessive signatures ( I HATE signatures that go on and on about peoples PC specification WHY DO I CARE!! )



Hell - what next - BA Flight schedules from Heathrow to KSC in the menu bar

Doug

If it was a mound of any height - we WOULD have seen it by now

imho - it's a very very erroded crater, much more so than eagle/fram etc - i.e. pre hydrological activity - it'll just be exactly what it appears on the orbital images - a ring of exposed rock perhaps a few CM above the surrounding area with no inner 'dip' or dunes

Doug

Not easily Without just stealing the flash one at JPL's site.

Doug

He's just over half way

Doug

Perhaps we should start a thread and just submit questions to it - then if you can find someone appropriate Alan - I can string them together into a coherent set of questions that 'tell the story' fire them off in an email and then report back here?

Doug

Now leave the man alone so he can go and finish it before Jan '06

Doug

You should get the FS2k4 version and fly it yourself- I'm currently skirting around the southern edge of the Himalaya

Doug

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/apio/mars_materials2.htm

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/apio/pdf/mar...m_synthesis.pdf is a good one

What would appear to be the most obvious change to the current mars roadmap is pushing MSL back to '11 - but flying two - bring the '11 Scout forward to '09 and still fly the telecoms orbiter in '09

Benefits - more time to perfect or redesign the Skycrane, assured comms ability with Telecoms orbiter already in situ - and perhaps an chance to fly an MER copy as the '09 Scout instead as a literal 'scout' for the second MSL.

Obviously Bruce was at some interesting meetings on the same subject - and isnt saying mutch (yet ) but of the multiple roadmaps presented - that to me would be the obvious call

Doug

I've now done two MER talks - one to the University of Leicester Astro Soc, and last night I did one at the Northampton Natural History Society. It went brilliantly, the audience asked good questions, looked very cool with the glasses on - and awe struck without - I did about 45 mins on the MER's - and then Spirits history to date - then tea break - and about 40 minutes on Opportunity.

I'm doing a more technical talk in a couple of weeks again - at the Leic. Uni Astro Soc annual BBQ which should be cool - and that will form the basis of a more technical talk for the BAA Instruments and Imaging section

For UK residents - it's quite possible I'll be doing something at some future BAA meetings in London.

Any fees that I recieve ( none for the first one, but may well be some for the second ) go straight to Comic Relief

And I have to say - I have an absolute BLAST doing them!!

Doug

The descent camera will make a movie - and the mastcam can make movies as well

Doug

No one can take 27m/pixel images from their backyard - not even the Keck facility

Doug

No way is that the sun. The exposure required to see the stars that well would have totally bleached out the CCD if it was pointing at the sun

probably just a highly over exposed moon

Doug

14 Months of practice

Doug

It was Sol 106 I believe a 10 x 3 pancam frame



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Doug

I think the specific location of LLO essentially got moved to wherever they could sit for 10 days doing IDD work whilst doing a 360 Pancam mosaic of the surroundings

Doug

Typical - it's down most of the day - and the moment I post about - it springs back to life

Doug

I cant get anything of the analysts notebook or any other mer data sources at the moment

Any ideas?

Doug

No - I've made the same mistake - that's a large crater way out to the east somewhere. (notice the dunes running across the field of view - not in line with it )

Doug

Anyone seen a route map that shows the total driving route done within Endurance. I've seen one that shows about the first 60 sols, but nothing that shows the full 6 months worth

Doug

It's the one behind the rings. I missed it first time as well

Doug

It's a lovely view