Which gives a mossbauer intergration, if it were deployed for all three weeks (which it hasn't been) about 1/2 as strong as one done in 8 hours on Sol 1.

The old girl has to take her time, unfortunately.

I did it last year

And, err, the year before that

You are. There is simply not the money to do what you talk about. You also talk about the space shuttle - that is a banned subject on this forum.

By contribution, by the way - I meant academic / intellectual etc

LOL - well, I'm not walking to Berlin

D

Call for papers is out - the Outreach session is, as ever, inviting

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPS...ionprogramme/OA

Any other UMSF'ers think they can make a contribution?

Doug

Particularly like that bit

New thread to move Glens posts in to.

And Glen - you should just 'edit' your first post, rather than replying to it to make a correction.

$@&*


Keep an eye on http://www.msss.com/msss_images/latest_weather.html

A couple of fairy crude anims of recent driving (one large, one small)

DVD is on its way- once I've got it - I'll get it uploaded

Sorry Geert - I'm with James. Your analysis doesn't achieve anything when compared to ground-truth.

Doug

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor

What isn't funny - is your full inline quote. I've cleared it up for you.

Just look at Meridiani and Gusev. There's no way that Spirit was ever going to match one hard days drive across to Endurance.

HD!! You'll be able to see the beads of sweat when I was waiting for the slides to go catastrophically wrong

If I get a copy, I'll get it online in some way - Vimeo, Youtube etc.

Want to read it - get the magazine. That's sort of the point. Sorry Phil.

Paolo's words echo my thoughts very well.

Given that - I'm going to close this thread.

I go away for 5 minutes, and this thread happens.

LOTS of posts deleted. I will just lock this thread if you can't behave.

People moaning about what is or isn't allowed on the board, by degrading the entire place with a thread like this.

Maybe I just have to turn UMSF off when I'm away from a keyboard for more than a day.

Seriously, people. Have some common sense.

Just guessing the theory behind the practice - a long hard drive will push all the gear lubricant around, squeeze it out from where it's needed. Give it a couple of days rest and it can 'settle' back into the right place, thus giving better lubrication next time around. I'd imagine running gearbox heaters for a while would help speed up this process a little.

Planning 'rest' days in advance may infact mean that the impact of the shift of Mars Odyssey to an earlier orbit can be reduced ( or the application of rest sols intelligently, combined with the Odyssey shift, can help each minimise the impact of the other ) by giving us pseudo-restrictied sols that can have post-drive imaging done post-Odyssey - which can push the time out on driving a little further into the afternoon.

All guesswork from a back-seat driver.

Hopefully they will be able to find somewhere like they did with WH3 - somewhere you can drive to, then drive 'off' to get a slope.

D

I assume by the scale of it's influence on the parent star.

Doug

I've seen them plenty of times in the past, yes.

Changed the topic title from Mars Hill. The 'Mars Hill' is something specific, in Death Valley.

Taken before the drive, it wouldn't have had the pretty tracks in it. I wonder if it was one of those 'happy accidents' like the Aviation Week Navcam Mosaic

Doug

It doesn't represent anything.

From the HiRISE FAQ - http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/faq/

"What do RED, BG, and IR mean?
These are shorthand titles for the different types of CCDs HiRISE has. The HiRISE camera has three different color filtered CCDs: red ("RED"), blue-green ("BG"), and near-infrared ("IR"). The wavelengths of these filters are as follows: RED: 570-830 nanometers BG: <580 nanometers IR: >790 nanometers


What are the BG and IR EDRs, and How are They Different from RED?
There are ten RED CCDs, two BG CCDs, and two IR CCDs. Combining the images taken by the three different color filters allows us to create "false" color images. The BG and IR CCDs are aligned with the center two RED CCDs, providing a two-CCD-wide color swath. This means that the images captured in the BG and IR products are aligned with the images captured in the RED4 and RED5 CCDs.


What does “false color” Mean?
"False" color means that the color you see in HiRISE images is not the "true" color human eyes would see on Mars. This is because the HiRISE camera views Mars in a different part of the spectrum than human eyes do. Nevertheless, false color imagery is extremely valuable because it illuminates the distinction between different materials and textures."