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Very much like ye-olde Erebus pan from back in the day  |
| Forum: Opportunity · Post Preview: #132028 · Replies: 84 · Views: 61709 |
| Posted on: Dec 2 2008, 07:53 PM | |
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QUOTE (RoverDriver @ Dec 2 2008, 05:21 PM)  This discussion is pretty fascinating to me. Just as you guys are curious about the day to day operations on the rovers, I'm curious about what's behind the UMSF pages I see every day. You show me yours, I'll show you mine  In March |
| Forum: Forum Management Topics · Post Preview: #132021 · Replies: 113 · Views: 342280 |
| Posted on: Dec 2 2008, 04:18 PM | |
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With the upgrade to Invision 3, you will have to say good bye to the legacy skin I'm afraid - it just makes no sense to spend the time to make it work. |
| Forum: Forum News · Post Preview: #132001 · Replies: 199 · Views: 445799 |
| Posted on: Dec 2 2008, 03:58 PM | |
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This marks the first time that communications have ended with a successful lander since the demise of Pathfinder, 10 years ago. Astonishing. |
| Forum: Phoenix · Post Preview: #131999 · Replies: 159 · Views: 305216 |
| Posted on: Dec 2 2008, 01:51 PM | |
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From Mini-TES - not the solar panels. Mini-TES has a mirror at the top of the mast, which is caked in dust - they will shake it in an attempt to get rid of some of the dust. Doug |
| Forum: Opportunity · Post Preview: #131986 · Replies: 84 · Views: 61709 |
| Posted on: Dec 2 2008, 12:20 PM | |
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QUOTE (Oersted @ Dec 2 2008, 12:08 PM) a default MT or Wordpress template signals a lack of care or attention on the part of the blog's owner, leading readers to think they can get away with something. We're about a nanometer from a default invision board skin here - but I think it has the right sort of tone Moderation is not easy - you try to draw lines, but it's not a black and white situation - it may seem arbitrary to some, but here, at least, it works in the long term. Set the tone and the guidelines firmly, at all times, and it can work. BAUT manages to tread a very interesting line between what UMSF is like, and the Mars Rover Blog. I've spent 10 years in and around forums, and you can tell the troublemakers a long long way off usually. It's not especially pleasant watching a ticking time-bomb posting on a board, when you know you'll be hitting the ban button before too long, there's an inevitability about it, especially when they try to argue with the moderation team - that's always a terminal sign. It's a fascinating ecosystem all of its own. |
| Forum: Forum Management Topics · Post Preview: #131981 · Replies: 113 · Views: 342280 |
| Posted on: Dec 2 2008, 12:33 AM | |
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Leicester must be cursed. No ISS/STS flyovers AT ALL during the mission because of cloud. No Venus occultation because of....you guessed it... |
| Forum: Chit Chat · Post Preview: #131962 · Replies: 25 · Views: 16264 |
| Posted on: Dec 1 2008, 08:03 PM | |
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What do you want, a medal for complaining about something which 5 seconds with google shows to be totally untrue? |
| Forum: STEREO & SOHO · Post Preview: #131931 · Replies: 120 · Views: 537108 |
| Posted on: Nov 30 2008, 11:32 PM | |
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It's the database of MER images maintained at Cornell. |
| Forum: Opportunity · Post Preview: #131881 · Replies: 84 · Views: 61709 |
| Posted on: Nov 30 2008, 11:29 PM | |
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FYI - still working from the donations pot - the server is now paid for until the end of June '09. |
| Forum: Forum Management Topics · Post Preview: #131880 · Replies: 98 · Views: 335158 |
| Posted on: Nov 30 2008, 06:05 PM | |
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| Forum: STEREO & SOHO · Post Preview: #131864 · Replies: 120 · Views: 537108 |
| Posted on: Nov 30 2008, 03:10 PM | |
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It's all Astro0's doing - suddenly my inbox will have a pertinent, stylish logo in it :0 |
| Forum: Forum News · Post Preview: #131860 · Replies: 199 · Views: 445799 |
| Posted on: Nov 30 2008, 02:31 PM | |
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Kudos to Astro0 who has been my banner-logo guru for a long time - we've got a conjunction special for the next couple of weeks |
| Forum: Forum News · Post Preview: #131857 · Replies: 199 · Views: 445799 |
| Posted on: Nov 29 2008, 10:50 PM | |
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I think it's fair to say that the Indian authorities and the Indian press have far far bigger issues at the moment. Politics are totally banned from UMSF, so discussion of that subject is not allowed. Patience is called for. Once again, however, I find myself wondering why people post here asking when people who have nothing to do with the forum will release something. |
| Forum: Lunar Exploration · Post Preview: #131838 · Replies: 505 · Views: 512128 |
| Posted on: Nov 29 2008, 06:51 PM | |
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The clouds were lovely, as ever. |
| Forum: Chit Chat · Post Preview: #131827 · Replies: 25 · Views: 17123 |
| Posted on: Nov 29 2008, 05:22 PM | |
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The 14 sols is simply what's available on the PCDB at the moment. There may be a longer plan - I don't know - we've been told elsewhere how long conjunction will actually last. Doug |
| Forum: Opportunity · Post Preview: #131820 · Replies: 84 · Views: 61709 |
| Posted on: Nov 29 2008, 04:40 PM | |
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I rang Stu during one ISS pass a year or so ago, and it was amazing despite the fact that we're only 100-150 miles apart, it was in a dramatically different part of the sky - put the proximity into context a little. Doug |
| Forum: Chit Chat · Post Preview: #131813 · Replies: 25 · Views: 17123 |
| Posted on: Nov 29 2008, 04:22 PM | |
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Complete cloud cover - has been for several days. Missed chance to see them yesterday as a result - not a chance tonight either  |
| Forum: Chit Chat · Post Preview: #131809 · Replies: 25 · Views: 17123 |
| Posted on: Nov 29 2008, 12:56 PM | |
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CODE 4. What EDRs did we request? Expected EDRs by sequence number and image type: Sol Seq.Ver ETH ESF EDN EFF ERP Tot Description ----- -------- --- --- --- --- --- ---- ----------- 01724 p1550.01 2 0 1 0 0 3 navcam_tau 01724 p1588.03 6 0 6 0 0 12 navcam_cloud_movie_right_eye_pri_57 01724 p2600.12 2 2 0 0 2 6 pancam_tau 01725 p0060.02 40 40 0 0 0 80 photon_transfer_left_navcam 01725 p2601.03 4 2 0 0 2 8 pancam_tau_L78R48 01726 p1588.03 6 0 6 0 0 12 navcam_cloud_movie_right_eye_pri_57 01727 p0061.01 40 40 0 0 0 80 photon_transfer_right_navcam 01728 p0064.01 40 40 0 0 0 80 photon_transfer_left_front_hazcam 01728 p1588.03 6 0 6 0 0 12 navcam_cloud_movie_right_eye_pri_57 01729 p0065.01 40 40 0 0 0 80 photon_transfer_right_front_hazcam 01730 p0066.01 40 40 0 0 0 80 photon_transfer_left_rear_hazcam 01730 p1588.03 6 0 6 0 0 12 navcam_cloud_movie_right_eye_pri_57 01731 p0067.01 40 40 0 0 0 80 photon_transfer_right_rear_hazcam 01732 p0068.02 40 40 0 0 0 80 photon_transfer_mi 01732 p1588.03 6 0 6 0 0 12 navcam_cloud_movie_right_eye_pri_57 01733 p0062.01 40 40 0 0 0 80 photon_transfer_left_pancam 01734 p0063.01 40 40 0 0 0 80 photon_transfer_right_pancam 01734 p1588.03 6 0 6 0 0 12 navcam_cloud_movie_right_eye_pri_57 01736 p1588.03 6 0 6 0 0 12 navcam_cloud_movie_right_eye_pri_57 01738 p1588.03 6 0 6 0 0 12 navcam_cloud_movie_right_eye_pri_57 01740 p1588.03 6 0 6 0 0 12 navcam_cloud_movie_right_eye_pri_57 Total 422 364 55 0 4 845 Looks like a busy time - the Photon Transfer sequences are interesting, I'll ask some Q's as to what that's about. With a healthy rover, Conjunction must be frustrating. Safe, low data volume, but time consuming sequences are all good Doug |
| Forum: Opportunity · Post Preview: #131802 · Replies: 84 · Views: 61709 |
| Posted on: Nov 28 2008, 04:09 PM | |
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QUOTE (IM4 @ Nov 28 2008, 04:02 PM) On 12-13th orbit Juno will intersect Jupiter's equatorial plane somewhere near the Callisto orbit, And will Callisto be anywhere near Juno at that time? An orbit crossing doesn't mean a close encounter. |
| Forum: Juno · Post Preview: #131763 · Replies: 597 · Views: 607347 |
| Posted on: Nov 28 2008, 01:14 PM | |
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I can't imagine it being significantly different in hardness to any of the other rocks we've seen at Eagle, Endurance or Victoria - and it was remarked just how soft those were given the easy-time that the RAT had chomping into them. |
| Forum: Opportunity · Post Preview: #131758 · Replies: 303 · Views: 165806 |
| Posted on: Nov 27 2008, 12:18 AM | |
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CODE Santorini: Full frame and downsampled: Number Number Number on Ground Fraction Sol Seq.Ver Requested Taken (full) Downlinked Description ----- ------- --------- ------ --------- ---------- ----------- 01716 p2280.06 63 63 63 1 pancam_santorini_pan_pt1_L257 01717 p2281.06 69 69 8 0.11 pancam_santorini_pan_pt2_L257 01718 p2282.06 69 69 0 0 pancam_santorini_pan_pt3_L257 01719 p2283.06 66 66 0 0 pancam_santorini_pan_pt4_L257 Total 267 267 71 0.26 It's become a colour panorama - with I think 7x3 frames per part. |
| Forum: Opportunity · Post Preview: #131715 · Replies: 303 · Views: 165806 |
| Posted on: Nov 26 2008, 02:42 PM | |
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Stu's title has been appropriately altered |
| Forum: Chit Chat · Post Preview: #131691 · Replies: 43 · Views: 28340 |
| Posted on: Nov 26 2008, 08:29 AM | |
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Oh - it'll be back out of the aeroshell before too long, as it's got to have more instruments bolted on, more testing done on it etc etc. I think this was more a fit-test and I'd heard rumours of thermal/vac testing of the whole stack as you see it in those pictures as well. Doug |
| Forum: Chit Chat · Post Preview: #131678 · Replies: 43 · Views: 28340 |
| Posted on: Nov 26 2008, 08:27 AM | |
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Yeah - they were doing so much stuff on top of Husband HIll they did actually turn it off in the afternoons. |
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