It's from the HRSCView website - from MEX HRSC data. Honestly, the data really isn't that good.

DOug

Planetary Radio with.... ME (And Veronica)
http://planetary.org/radio/show/00000308/

Doing a tiny interview with Veronica was actually my highlight of the week. I think I might do things more that way in the future.

This : http://www.uniscience.tv/index.html?ac=1222724959 : was a really great project by Europlanet. Look for 'Pensive Doug' and 'Doug hanging around behind Tom Spilker waiting for the camera to go away' (http://www.uniscience.tv/monday1.html) in some of the videos

Oh - and I have three words for you...

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Doug

I would say at the moment we're on restricted sols.

Doug

I don't think this was an example of the drunken sailor walk - but that's what they called it when the rover stopped quite regularly to give autonav / visidom something to see.

Doug

Drunken sailor walk

I don't think the rover motors would overheat. With 900+Whrs during high summer, the WEB may get to an overheating situation ( as happened at the summit of Husband Hill briefly ) - but the rover motors are so exposed that I find it hard to believe they could get warm to the point of being worrying.

Doug

Obvious indeed. What is also obvious is that it's in breach of forum rules.

Please read http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...;showtopic=5444
Specifically

"The hubble servicing mission is off topic"

Thus, topic closed, several posts deleted.

They took that quote off my slides from the EPSC Outreach session.

I'll give you the full quotes from Steve and Jim...

"It is exactly so people could do what you're doing - follow along, share the ride, enjoy the adventure at whatever level you wanted to whether it's click and look at the pictures or go off and try to do something of substance with them.  To have seen it work out the way it has - I'm just thrilled." - SS

"Frequently I'll get up in the morning and the first place I go is Unmannedspaceflight because I know I'm going to get the mosaics there rather than just raw images if I go through all the firewalls to the JPL website because nobody in Pasadena's even woken up yet.  I did it this morning to see how our drive went." - SS

"Among your troops, I am convinced, are a large number of my future colleagues--people who will make future planetary science discoveries, lead future instrument and mission teams......I want us to do everything we can, as professionals, to nurture those interests and to help reel in others (of any age!) who are hooked by this stuff as well." - JB.


Doug

"How far can we go?" not "Can we go more than 220m?"

Doug

Changed the name of this thread to reflect what it's really about

Ahhh ( going onto guess mode )

Driving limited perhaps by time rather than power - so if you forgo the imaging at the end of the drive before stopping for the PM UHF pass, you can get more drive time into the schedule.

Do this when on restricted sols and you can pre-estimate Sol N+2's drive from engineering and HiRISE - and give it a go/no go when you get the post drive imaging on Sol N+1

Just guessing

Doug

That's going to be the OFB surely?

Yup - it's very VERY good - I actually met up with Andy Chaikin in June to have a chat about it ( but couldn't say anything until it was released ) hopefully there will be an interview on Planetary Radio in the not too distant future!

Doug

Not surprising - after all, it's how we got our moon!

Doug

There is no spare MER. MER was not cheap. There is nothing to launch it on. And given that money problems already exist in the Mars program - what, exactly, do you want to use to buy it all?


Doug

Emily was kind enough to be my copy-editor, picture-editor, arbitrator of facts - she dropped that image in

Want to get personal - take it elsewhere. First and final warning for all. No debate.

One thing I would say - is that 500 days of driving, with 1 meg route maps every day - is half a gigabyte of forum attachments.

I really don't think that a new attachment ever single day is the best way to do this. I'm not turning up the maximum attachment size - sorry - I have to back this forum up - so every single attachment everyone has ever downloaded - I have to download it on a regular basis to ensure a full, re-installable backup of the forum.

FWIW - I really don't think we need a context map every time. It's superfluous. Maybe one every month or something, or one each time the background map moves?

I don't think we need the current map to be 2k x 4k. 2k x 2k would be fine - and significantly smaller on file size.

"at anytime we could need a path change"

Which is why we need to try and get some sort of survey done before we leave the Victoria Annulus

1kg, even picked arbitrarily, is a good figure as it puts it into the same sort of project scope as a cube-sat, which many universities can finance and fly themselves. Big enough to work, small enough not to be a burden on the lander.

Doug

Somehow, I ended up giving my talk twice. (it got moved, and I think some people arrived at it's orig. time to see it, so I was asked to do it again )

It went down fairly well - and maybe it's just me, but Lebreton and Foing seemed far more positive this year than last year.

For the laypeople among us (that's me) - is that sort of pattern essentially why dunes disappear when I've zoomed out to a certain point.

So - 100% - the flat parts look flat, everything else looks lumpy
Zoom out a bit - maybe 25% - the smaller, navigable dunes vanish, but the bigger scarier dunes are still obvious
Zoom out to 6.25% and it's almost all smooth

Doug

The Lazarus mode has been discussed for a long time. I don't think anyone is expecting it to realistically come into play, but it's just common sense to put the code in there to give the vehicle a chance were that situation to arise.

Doug

Give me questions to ask him - I may or may not make it to the poster session tomorrow (as it will be post-outreach-sessions and thus we'll be wanting to hit a restaurent ) but if I do - I'll ask him.

Doug

Phil already did that.

Well - shape from shading with ISIS would work to a degree, but to be honest, human judgement is probably best.

Doug