Hmm...

1) Lamb-Gorecki
2) Riot Act - California Soul
3) Coldplay - The scientist
4) Faure - Requiem
5) Zero 7 - Destiny
6) Dido - All You Want
7) Into the Red ( Nick Mason ) - Tyrrell 011 ( if someone made a recording of an FF1600 from the pitlane at Castle Combe, I'd have that instead)
8) Oasis - Champaigne Supernova
Book ) Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'Beyond the Limits' OR Bill Hartmann's Travellers Guide to Mars
Luxury ) This is a hard one. You know, I think I'd take Golf Clubs as well actually. Or perhaps my Camera.

Oh, of course, it'll be the same whenever I can arrange something like this -I'll let people know and ask for questions. It was very hard with the Steve Q'n'A as it clearly..well...talk about starting big with Interviewing people - short of Mike Griffin I could have picked bigger I just hope I did justice to everyone who had questions.

Doug

I'm still waiting for Erebus to be renamed to Albert, but hey

Doug

I dont know if there will be another one. Depends if I can get to the US or Steve visits the UK again I'd like to interview Jim Bell actually - and Jake Matijevic as well. At some point in the not TOO distant future, perhaps 18 months or so - Helen and I will make a visit to the US and hopefully we'll be able to drop in and visit some people who made this whole experience possible.

Doug

"Are there any people on it" is the most common question I get asked about just about any spacecraft.

Doug

HER ASBO, it's Emily


The three little chaps walking around Endurance (and I think they might indeed be a bit smaller than they should be ) - are from here....

http://www.marssociety.org/mdrs/fs03/0212/index.asp

The third astronuat along is actually the first astronaut, flipped around and shrunk a bit

It may be subtle and obscure, but there's a nod to the Ultreya phenomenon in there

Doug

This is the sort of thing I was thinking of, this one isnt actually to scale, I've not done the maths, but I'll calculate proper sizes and make sure things are to scale etc

Doug

'Meanwhile, on the other side of the forum...'



Doug

The photo didnt quite sit on the mosaic properly, something I'll have to work on for future composits, I think it might be noise, the CCD images are a little noisier than that photo was, so it doesnt seem to 'sit' properly on the background. A nice start and the colours fit quite well

Doug

That particular image is now an Aviation Week thing, it's not really ours anymore per-se.

I'm sure there's plenty of imagery around here that could suffice

Doug

I've been thinking about this, and putting, say, someone on the lip of Burns cliff, or stood inside Bonne Crater, or something like that would give some nice scale - I'll see what I can do, it's a cool idea.

Doug

That's the first time I've seen Erebus look like a crater

Great processing.

Doug

W.R.T. = with respect to

i.e. Ultreya doesnt look good w.r.t. driveability

Doug

Using the river analogy - it's the heaviest particles that drop first, lighter particles carry further, so perhaps heavier, more basaltic-sand-like particles get dropped in this area, whilst the lighter dust remains airborn?

Just guessing, but it would make sense. There are a couple of similarly colours patches elsewhere in the Columbia complex, and in the same sort of position w.r.t. peaks.

Doug

Oh - still some wind, but the reason the dust is there imho is because it is less windy than elsewhere on the hills - like silt on the apex of a river bend.

Doug

Ahh - Nico and I saw a presentation about that at the BAA conference this summer, there were some very good amateur observers there and they were amazed.

Doug

I would have thought that if it were THAT windy, it wouldnt have any dust left on it

If you look at all the DD tracks from orbit - the prevailing direction is SSE - and thus Ultreya is essentially the wind 'shadow' of Husband Hill.

Doug

Damn - I thought I was going to be fast on the ball with those mosaics!

They're only 7hrs 48 mins off the rover

Excellent view of Ultreya in the Navcam imagery incidentally.

Doug

Ahh - you see, now Emily's going "phew- got out of that one"



http://www.marsonearth.org/interactive/mul....science.1.html
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=6548


I think, going back thru several years of Haughton expeditions, there will be lots of images one could use to give a sense of scale to a few choice panorama's - I'll see what I can do over the next few days

Doug

I think we could see 100m+ drives on that stuff easily - if it were very very soft it wouldnt have big rocks sat on top of it It reminds me of the early terrain back by the lander. Obviously you wouldnt go for one of those sand-dune-dust-bar-type-features, but the rest of it looks great.

Doug

At least the GERB instrument on the first MSG ( made right here in Leicester ) can take up from ERB.

Is the sort of data that UARS was taking being filled in for by the A-Train?

Doug

Always sad to see a great spacecraft come to the end of it's life, but it's an opportunity to reflect on all that it has taught us.

Doug

Wooyay for the Birthday card, it gets more airtime

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/fligh...14-Jones-cc.mov

Doug

I suggested Romulus and Remus for the DS2 microprobes - but Scott and Amundsen were perfect names for them. I love the names of the Cluster sats as well, they're named after dances ( Rhumba, Samba, Tango and something...can't remember ) - perfect names as they orbit the earth in a ballet like formation.

I'm not a big fan of the really-bad-acronyn-that-sounds-like-something-interesting, like CONTOUR, MeSSEnGeR...NEAR wasnt so bad, but I'm glad that missions Stardust, Dawn, Kepler, Phoenix, Cassini etc ..they just have names.

I had a phase of making up my own missions in my mind when bored in lectures at university about 8 years ago and came up with some great acronym names. CRASH (Comet Rendezvous and Sample Handling), SLAM (SoLar Atomospheric Mission), FIESTA (Far Infrared Exoplanet Survey for Terrestrial Applications), LICE (Lunar ICe Explorer), MOUNTIE (Mars Orbiting Ultraviolet, Neutron, Themal and Infrared Explorer), and my favorite...MORONS (Mars Orbiting RadiatiOn and Neutron Spacecraft)

I'm just glad it was Galileo and not JESSIE (JupitEr System Science Investigation Explorer)

Doug