Sometimes, when I walk through the forest to go to my fine-arts school (yes, where I live, there is some trees), and I have named this way "path for Spirit" in remember it's glorious time while climb Husband Hill because it's full of various-sized cobbles and tilted. Some outcrops I have here (limestone) remember me some Oppy's outcrops.

Oh, and I can coming back from a trip without taken a full 360 color pan of the "landing site" .

Here, in the South west of France, we've been hitten this week-end by a big storm. Lot of trees down, still lot of people without electricity, telephone, etc.
and, true, I didn't have any news from Spirit (from Scott blog) ... on Sol 20 & 21
If THIS is not a sign of been a UMSFer...!!!

You know you're an UMSFer...

...if you log in frequently enough to see this on a regular basis. (weekends can be slow)

Aah - - but if you go in via the UMSF portal you don't have that problem! All of today's posts come up every time. Then, if there are no new ones, you can always read the old ones over again. Better still, you don't even have to log in first.

You know you're a UMSF'er.....

When you start seeing rovers everywhere!


I glanced over at my screen looking at our public car park at the Canberra DSN and did a double take at the shadow at the bottom left.
Anyone else spotted a rover where it shouldn't be?

PS: The shadow is a lamp post. But I had to look twice

well the shadow on the right look a bit like the Lunar Module (LM) of the Apollo missions. And the two dark spots above the "rover cam" could well be Pathfinder and a copy of it which the Martians have been trying to build.

EDIT: Astro0 ... how many years have you been working there by now? And it only just appeared?

Seven years at the Complex, but the lamp post was only put in last year. First time the shadows have fallen that way. It just caught my eye today.

was only put in last year. First time the shadows have fallen that way.
... then it's not a rover, its ... Phoenix!

A couple of years back, an invasive weed spread through my back lawn forming a circular pattern 10 feet wide that looked exactly like Erebus crater. I pondered getting on the roof for an overhead photo, but thought you would all run me out of this place if I posted it. Now I'm sorry I didn't capture it.

When Doug was visiting Elk Grove I took him past a raised corner lot that had been cut back for a street widening and it looks a lot like Home Plate, even at a similar scale. Doug agreed, even though it was now starting to be covered with weeds and grass.

You know you're a UMSFer when... you push a load of spluttering pigs out of the way to get to the computer?

Phil

You keep your computer with your pigs?

Maybe this should be in the "Revenge of the Mars Widows" thread.

"You keep your computer with your pigs?"

They're all on Facebook. Not to mention Trotter.

Phil

You know you're an UMSFer when, having never seen one before, you correctly identify a cantaloupe because of its resemblance to Triton....

You know you're an UMSFer when ... you live in a place like Mars (Sydney, Australia on 23Sep): http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/23/2693643.htm and http://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,23607,506...5007150,00.html