MER@5 Years, Your thoughts and congratulations to the MER teams |
MER@5 Years, Your thoughts and congratulations to the MER teams |
Jan 3 2009, 07:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Five Years of Spirit on Mars
I normally don't go re-posting the blogs that I know most of us here read regularly, but I have to point out what a wonderful job Emily did in digesting five years of Spirit's exploration into one commentary/column of under 1800 words. I can't wait to read Opportunity's story later this month. http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001796/ -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jan 10 2009, 05:54 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 28-August 07 From: San Francisco Member No.: 3511 |
I love this place too, thanks drivers; image whiz's; poets; bloggers et all... you just take me there...
-------------------- 'She drove until the wheels fell off...'
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Jan 10 2009, 10:43 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 237 Joined: 22-December 07 From: Alice Springs, N.T. Australia Member No.: 3989 |
I love this place too, thanks drivers; image whiz's; poets; bloggers et all... you just take me there... I wish UMSF had been allowed to be even more involved in this mission. Paolo Me too! Love it! It strikes a great balance between serious commentary/analysis, innovative ideas and just having fun. We need to keep giving maximum positive feedback to people like Steve Squyres and the MER team for their quick release of data and encouragement of 'ordinary' people like us to get involved. The more that such feedback can filter up the chain of command of NASA and related structures the sooner a degree involvement by groups like UMSF will be acknowledged as useful and later written into policy! That's why having Paolo post is not only enjoyable (who doesn't love the inside story!!!) but is beginning to open those doors. It's about testing limits and growing boundaries. What were boundaries become accepted norms! I find it fascinating how we might use the power of a vast number of minds through the internet to solve problems in completely novel ways and to get seemingly impossible things done....... seemingly impossible according to the old paradigms. In the next 20 years I could envisage experimental work and scientific ideas beginning to being shifted from 'static' scholarly journals into much more interactive fora where there are ongoing versions and levels of review - from peer review to general public review. NASA TV: "Passport To Mars - Bouncing To Mars Part 1 & 2": In connection with this, I thought Bouncing To Mars was very interesting indeed. Particularly in terms of mission team members comments and what they perceived the limits on frank reporting of problems and failures to be. Check out the old Singer sewing machines!! It's good that an organization like NASA can work with others to produce such films about itself. What I really love about science is exemplified by the comment .... "trying to understand what happened on Mars from a tiny bit of data" - sounds a bit like everyday life! Almost manageable!!! |
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