Q & A With Steve Squyres, Coming in September |
Q & A With Steve Squyres, Coming in September |
Jul 27 2005, 11:46 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
As previously reported, there's a great lineup of speakers at the BAA out of London meeting on September 3rd - including MER Principle Investigator Steve Squyres.
Steve has kindly offered some of his time so that we can meet up and do a Q'n'A based on questions submitted by you lot. Obviously - there will be loads and loads of questions you want to ask and only so much time in which to ask them - however - I'll do what I can to pick as many of the best as I can squeeze in in the time available. There will be a write up here, obviously, and I will try and record it as an MP3 and post that here as well. Steve's book 'Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Exploration of the Red Planet' is published next week - and a signed copy will be winging its way to the person submitting the best question! * If you have questions you want me to pitch to Steve, then drop me an email to doug@rlproject.com with the subject SS Q&A As a heads up - please take note of the other speakers at the BAA meeting - and if you have specific questions you'd like asked of them - I'll do my best to try and get them in after their presentations at the meeting. The last two ( Profs Greeley and Muller ) are on the Sunday and the Friday respectively, but I will be trying to get down to those presentations as well - but no promises. -Prof. Carolyn Porco, Principal investigator, Cassini imaging system -Prof. John Zarnecki, Principal investigator, Huygens surface science -Prof. Mike A'Hearn, Principal Investigator, Deep Impact, -Prof. Ron Greeley, Scientist on several planetary missions, Chairman of NASA & NAS Mars exploration panel -Prof. Jan-Peter Muller, Scientist on Mars Express hi-resolution camera team, University College London. Doug * 'best' to be picked by SS and myself on the day |
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Aug 6 2005, 06:26 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Thanks for the link to that audio, odave. It was an interesting interview with SS, despite a few party-crashers and other clueless people that called in. They were quickly dispatched by the adept host. Too bad some of us didn't manage to call in. Fortunately, Doug has provided this access to Steve's ear. There are not likely to be any bad questions here.
I thought I had a fair chance with the questions I sent in, but there have been some really good questions proposed. I paticularly like the ones about alternate MER landing sites, but I can't help but think that deglr6328 trumped everyone with his question about Carl Sagan. I can't help but take a shot at an answer to SFJCody's alternate landing site question. Besides, it will give us something to discuss while we await Steve Squyres' answers to the questions Doug asks him. If I didn't have to worry about the survival of the mission during EDL, I'd toss a MER into the bottom of Valles Marineris. It seems that would be a pretty good place to find signs of water, or at least groundwater. There might even be some springs down there. -------------------- ...Tom
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Aug 8 2005, 01:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Aug 6 2005, 02:26 AM) I wanted to, but unfortunately I don't have a cell phone and the show was over by the time I got home It's just as well, though, since I would probably have gushed like a 13 year old girl meeting her favorite pop star I did come up with one more question for SS, but maybe y'all have the answer: * Is Sprit's RAT totally shot, or does it have a grind or two left in it that you're saving for a really interesting, high priority rock? -------------------- --O'Dave
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