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: 14448 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 22 2005, 09:11 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Arhgh - those codes on the DVD's had Helen and I going nuts
You got a good deal mind you - as the Spirit one was imaged twice I think... Sol 2 - You got a REALLY sharp L4, highly compressed L5, a 2:1 downsampled L6, and a nice L1. If you make a colour image from the L456 - then overlay it onto the L1 - you get great results. Bog standard L456 http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...pir_dvd_456.jpg L456 as colour over L1 http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...r_dvd_456x1.jpg L456 and L1 stretched a bit - and multiplied http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...dvd_456x1xD.jpg One problem is that it's just short of being in focus - it's a bit too close to the pancam. However - sol 37 comes along and we get L24567R2 - all full res and with mild compression The 456 comes out as http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...r_dvd_2_456.jpg and an L2/R2 anaglyph http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...r_dvd_2_ana.jpg Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet Full sized L1 and L4, but this time downsized on both L5 and L6 L456 http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...opp_dvd_456.jpg L456 x 1 http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...p_dvd_456x1.jpg L456 x 1 with tweaking http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...dvd_456x1xD.jpg Sol 12 - Oppy got another shot http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im.../opp_dvd_12.jpg Sadly - in the part-taken L4,5,7 mosaic http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_im...nest_mosaic.jpg The DVD isnt there - it's off to one side. All this is on the Planetary Soc website - but it was fun to recreate it all myself as well - ahhh...sol's in single digits..those were the days That was a fun blast from the past. Doug |
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Aug 22 2005, 09:28 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 22 2005, 02:11 PM) Can you believe that before the operational rehearsals, Squyres was actually worried that the codes would not be legible -- that the Pancams couldn't resolve the detail? (Jim never doubted, of course.) --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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