Q & A With Steve Squyres, Coming in September Options

[djellison]

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

[djellison]

Really - you cant focus on the blue ones - your eye isnt clever enough to do 'different' focus on it because it's a different wavelength

Have all three lined up - the blue one just wont focus.

It's very odd - I read it on the internet ( so it must be true ) and had a try myself and it's actually true

Doug

[um3k]

Really - you cant focus on the blue ones - your eye isnt clever enough to do 'different' focus on it because it's a different wavelength

Ah, but I have manual focus.

[ljk4-1]

Squyres writes the book on Mars and the little rovers that could

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug05/....roving.lg.html

Aug. 23, 2005

By Lauren Gold
lg34@cornell.edu

ITHACA, N.Y. -- It has been an amazing mission from the beginning.
Getting two tremendously intricate machines funded, designed, built,
tested, approved, launched, landed safely on a planet millions of
miles from Earth and functioning nearly continuously for more than a
year and a half is an extraordinary feat.