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 30 2005, 12:50 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I doubt I'll have t'internet access whilst in Cambridge - I'm certainly not counting on it. The end result's going to be an MP3 of the q'n'a with Steve, and an article for Space Daily.
If I'm allowed, I'll record his (and everyone elses) talks at the conferences, but at lower quality ( Mini Disc recorder with a brilliant little microphone ) The names thing is something I did for Beagle 2 when I just had a little Beagle 2 Yahoo group. I did a Christmas Card the day before landing - and delivered it on Christmas eve....and we never heard from the lander again. So clearly, it was all my fault because I cursed the whole thing. Problem with some sort of pressie is that he's got to carry it all around with him, and back to the US on a plane. Dont worry - he knows about you lot and how greatful you are - one of the things I'm going to talk about is the paradigm shift created by putting the raw imagery out there daily, who thought of it, how it works, what it's achieved etc etc - BUT...if you want submit to a list, then I've made a new email address thankyousteve@gmail.com Put your real name, your forum name, and a single line of thanks - send it to that address , and I'll see if I can sort something out before heading off on Friday. No promises, but I'll see what I can do. Cut-off for that is mid-day Thursday GMT. (you've got 2 days ) Doug |
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