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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Sep 1 2005, 11:02 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I wracked my brain trying to think of the right sort of token....none of the mosaics or panoramas that the MER team, or us lot have made are worth it really - he'll have seen them all.
Then I remembered two things. 1) SS is looking forward to MRO so he can see his rovers again. 2) He wants Bootprints in the wheeltracks at Eagle Crater ( read the book ) So I added together all the names I got - picked my favorite one-liner, but changed it a bit, and came out with this - which is printed as a 7 x 5 in a little frame There's also a matching, identical one, but it's the full resolution simulated imaged - like this - http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_images/purgatory.jpg and just Simulated view of.... at the top - so if he gets bored of the MRO simulated image, he can switch to the better view Doug |
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