Press Conference for Victoria Crater? |
Press Conference for Victoria Crater? |
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Jul 31 2006, 11:29 PM
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We haven't had a press briefing or conference in months... anyone else think Opportunities eventual (hopefully) arrival and exporation at Victoria Crater deserves one? If oppy makes it ok, it would, in my opinion at least, make it one of the greatest achievements in the history of planetary exploration and certainly deserves some public/press recognition. Doug, maybe you could ask if the rover team are planning anything?
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Aug 3 2006, 04:39 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Google Trends will graph "interest" in a query of your choice. I ran a few based on Mars and the MERs, and all of them showed one major spike at the time they landed and almost nothing since then. In terms of whatever it is measuring, the landing seems to have solidly trumped everything since then. Yeah, I called up some of those up a while back and came to pretty much the same conculsion.Bingo - so no big wavey press conf. is going to change anything The empirical data convinces me that despite the technical successes of their difficult missions, NASA's PR department hasn't learned to take the ball and run with it. The public interest is there at the beginning, but they are clueless when it comes to sustaining the wonder.
Doug -------------------- ...Tom
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Aug 4 2006, 06:57 AM
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The public interest is there at the beginning, but they are clueless when it comes to sustaining the wonder. What would you have them do? They did very regular press confs, on a daily and almost daily basis for most of the primary mission...but public interest had dropped to near zero by that point anyway. Doug |
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Aug 4 2006, 12:57 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 115 Joined: 8-January 05 From: Austin | Texas Member No.: 138 |
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| | Simply put I would want the team to put together some spectacular images of the crater and have a press conference to discuss them -- I believe that is all we are getting at. Voyager can still grab international headlines as it makes it way through the heliopause so an impressive image of a large crater on Mars should do the same. I also think some of the thought process here in this thread is for Nasa in general to attempt a bit harder to sustain some of the initial interest in their projects generate. ---ups |
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Aug 4 2006, 01:04 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
^ Simply put I would want the team to put together some spectacular images of the crater and have a press conference to discuss them -- I believe that is all we are getting at. We will probably get that - that's the baseline..we had it on getting to Husband Hill for instance....I asked what MORE would you have them do. Doug |
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Aug 4 2006, 09:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 115 Joined: 8-January 05 From: Austin | Texas Member No.: 138 |
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Aug 4 2006, 09:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721 |
Well, Nasa could hire an ad agency to put out some clever jingle sung by super star rapper 50 Cent... Personally, I would go for a combination news conference/lingerie fashion show. They could call it.... Revealing Victoria's Secrets. I think that could work, don't you? Brian |
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Aug 4 2006, 10:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
I like it!
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