Phil Stooke's Mars mission maps, Changes in the New Year |
Phil Stooke's Mars mission maps, Changes in the New Year |
Dec 17 2021, 08:15 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10256 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I want to look ahead to the new year and beyond, regarding Mars mission mapping on UMSF.
My book 'The International Atlas of Mars Exploration', vol. 2, covered events up to June 2014, coinciding with Opportunity sol 3700 and Curiosity sol 669, the end of its primary mission. Ever since then, for the last 7.5 years, I have been mapping activities on Mars for UMSF, but those maps were always intended for a 3rd volume of the series. You have been able to follow, sol by sol, the construction of the maps that will fill the atlas. That work will conclude at the end of this year. Then I begin a period of intense editing work to pull roughly 250 pages of text and 250 full page illustrations into publishable form. I hope you will understand that I cannot go on making new maps while also editing the book. So many things are happening on the Moon (my other love) and Mars that mapping has been a full time job, but now my efforts must be redirected. I will still be doing some things - I like making circular panoramas and will keep doing that as time permits, but making them for Perseverance is time-consuming and they might not happen with every drive unless I have access to a panorama from someone else. I will try to keep up with Zhurong whenever there is an update, but almost daily updates for Curiosity and Perseverance are no longer possible. I must give up Curiosity altogether, but I will follow Perseverance with less frequent updates. I will be following events on the Moon (Chang'e 4 and future landers) and when the Mars editing work concludes my focus will be mostly on the Moon. I hope someone else will be able to take on the role of Mars cartographer. We have had other contributors, and as a start someone could simply annotate the mission maps after each drive with names taken from status reports and other sources. I will be checking in every day, I just can't continue mapping as I have in the past. But I will see you on the Moon! Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Dec 17 2021, 02:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 717 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
Thanks for letting us know, Phil, and good luck with finishing your book. There will be collective withdrawal symptoms across the forum, as many of us have grown addicted to your always timely, accurate, and beautiful map updates. I hope someone can pick up the Martian reins, but you're a hard act to follow!
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Dec 17 2021, 04:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
Phil, what you've already given us freely is beyond value. I have to say that, while it's accurate to call it cartography, your drive maps and phil-o-vision images, among other postings, feel like something even better; they often feel, to an extent, like exploration – like being there. The experience is as close to John Carter of Mars as anyone has yet known. It's always appreciated.
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Dec 17 2021, 08:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 923 Joined: 10-November 15 Member No.: 7837 |
I will miss those map updates Phil! Good luck with the book.
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Dec 17 2021, 09:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Same here, I will miss them too. Tesheiner, can you come back like old times?
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Dec 18 2021, 12:08 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10256 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Thank you all!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Dec 18 2021, 01:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 246 Joined: 13-October 09 From: Olympus Mons Member No.: 4972 |
Would love to help but I am busy collecting maps of every body in the Solar System. I love seeing your map updates because it is fascinating seeing the long trips some of these rovers go on. Essentially, you are asking for someone to be your rover panorama mapping apprentice. I will miss the rolling updates from you.
-------------------- "Thats no moon... IT'S A TRAP!"
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Dec 18 2021, 01:27 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 992 Joined: 15-June 09 From: Lisbon, Portugal Member No.: 4824 |
Thank you very much Phil for all your contributions to UMSF. I will certainly miss your maps, which have greatly helped me, but I do understand. It is time consuming.
Best of luck for your book. Fernando |
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Dec 18 2021, 05:35 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1598 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Phil the white wizard is getting on the ship for Valinor or Victoria or wherever he's retiring to in the West, leaving us all behind in middle earth.
QUOTE The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away
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Dec 19 2021, 06:11 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Phil, your care, compilation, curation, and presentation of this scientifically and historically invaluable data is the gold standard, period. You've brilliantly performed a service that very few people could even attempt and given your work freely to us. We have been spoiled, honored, and humbled by your hard work and generosity.
Best of luck with your books, and thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 19 2021, 05:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
Phil Stooke,
Thank You for the incredible body of work that you gifted to us, in all its technical and artistic splendor. I eagerly await all your future Atlases. They occupy a special place in my humble library Good luck with all your pursuits. You are appreciated by a multitude of people. as you know ... the Solar System ain't gonna map itself! -------------------- CLA CLL
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Dec 21 2021, 03:53 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10256 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Thanks everyone. Not all those who wander are lost! Or are they? Anyhoo, I am not leaving, just cutting back on Mars stuff. But I really appreciate all your kind words.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jan 17 2022, 04:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
recovering enough from unexpected wrist surgery to get back to a keyboard .. have a 20 Sol backlog dust devils to check... see ya soon
(Tau, awesome work on the downhill DD!) -------------------- CLA CLL
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