One Martian Year? Aka Mer To December Options

[SFJCody]

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm05/?pageRequ...tail&sessid=242

[elakdawalla]

One Martian year is DEFINITELY an event to celebrate (much more appropriate than celebrating one Earth year, I think!). So -- does anybody have any great ideas for how it should be celebrated?

Emily

[dilo]

A convention/party for all people partecipating to the Forum?

[dvandorn]

A get-together would be marvelous -- but since we're scattered all across the planet, it's probably not very practical.

-the other Doug

[mars loon]

One excellent way to celebrate and get together, is to come to Princeton NJ for a lecture I have arranged by the RAT designer, Dr Stephen Gorevan, on Sep 13, 2005 at 8 PM

For more info please check this topic :

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1380

and this website:

http://www.princetonastronomy.org/

his outstanding mission contributions are highlighted in Steve Squyres new book:

"Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Exploration of the Red Planet"

All forum members and friends are welcome to this free lecture at Princeton University

Ken

Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton (AAAP)

[CosmicRocker]

Can you imagine what would have been missed without the RAT? I'd love to attend that. The MER session at the December AGU meeting in SF sounds really awesome, too. I doubt I could make it to either one.

I hadn't seen it mentioned elsewhere, but Sol 600 has just come and gone for Spirit. I think there are decent odds it will see Sol 1K.

[Reckless]

A get-together would be marvelous -- but since we're scattered all across the planet, it's probably not very practical.

-the other Doug

Yes, a get-together would be good. One way to compensate for our differing abilities to attend would be to plan it well in advance. I'm sure quite a few of us could book a 'holiday' a couple of months in advance, so that we could get to a chosen location.
Our interest in unmanned spaceflight, or even these two rovers isn't going to wane over a period of a few months.
If it's advertised here and has a speaker or two I'm game.

Roy F

[djellison]

I think the thing to do would be to wait for MER mission end (a tragic thing to wait for, I know ) and then schedule something 1 yr in advance - so everyone can plan for it, save up for it etc etc. Get some good speakers in, try and tie it in to the w'end before a big conference so the people will be around.

Doug

[mars loon]

Its a great idea to have a wrap-up conference. But too tragic to even contemplate the end.

So in the meantime ......

Steve Gorevan gave an excellent presentation in Princeton (see this thread).
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1385

And, he generously loaned me a full scale model of the RAT and RAT hole (see pictures posted by Airbag) which I'll show at my rover lecture/display at The Franklin Institute Science Museum on Sat Oct 1 as part of "World Space Day". please feel free to stop by:
http://www.fi.edu/

and view panoramas, etc. from various forum members including jvandriel, nico, tman, ustrax and doug. excellent work all around

ken