Spirit - Sol2000, Congratulations to the MER Teams |
Spirit - Sol2000, Congratulations to the MER Teams |
Aug 18 2009, 01:01 PM
Post
#1
|
||||||
Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
As we have become accustomed to here on UMSF, the Rovers have reached another incredible milestone.
Today (tosol), the Mars Exploration Rover 'Spirit' has been operating on the red planet for 2000 Sols. To celebrate, here are a few logos, desktops and a poster for you to download and enjoy. The poster features another brilliant work of prose from our UMSF 'Poet Dude' Stuart Atkinson and a big credit to James Canvin for the Calypso Pan (with some Astro0 enhancements ). You guys rock! Poster: There's also a full-size 4.5mb version of the poster over at my blog. Plus a 16.2mb version to download for the brave. Desktops: Logos: |
|||||
|
||||||
Aug 18 2009, 01:20 PM
Post
#2
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 754 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 1700 |
Looks great - you can make celebratory New Year's-style glasses out of those
Congrats to the MER team! |
|
|
Aug 18 2009, 01:26 PM
Post
#3
|
|
Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
I also wanted to take this opportunity (no pun intended) to congratulate once again, everyone who works so hard on the Mars Rover mission.
The team currently working tirelessly on the effort to FREE SPIRIT and the Opportunity mission planners examing every exquisite detail of the Block Island meteorite. The science teams studying the soils of Troy, the imaging teams taking stunning panoramas and the drivers and engineers who keep these vehicles exploring. To all of you - THANKS! None of us five and half years ago could have imagined that these two astounding vehicles would still be exploring the red planet after 2000 Sols. What a ride! Over those years, many of you on the Rover team have become valued contributors to UMSF as well as good friends. You have lectured, blogged and twittered (tweeted) and emailed and given all of us an amazing insight into your mission. Most incredible of all is that you have let UMSF'ers contribute to the Rover adventure in a variety of ways. Yes, at times we have been nagging 'backseat drivers', but you know it's all been done with good intentions. To Steve Squyres, let me say a special thanks... Your dream to explore a distant world, born from an afternoon of looking over the dusty prints of Mars images from earlier missions, has, so many years later, not only changed your life but totally transformed ours Also, your vision and that of Jim Bell and others, to take the unprecedented step to share Spirit & Opportunity's images as they arrive on Earth, was to say the least an enormous leap of faith. Trusting the public to take those images and hope they would create and share those images for education, outreach and just pure enjoyment. I know that it has affected my life and the life, nights and days of everyone on UMSF. Enjoy tosol and may there be many more to come. THANK YOU. Astro0 |
|
|
Aug 18 2009, 01:43 PM
Post
#4
|
|
Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
It's really been 5.5 years ?
|
|
|
Aug 18 2009, 01:43 PM
Post
#5
|
|
Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
I know that he would do it eventually, but I thought it worth posting Stu's poem which features on the poster. Enjoy
2K This morning, yawning as I woke From another Troy-trapped night I watched Sol rise for the 2000th time And wondered: “Was it all a dream?” Did I really climb the scree-streaked Side of Husband Hill? Did one night I thrill To the sight of shooting stars and two Silvery moons fleeing across the sky? Did I Drag my ruined wheel for mile after endless mile, Ploughing a ragged furrow through Barsoom’s Cinnamon-dusted crust before Doom Caught up with me and left me stranded Here, impatient in this pit of ancient sand? When I arrived, falling out of the salmon- Hued sky, trailing a flapping banner of flame And fury, a backshelled-Beowulf, none on Earth Thought I Would survive even a hundred nights - Yet, here I am, alive, after two thousand! True, I cannot move, and my horizon has Not changed for what seems like an eternity But I can still see, and there is beauty in every Rock, and stone, sliver, slice and shelf of shale Around me. And if I am fated to stand At this wind-whipped, stony place, statue- Still, until only ghostly traces of my graceless Lines remain then so be it; I will not rage Against the end of my days, I have seen More wonders than I dared dream I would, And I have always known that every turn Of my wheels was carrying me closer to The End. They will send others after me – Bigger, bolder, more capable machines – But I will always be The First, The one that faced and overcame the worst That Mars could do and made the old World New again for millions watching Back on Earth. That was my worth – the rebirth Of the Red Planet in the minds of restless men. I’ll be forgotten, that is the way of things, but when, One day, I’m found, and the so-long silent hills Of Gusev ring to the sound of celebratory “She’s here!” Cheers, they’ll speak my name again..! © Stuart Atkinson 2009 |
|
|
Aug 18 2009, 02:25 PM
Post
#6
|
|
The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Wow... excellent work on the banner, logos and poster Astro0, just superb! Honoured to be a part of the Sol2000 celebrations!
-------------------- |
|
|
Aug 18 2009, 04:18 PM
Post
#7
|
|
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 31-August 07 From: College Station, TX Member No.: 3568 |
Yay! Here's to 2000 more sols!
|
|
|
Aug 18 2009, 04:22 PM
Post
#8
|
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
I couldn't believe it's true… The Sol TWO-THOUSAND. A sol beyond the most crazy dream…
But, we are in! I'm joining Astro0 to thanks for all of you to! This is for me the most incredible mission I ever seen on Mars. And I know that Spirit can continue to amaze us. Excellent pictures, posters and logo Astro0, and with a very good poem of Stu which gives me shivers. PS : this event was for me the occasion to change the header of my website. -------------------- |
|
|
Aug 18 2009, 05:16 PM
Post
#9
|
||
The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Wow... look what's on the big screens at JPL as they start their Sol 2000 celebrations!
Your poster looks GREAT Astro0, and your panorama is as good as anything on those walls James! ( Still find it hard to believe I actually stood in that room, beside that model, with Sharon, Scott and Steve Squyres... ) -------------------- |
|
|
||
Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Aug 18 2009, 05:17 PM
Post
#10
|
Guests |
This is a significant milestone! Only Viking 1 has lived more than 2000 sols!
|
|
|
Aug 18 2009, 05:53 PM
Post
#11
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 21-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 721 |
This morning, yawning as I woke From another Troy-trapped night I watched Sol rise for the 2000th time Well, technically, wouldn't it be for the 1999th time? I mean, if Sol 1 is landing day and the sun is already up, she wouldn't watch her first sunrise until Sol 2, right? |
|
|
Aug 18 2009, 06:17 PM
Post
#12
|
|
The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Technically you're right, but it was written to be emotional, not scientifically or chronologically accurate.
Partypooper. -------------------- |
|
|
Aug 18 2009, 07:35 PM
Post
#13
|
|
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
|
|
|
Aug 18 2009, 09:06 PM
Post
#14
|
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1420 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
TECHNICALLY the coast phase of the launch resulted in one sunrise - making 2000. Ah but did the rover actually see it? All locked up within its aeroshell? Sorry. -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
|
|
|
Aug 18 2009, 09:52 PM
Post
#15
|
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
This is a significant milestone! Only Viking 1 has lived more than 2000 sols! Spirit will do better than Viking 1 on April 28th 2010. We'll be at VB by then -------------------- |
|
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 27th April 2024 - 12:45 AM |
RULES AND GUIDELINES Please read the Forum Rules and Guidelines before posting. IMAGE COPYRIGHT |
OPINIONS AND MODERATION Opinions expressed on UnmannedSpaceflight.com are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of UnmannedSpaceflight.com or The Planetary Society. The all-volunteer UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderation team is wholly independent of The Planetary Society. The Planetary Society has no influence over decisions made by the UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderators. |
SUPPORT THE FORUM Unmannedspaceflight.com is funded by the Planetary Society. Please consider supporting our work and many other projects by donating to the Society or becoming a member. |