10 Years - Remembering Spirit, The start of the celebrations |
10 Years - Remembering Spirit, The start of the celebrations |
Jan 4 2014, 05:32 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
10 years. 10 YEARS. TEN YEARS!!!!
A decade of exploration to celebrate with the Mars Exploration Rovers. Ten years ago an incredible little adventurer with indomitable 'spirit' landed in Gusev Crater. After an incredible journey across rugged plains, climbing mountains and discovering evidence of volcanic activity and sulphate soils, we lost our little girl just a few years ago. But her sister drives on, continuing the adventure. Thank you Spirit. We will always remember you. It's been an amazing 10 years. A wonderful 10 years. Thank you as always to those who cared for her and to those who continue to push forward across the dusty face of Mars. |
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Jan 4 2014, 05:35 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Thought that some may enjoy a themed desktop to commemorate the milestone.
There's also the official MER10 website to look through. http://mars.nasa.gov/mer10/ More to come as the month progresses. Stu and I have something special in the works |
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Jan 4 2014, 06:09 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
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Jan 4 2014, 10:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Remembering Spirit with one of mars stu's wonderful pieces of prose http://astropoetry.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/journeys-end/
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Jan 5 2014, 04:21 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2106 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Here's the spaceflightnow.com feed, for anyone else feeling nostalgic (read bottom to top):
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status3.html |
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Jan 6 2014, 02:32 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 691 Joined: 21-December 07 From: Clatskanie, Oregon Member No.: 3988 |
In celebrating Spirit's 10th anniversary, I have archived using the PDS Images, every Pancam color image from Landing day to the last color image. Opportunity's is on the way. There is plenty of room for improvement. Enjoy!
http://www.epicuniversal.com/MERgallery/index.php/Spirit |
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Jan 6 2014, 02:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 3-January 10 Member No.: 5156 |
In celebrating Spirit's 10th anniversary, I have archived using the PDS Images. Thanks a lot for this. After all these years it is still amazing to find new views, like this from sol 3 (http://www.epicuniversal.com/MERgallery/var/albums/Spirit/sol0003/2p126632659rad0200p2899l456C1.jpg?m=1387924674). I hadn't seen this before. It is interesting how dusty the later images are. Comparing sol 12 with sol 2118: http://www.epicuniversal.com/MERgallery/va...pg?m=1387926667 http://www.epicuniversal.com/MERgallery/va...pg?m=1389013025 -------------------- Need more input ...
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Jan 7 2014, 01:48 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2431 Joined: 30-January 13 From: Penang, Malaysia. Member No.: 6853 |
In celebrating Spirit's 10th anniversary, I have archived using the PDS Images, every Pancam color image from Landing day to the last color image. Opportunity's is on the way. There is plenty of room for improvement. Enjoy! http://www.epicuniversal.com/MERgallery/index.php/Spirit Great resource James Looking forward to spending time rekindling old memories, as well as discovering those colour images I missed along the way.... Also looking forward to the future additions of Opportunity.... Thanks |
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Jan 8 2014, 12:23 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2106 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
10th Anniversary event at the Smithsonian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMl7Q0KHcQ4 Around 39 minutes in, lots of details about public outreach and indirect mentions of UMSF. |
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Jan 14 2014, 08:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
My tribute to the anniversary
Sol 2001. West Valley, the unreachable land, at dawn. Made with PDS datas. -------------------- |
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Jan 15 2014, 12:51 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Beautiful Damia.
That image suddenly generated some dust in the room and my eyes are mysteriously watering. |
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Jan 15 2014, 06:10 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 28-August 07 From: San Francisco Member No.: 3511 |
Beautiful, haunting... a place now so familiar to us...
I've dreamt of walking that bit... Thanks for the moment Damia! -------------------- 'She drove until the wheels fell off...'
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Jan 15 2014, 12:42 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
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Jan 15 2014, 12:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2431 Joined: 30-January 13 From: Penang, Malaysia. Member No.: 6853 |
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Jan 15 2014, 01:11 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
Thank you for these very touching comments I had to do the colorized version WOW ! Thanks a lot Damia : how nice ! PS : I made a try several years ago using the "old" technique by extracting the real colors inside the images taken at noon (the ones used to build the 'Calypso' Panorama), creating special pictures bearing only the chrominance and then paste those on the panchromatic pics taken at sols 2001 -sunrise- and sol 2002 -sunset which gave the luminosity and contrast. The resulting images show the real colors of the Martian surface taken at different times of the day. See link : http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=169422 |
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