PSP, It's coming... Options

[tuvas]

Well, we all know PSP is coming. What do you think MRO will do that's cool in the first few weeks of it's official PSP? Don't worry, you won't get any insider info from me;-) But I am curious as to what you might think.

The only thing that I know is finding a Phoenix landing site is the highest priority, and MRO will have it's highest priority towards finding the site, ASAP.

[Pavel]

The only thing that I know is finding a Phoenix landing site is the highest priority, and MRO will have it's highest priority towards finding the site, ASAP.

I have an odd feeling that it would remove some element of surprise from the landing. We'll know how the place would look like before Phoenix lands. Maybe the pictures of the proposed site should be published with a "spoiler warning"?

[tuvas]

I have an odd feeling that it would remove some element of surprise from the landing. We'll know how the place would look like before Phoenix lands. Maybe the pictures of the proposed site should be published with a "spoiler warning"?

LOL! One thing you have to realize is that the exact location of Phoenix's landing won't be known until lt actually lands. I think the Phoenix team has 3 areas they are looking to land in, and HiRISE'll try to tell it which of them is the safer. I think there's about a 120 km long eliptical area where Phoenix will land, it's not that precise...

[Stu]

Well, we all know PSP is coming. What do you think MRO will do that's cool in the first few weeks of it's official PSP? Don't worry, you won't get any insider info from me;-) But I am curious as to what you might think.

I think we really need to solve the "gullies" issue, because they're crucial to our understanding of present conditions and processes on Mars, so I'm hoping for lots of close-ups of gullies.

I'd also like to see close-ups of the caldera of Olympus Mons, so I can visualise better what it would be like to walk around up there. And - as you're subtly taking requests - how about a lovely portrait of what I've always considered to be *my* crater, in Ganges Chasma, which has hypnotised me ever since I first saw it in the Viking days. Everyone knows the image...



... so some nice pix of the landslides and crumbling crater edge, thank you!

[tuvas]

And - as you're subtly taking requests - how about a lovely portrait of what I've always considered to be *my* crater, in Ganges Chasma, which has hypnotised me ever since I first saw it in the Viking days. Everyone knows the image...

LOL. I'm not by any means taking requests, although there will be a system to do so at some point in time... Just interested in your thoughts, that's all.

[RichardLeis]

Hello. I'm Richard Leis, Operations Specialist for HiRISE. The title means little - simply put, I get to look at pretty pictures all day, in between more tedious work. This job is a dream come true.

My favorite region on Mars is Memnonia, and I hope my suggested observations are taken early in PSP. I like the Memnonia region because of methane. Both methane and water vapor abundances appear to coincide on Mars and there is a little blip in the water-vapor-concentration graphic produced from Mars Express PFS data at Latitude 0, Longitude 210 that lies roughly over Mangala Valles, within the Memnonia region. I'm no scientist, but it will be nice to see whatever I can see on the floor of the outflow area.

Mangala Valles and the surrounding Memnonia region is clearly one of wind erosion and yardangs and the stripping away of much evidence about ancient fluid flow through the region. I like to imagine, however, that the obvious is not so obvious, and that methane and water vapor in the region might actually mean something.

The Mac on my desk at work has a name: Memnonia. I just had one of the tech guys change the name of my laptop to Memnonia2. The only real reason I'm obsessed with Memnonia is because I received an A on a paper/presentation about the region in "Mars" class, taught Spring 2005 by the HiRISE PI, Dr. Alfred McEwen

[Stu]

LOL. I'm not by any means taking requests, although there will be a system to do so at some point in time... Just interested in your thoughts, that's all.

Was joking tuv, don't worry...

[Stu]

Hello. I'm Richard Leis, Operations Specialist for HiRISE. The title means little - simply put, I get to look at pretty pictures all day, in between more tedious work. This job is a dream come true.

Okay everyone, hands up who hates Richard?

Hmmm... a Mars-obsessed scientist who gives his computers names... I think you'll fit in well here!
Welcome aboard Richard, good to have another Insider with us. This place gets more like a martian X-Files every day!

Looking forward to reading your comments and insights over the coming months and hopefully years...

[djellison]

FatBoySlim and I (that's my laptop) have enjoyed the HiRISE imagery to date

Doug

[monitorlizard]

Since the information on clays at Mawrth Vallis just keeps getting more interesting all the time, I'm really hoping MRO studies many more valleys/channels in great detail (HiRISE + CRISM). One would hope that Mawrth is not one of a kind!

[ustrax]

Hello. I'm Richard Leis, Operations Specialist for HiRISE. The title means little - simply put, I get to look at pretty pictures all day, in between more tedious work. This job is a dream come true.

Hey Doug...This forum ain't what it used to be anymore...
It's loosing all it's credibility...

[tuvas]

Hmmm... a Mars-obsessed scientist who gives his computers names... I think you'll fit in well here!

I just want it known that pretty much everyone at PIRL (And HiROC, their are in the same building) names their computers after something space related, we have names like Pandora, Tethys, deimos, phobos, Mars, Jupiter, etc.

[dvandorn]

In my little home network, here, my computer is named HAL. When I got an add-on hard drive to accomodate the large files I was stacking up, I named it HAL Jr.



-the other Doug

[RichardLeis]

Hmmm... a Mars-obsessed scientist who gives his computers names... I think you'll fit in well here!
Welcome aboard Richard, good to have another Insider with us.

Still working on my undergraduate degree, so it will be a few more life times before I am a "real" scientist. HiRISE turned out to be an incredible and timely opportunity. Wow, space operations will hire anyone off the street these days - like me

When I was a kid during the Voyager 2 grand tour, my participation in planetary science was limited to cutting out pictures in the newspaper of Uranus, Neptune, and their moons and pasting them in a scrapbook. With the Internet, the "People's Camera", forum software, image galleries, HiBlog, the PDS, etc. those of us who want to can participate in brand new ways. To me, that is as important a breakthrough as the advanced capabilities of the current generation of robotic explorers.

[nprev]

My now-ailing laptop (due to some stupidly spilled tea--no, not beer--yesterday) has no name, but sure needs some good thoughts from everyone. Typing on a USB keyboard now, trying to burn out the bad stuff via a prolonged power-on...