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[djellison]

http://marswatch.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_...b_al_khali.html

Same 'format' as the Lion King pan - it's a beauty

That makes it 8 1/2 pans to Spirit, 6 to Opportunity (including two halves )

Doug

[djellison]

I think what Steve's updates, and the Pancam site show us is that they're the driving force behind the publicity of this mission. Steve and Jim have clearly done and wanted to do so much in terms of outreach..

But the Legacy pan from spirit speaks volumes - they supplied it to the Photojournal and the JPL web team not long after it was taken....and they just never put it online.

They've done a better job of outreach on this mission than any other unmanned space mission in history...but

We've seen next to nothing from the Mini TES team - I appreciated that P.C. is a busy guy - but the last update on their site is the Haematite map taken from Opportunitys lander. THe Mossbauer and APXS teams I can understand - they're based in Germany and actually - we've had lots of graphs from them...but again, a blog type entry like Steve's would be superb!

I think a mandatory outreach budget as a %'ge of the mission budget. Only a tiny ammount - but it should be in there.

I lookforward to how Hirise manages to be the Peoples camera - will it be as fast as MER for getting stuff online, or more like, say, Odyssey which is about 3 months delayed - or somewhere in between.

Doug