[X] My Assistant

[slinted]

This isn't really a Spirit only topic, but since she has been on Mars a bit longer, I'll give her the honor of this thread.

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/rovingmars/

January 27 release

[djellison]

I love the two Nova programs, the first was my favorite, it covered the development and testing and just a few days after landing. The 'chute tests, airbag tests, Steve worrying about having Mini-TES being shock tested. It was a cracking insight into the development of it all. The Comet-Impact program I saw about DI didnt really capture things the same way, but it was quite good, particularly figuring out how to do the solar arrays.

Dan did some great anims for the first of the two MER Nova programs showing them squishing MER into the pathfinder sized lander, very funny

I'm looking forward to the MER Imax hugely, just the V.O. for the Trailer, and to be honest with most trailers that come out of Hollywood, make me cringe. We dealt with a V.O. artist for a project at work, he was a Brit but his 'reel' had some hillarious hollywood like VO's in it - had us in stitches

Doug

[lyford]

I love the two Nova programs, the first was my favorite, it covered the development and testing and just a few days after landing.

I loved the Steve vs. Steve bit when Gorevan from Honeybee was fretting about the blueberries and how they might ruin the RAT... to drill or not to drill. A nice insight into the personalities involved and how cooperative these missions really are.

STEVE GOREVAN: Look at this. You cannot see this berry in the place that we looked at.

STEVE SQUYRES: Have you got it properly registered with the pancam? Do you know where you are?

STEVE GOREVAN: I did not see those spherules in the pancam.

STEVE SQUYRES: Steve, sit down with some pancam images and get this stuff registered. You've got to figure out where you are, man.

STEVE GOREVAN: I promise that's what Phil and Aquille are doing. That's what we've been doing since I got here, but we can't find this.

STEVE SQUYRES: Well, they're obviously there.

STEVE GOREVAN: We'll solve it.

STEVE SQUYRES: Solve it by the science assessment meeting.

STEVE GOREVAN: Hey, we got paid, we'll solve it.

[mars loon]

I loved the Steve vs. Steve bit when Gorevan from Honeybee was fretting about the blueberries and how they might ruin the RAT... to drill or not to drill. A nice insight into the personalities involved and how cooperative these missions really are.

I highly recommend both NOVA programs as I wrote in this thread earlier
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...indpost&p=31952
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mars/

Also I had the priviledge to meet Steve Gorevan when I invited him to give a lecture in Princeton, NJ a few months back. Another great guy with a great story to tell. He even loaned me a scale model RAT for my Mars outreach presentations. So far the RAT's have done well over 100 grindings and brushing vs a spec of 6. Honeybee is a 1st class company

some details in this thread:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1385

for anyone who may be in the Philadelphia area, my next presentation (with the RAT model) is here on Jan 11, click on meetings:
http://www.rittenhouseastronomicalsociety.org/