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[Astrophil]

The MOC public target request program is a wonderful idea.

Just wondering - does anyone here have any experience of having used it successfully? Any anecdotes/tips on the most time-effective way to identify bits that haven't been photographed yet, and on writing the "description of purpose" in a way that will meet the MSSS criteria? So far I've come up with "nobody's taken a photograph of this bit yet", which I guess probably won't cut the mustard.

[djellison]

I've thought about it a lot, but the things I really like to see ( landers etc ) they say they already try to image at every opportunity (pun not intended)

Short of asking for a MOC image of the acre of mars that my other half bought me for our anniversary ( yes yes, not worth the paper they're printed on, but I still wanted one - it's on the SW slope of Olympus mons ) I'm stuck for suggestions really.

Monitoring of steep crater walls for landslides it good

Victoria crater is another obvious submission, but technically it'll be classified under a landing site fairly soon so they'll be imaging it anyway.

Massive kudos to MSSS though - they're getting about 20-40 a month done, thats a couple a day in some cases. Hopefully HiRise's program will be similar - in which case i'll be the first to submit the Pathfinder landing site as I want to spot Sojourner

Doug