Greatest Hits, Remembering some of the UMSF communities greatest creations Options

[djellison]

One of my personal favorites is still.....the high speed turtle and friends by Eric back in 2008

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...mp;#entry108306
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&id=13308

I know friends in the JPL Media Office have regularly cited it as a "You think THAT's weird......what about all THIS" Pareidolia 101.


And - John's invite for folks to be part of the NH @ Jupiter Kodak moment planning
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5061

[Antdoghalo]

Favorite time has to be 2015 with Ceres and Pluto and especially the "Independence Day of Terror". Watching the makeshift maps be made on the spot was interesting! Also of note are the maps of Curiosity and Percy.

[Explorer1]

Incoming! is an absolute classic thread; from the very first asteroid detected prior to Earth impact (Sudan 2008), all the way through Chelyabinsk in February 2013, and the rest. A reminder of our cosmic shooting gallery...

[nprev]

The Phoenix EDL thread was a terrific experience. After 16 years, the tension and excitement still shines through!

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5157

[stevesliva]

I liked when there was an imagined 'abyss' that Spirit was roving towards. IIRC someone (Emily?) asked a project scientist about it, in jest, of course.

Also, the evidence shown here that immediate availability of images was mutually beneficial to science teams and enthusiasts has been a lasting good.

[djellison]

Thought I'd share (which his permission ) this lovely email I got from Steve Squyres when I let him know the news.....

Wow… the end of an era!


I honestly can’t remember when I first found out about UnmannedSpaceflight.com, but it was very early in the MER surface mission. There were several sites that were following our progress then, and I somehow came across them and began to lurk just for entertainment purposes. Some were pretty goofy, but there was a mixture of enthusiasm and thoughtfulness at USF that I found refreshing and enjoyable. I pretty quickly stopped looking at the others (except when somebody sent me a link to something particularly outlandish), but I continued to lurk on USF for years. Beyond the enthusiasm and thoughtfulness, I was also impressed by the quickly evident and rapidly growing technical prowess of some of the participants. You know where that led… because many of the USF technical wizards were in Europe, I could get up three hours earlier than my JPL colleagues on the west coast, go through the overnight mosaics on USF with my morning coffee, and send JPL my thoughts on the next sol’s plan before they’d even seen the downlink.


It led other places too… a lovely visit from Stu the Poetry Dude, a really fun email exchange with Lobo/Rui about Ultreya/El Dorado, and much more. Best of all for me was seeing the way the experienced touched the lives of so many people, most notably you. Anyway, congratulations for all the USF achieved… it was a real treat following along with it.


Cheers, SS

[nprev]

Higher accolades than that are not possible. You done good, Doug.

[Explorer1]

What a goodbye note, Doug! I still remember that podcast (was that even a word?) you had with him (and when you first mentioned "Ultreya Abyss").

[tdemko]

The BBQ still lives bright in my memory

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&p=58801

[PDP8E]

April 2012
Canberra Deep Space webcam
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[mcaplinger]

From my biased perspective, the forum's zenith was reached during the first two imaging orbits of Juno -- go back and read those threads and the excitement is palpable: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8236 and http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8245

The Junocam team was somewhat prepared to process images when we got into Jupiter orbit in 2016, but the level of expertise and perseverance shown by the amateur community was, TBH, a total surprise to us. It's completely fair to say that the public interest in Junocam images was almost entirely due to amateur processing: the three covers of SCIENCE with Junocam images all involved amateurs (see https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/t...-imaging-career )

Shoutouts to Gerald, John, Roman, Bjorn, Eli, Brian, Kevin, Matt, and all the other tireless image processors whose efforts really made Junocam shine!