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This past weekend I had a chance to visit and old friend in it's forever home.

Seeing Dusty, Spirit and Opportunity's Earth based copy, in the National Air & Space Museum definitely had me a little misty eyed but with a smile.

I spent many years as the testbed lead responsible for Dusty's health and safety and lots of shifts operating it in the testbed, I definitely have an attachment to this specific rover. Dusty may not have gone to Mars, but it was the only MER I have seen with my own eyes.

The Mars Exploration Rover 'surface system testbed' rover in a glass frontedes display. The rover is up on a magenta pedestal with a photograph taken by the Spirit Rover as the background.

A thin layer of dust from the simulant used during the testing campaign to free Spirit from Scamander Crater coats the rover's deck...hence the nickname, Dusty.

@cosmicray Nice. I hope to fly out there later this month, Wx depending. (A lot of Wx needs to cooperate for it to happen)

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Meet Dr. Sammy, the University of Colorado researcher trying to fend off the next honeybee pandemic
https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/08/sammy-ramsey-honeybee-varroa-tropilaelaps-mites-university-of-colorado/

@doug_ellison A team chief pulling a Friday planning shift...is one of the answers to the question "What Would Jake Do?"

I have been rewatching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I'm into Season 7.

The back to back excellent episodes "The Siege of AR-558" and "It's Only A Paper Moon" still hit hard, but even harder than before.

The both feature a cover of the song "I'll Be Seeing You." Which also happens to be the the last wakeup song for the Opportunity rover (a different version).

In the episode the song is linked to trauma and loss and starting to recover. It's somewhat the same for those of us that worked MER.

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Opportunity 4-21-17 s4707 - From Jason Major - https://flic.kr/p/28axHa4

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Opportunity (24) - From Jacint Roger (@Landru79) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKWrpH

Opportunity MARS

NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / j. Roger

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opportunity sol 3200 Microscopic Imager - From 2di7 & titanio44 - https://flic.kr/p/dRbqSx

"Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech" processing 2di7 & titanio44

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Endeavour Crater Western Rim - From Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill) - https://flic.kr/p/25sciQL

Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Lightroom. HiRISE data processed using gdal.

Data:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS
Source: www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=ESP_018701_1775

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Opportunity (56) - From Jacint Roger (@Landru79) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKWxVU

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Mars Rover Opportunity's Panorama of 'Marathon Valley'

'Marathon Valley' on Mars opens northeastward to a view across the floor of Endeavour Crater in this scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.

Instrument: Panoramic Camera
Mission: Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Tags: Mars
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20749
#space #NASA #JPL #photography #astronomy #astrodon

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Opportunity (59) - From Jacint Roger (@Landru79) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKTFiC

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Opportunity Panorama—Endeavour Crater Rim - From Jason Major - https://flic.kr/p/SVPEg3

This is a color mosaic made from raw images acquired on March 10, 2017 from NASA's Opportunity rover, now in its 14th year of operation on Mars.

It shows a view from the rim of Endeavour Crater in Meridiani Planum.

The image was made by creating three color images from raw data acquired in near-infrared, green, and blue color channels and then sticking the resulting color images together to create a wide angle panorama. Some blurring along the seams is evident, as well as some slight tonal variations where vignetting was reduced. Also the sky has been expanded past the original range of the images. Color is not calibrated.

The haze is due to fine dust in the air, which can also scatter and absorb light to create blue colorations.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Jason Major
twitter.com/JPMajor

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Opportunity mastcam L 2 5 7 Sol 3739 - From 2di7 & titanio44 - https://flic.kr/p/oAuixT

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Opportunity (59) - From Jacint Roger (@Landru79) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKTFiC

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Opportunity Sol 4432 - From 2di7 & titanio44 - https://flic.kr/p/KcS2U7

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech - Processing: Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin / aliveuniverse.today

Went solo flying this afternoon. It was a beautiful afternoon. Lots of other folks in the skies, but I was the only one out of my home base airport.

I took advantage of the quiet airport to get in a few extra practice takeoffs and landings.

#flying #generalaviation

View along the underside of the left wing of a Cessna 182 with the wing strut running from the bottom right corner of the frame diagonally to the wing which overs the top 1/5 of the frame.

The ground below shows the foothills of Colorado with Horsethooth reservoir in the midground. In the far distance is snow covered Longs Peak with a swath of blue sky above and then clouds.

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Took individual frames from this post-LEM-launch LRV video panorama and made a pretty scrappy pan of the post-departure Apollo 17 landing site. https://youtu.be/sj6a0Wrrh1g?t=324

A grey lunar landscape with a lunar module descent stage and some shiny debris scattered around

Having only ever seen historical footage of a crew rated spacecraft returning from the moon, dang it is awesome to see it happen in real time.

Great work Artemis I team! May your post flight analysis have no surprises.

#Artemis1 #Orion #Moon

@marsroverdriver There were some folks on MER engineering that had a hard time understanding that L257 pancam images weren't even approximate true color. Was asked to describe a rock as "blue" once in an engineering report.

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