jay: (contemplative)
jay ([personal profile] jay) wrote2005-07-29 12:47 am

exploring new places

Our helicopter traverse on Sunday is chronicled over here as a local story on a CBS affiliate.

And as the first person to visit those particular areas.... I have naming rights. :) After consultation here, I've proposed that the broad orange-red plain be called Korolev Planitia (we use some Mars conventions in the namespaces) in honor of the father of Russian rocketry. JJ thought this was okay, as well. And that the small canyon be named for my father. :)



Here's the orange-red colored broad plain, roughly 5 miles x 5 miles:


I'm taking a gravity datapoint:


And here's one side of Jack Glass Canyon, from above:

[identity profile] mactavish.livejournal.com 2005-07-29 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
I love that there's a Jack Glass Canyon. :)

[identity profile] cyan-blue.livejournal.com 2005-07-29 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
Awww :-)

Jack Glass canyon

[identity profile] twoglass.livejournal.com 2005-07-29 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
Very cool!
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[identity profile] aquaeri.livejournal.com 2005-07-29 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
Proving my ability to get distracted, what's the white shadow in the top picture? I'm guessing it a reflection but I can't see what of. I hope your dad enjoys his Canyon.

My canyon

[identity profile] twoglass.livejournal.com 2005-07-29 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Jay,

I'm sorry that I didn't understand you last night when you and Vicky called. Your mother said that you had named a canyon after me. She showed me the picture. I had just started my nebuilizer treatment when you called and couldn't hear very well.

I want to thank you, I was very very pleased that I have a piece of this earth named after me. I think it quite an honor. But an even greater honor is having a son who thinks enough of me to name a canyon after me. It means a lot to me. After all how many people can make that statement. Thanks again, I love you.
Dad
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Re: My canyon

[personal profile] rosefox 2005-07-29 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwwww! How tremendously sweet.

Re: My canyon

[identity profile] mactavish.livejournal.com 2005-07-29 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
*sniffle*

Re: My canyon

[identity profile] cyan-blue.livejournal.com 2005-07-29 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwwwww! :-)

He's got a good son in you.

Re: My canyon

[identity profile] simplykimberly.livejournal.com 2005-08-01 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
You have a wonderful name for use as a place ... Jack Glass Canyon ... fantastic.

Your response here made me sniffly, in a good way :)

[identity profile] tenacious-snail.livejournal.com 2005-07-29 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
awwwwww!