AR's directions were lousy (took me to a landfill !) and I wandered around dirt roads for awhile.
Bonehead.
On the edge of the Painted Desert area, part of the Blue Mesa formation... full of signs of ancient rivers and lakes. And awash in petrified wood... all over. Even a few logs. It was hard to not over-sample. Lots of fully agate pieces, varieties of colors and processes.. one with fine-grained structures still preserved!
That sounds beautiful! Oh, I wish I could see it. I can't wait to see the images. Sounds like I'd be too tempted to do what I do at Rockhound State Park, though. Hmmm. Come to think of it, I wonder if a permit there would allow you to test a rover for taking soil and rock samples? It's a thought...
And water-rounded specimens, one with banding around it. ;-).
The spacesuit guys from JSC gave up and left... they can't handle mud in the joints of their pressurized suit. As did the communications team from NASA-Glenn.
That sucks. Now how can you do a test comparison? Argh.
collect images for the 3D database, whether or not they wished to come along.
At some point the science behind this has to be discussed. There's 3D, and then there's 3D. The Mars Virtual 3D sim was generated using hundreds of images taken from stereographic cameras. I'm not sure how to take the flat images and project them into 3D space using a single camera.
And they lacked leadership, someone to be a bellwether and just start out. And organization..
They needed you. Your encouragement, your leadership, your direction. They're lucky to have you.
I got my 100m-spaced grid points in a 3x4 matrix, with panoramic and closeup images at each waypoint.
Okay, that's right...we discussed that process during the meeting. I guess that partially answers my question above.
And I gave AR and SD something that they could also point towards as a success after their frustrating week here.
That's excellent. Given weather conditions and the other teams pulling out, I think you've risen above the challenge.
(La Posada), where I had meltingly good chile-mint lamb chops...
I find that really good food helps me get through some of the rougher parts of life. Take any kind of pampering you can get to balance out the rest is my philosophy, I suppose. What was the rest of the menu like and the atmosphere?
I'm down and feeling isolated and alone... sigh. I'm not going to go into specific details.
I'm sorry to hear that. Hope things get better. *hug*
No weekend plans, other than buying groceries...
If it's any consolation, I have no plans for this weekend other than to get back to normal and clean my apartment. Grocery shopping is probably in there somewhere, too. Remind me about Zucca's...once sinboy and I talk about his work hours this week, perhaps we can go for dessert sometime after 9 pm one night.
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Bonehead.
On the edge of the Painted Desert area, part of the Blue Mesa formation... full of signs of ancient rivers and lakes. And awash in petrified wood... all over. Even a few logs. It was hard to not over-sample. Lots of fully agate pieces, varieties of colors and processes.. one with fine-grained structures still preserved!
That sounds beautiful! Oh, I wish I could see it. I can't wait to see the images. Sounds like I'd be too tempted to do what I do at Rockhound State Park, though. Hmmm. Come to think of it, I wonder if a permit there would allow you to test a rover for taking soil and rock samples? It's a thought...
And water-rounded specimens, one with banding around it. ;-).
Anything like
The spacesuit guys from JSC gave up and left... they can't handle mud in the joints of their pressurized suit. As did the communications team from NASA-Glenn.
That sucks. Now how can you do a test comparison? Argh.
collect images for the 3D database, whether or not they wished to come along.
At some point the science behind this has to be discussed. There's 3D, and then there's 3D. The Mars Virtual 3D sim was generated using hundreds of images taken from stereographic cameras. I'm not sure how to take the flat images and project them into 3D space using a single camera.
And they lacked leadership, someone to be a bellwether and just start out. And organization..
They needed you. Your encouragement, your leadership, your direction. They're lucky to have you.
I got my 100m-spaced grid points in a 3x4 matrix, with panoramic and closeup images at each waypoint.
Okay, that's right...we discussed that process during the meeting. I guess that partially answers my question above.
And I gave AR and SD something that they could also point towards as a success after their frustrating week here.
That's excellent. Given weather conditions and the other teams pulling out, I think you've risen above the challenge.
(La Posada), where I had meltingly good chile-mint lamb chops...
I find that really good food helps me get through some of the rougher parts of life. Take any kind of pampering you can get to balance out the rest is my philosophy, I suppose. What was the rest of the menu like and the atmosphere?
I'm down and feeling isolated and alone... sigh. I'm not going to go into specific details.
I'm sorry to hear that. Hope things get better. *hug*
No weekend plans, other than buying groceries...
If it's any consolation, I have no plans for this weekend other than to get back to normal and clean my apartment. Grocery shopping is probably in there somewhere, too. Remind me about Zucca's...once