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Dad, Husband, Mars Rover Crew Chief. Opinions and views expressed are my own. Not a NASA account. @doug_ellison@deepspace.social
Jan 24, 2021 23 tweets 8 min read
A lovely chat with my favorite nerds Early on I mention the Helicopter flight computer - lot of details here - pdfs.semanticscholar.org/34c0/da8498745…
Oct 24, 2020 9 tweets 2 min read
Is there a lot going on right now? Yup. Is the last 40 years of political manage of national space priorities as chaotic and unproductive as an angry kitten playing with knitting supplies?Yup. Is this GOP tweet basically all lies? Yup. Does space matter? YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT! I know that with the despicable administration we have, the pandemic unmanaged, people suffering because of <arms wave> all this - it might seem like we should just go ‘Fuck it - who needs the space stuff right now?’. WE. ALL. DO.
Oct 22, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
I mean - it's not hard to figure it out. This is the only mention of the moon in the selections of 7 rounds of SOFIA observing calls sofia.usra.edu/science/propos… Search for some of those terms and you get this paper, that observation requester being one of the co-authors - hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2… Image
Jan 4, 2020 39 tweets 15 min read
Oh my god - the data drop is incredible :O
Trying to process some now!! The first 6 images from the rover panoramic camera. These are actually color - need to debayer them. Will reply down this thread. Data : moon.bao.ac.cn.