LPSC 2007: Goodbye, see you on Mars
I am getting out of here, the number of people around me coughing their way through the last day of the conference is increasing exponentially, and I refuse to succumb (*cough*... too late?)
... I just looked back over the entries from the conference and spotted a recurring theme - Mars...
... I'm not obsessed, it's just the way things go. Most of the amazing images being sent back happen to be from Mars, and even the Lunar part of the LPSC seems somewhat Mars-focussed. As Ben Bussey - a lunar scientist from the Applied Physical Laboratory told me yesterday, "We're going to the Moon to find out if we can go further," and that includes Mars.
So maybe LPSC's 88th meeting will see me reporting from the surface of the red planet. Well it will certainly look familiar by then thanks to all the images I've seen so far...
See you then. Bye.
Comments
I hope the time we'll see the Mars is very close :)
Posted by: islami site islami sohbet | March 17, 2007 11:23 PM
LPSC? I was there once in... 1979! It sounds as if little has changed, except maybe for the length (and colour) of old colleagues hair.
However, it is good to see that there is still some optimism in a field that essentially stalled as I entered it. I think what we are still learning is that there are surprises in infinite numbers and that we are always wrong. Always. Which makes for fun.
I am waiting for a good full moon with a small teelscope and my step-son (who is three) so I can point him at Mare Crisium and say "I once touched a bit of that". Wow. The wonder stays alive.
John Hennessy
Posted by: John Hennessy | April 25, 2007 11:01 PM