We’re Huge in Canada
Our awesome technical group sent me the link to a page that calculates an overwhelming number of different statistics for our website. Visitors are broken down by country (lots of Canadian fans!), where they go, how long they stay, what browsers they use…. For the most part, I think people come to the HiRISE website to look at our images – which is as it should be! However, I was astonished to see how many hits the HiBlog gets. We don’t get all that many comments (except for the record-breaking MPL search entry), so here I was, thinking we were in a little bubble of self-absorbed anonymity, talking to ourselves…. 
My protective bubble burst when I saw the number of hits we got over the past few months:
- April: 36,200!
- May: 99,200!
- June: 44,500!
- July: 36,410! (as of this morning)
(The huge number of hits in May was probably due to the combination of the MPL search and the Phoenix imaging.)
…although this could just be 10 people who really love us, hitting “refresh” 4,000 times a month.
I don’t know how this compares to other websites, but I’m humbled and a little intimidated to find we have so many readers! I guess we should write more entries (and better ones!) We’re hoping to recruit some more team members to post, too. Ideas or requests for blog entry topics are welcome! Leave us a comment below. 
July 31st, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Wonderful, can’t wait to hear from more team members.
This blog has been pretty awesome Kite and the lovely website with marvelous images.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Now that you all wanted to give them a freebie satellite, and checked to make sure that their water works for them, how you gonna get paid advertisers?
Seriously, now one got the joke about the frozen Pepsi, but believe it or not guys, the work that wasn’t done in that area would amaze you. The amount of times you see the term “Water Ice”, and some chart, that just as well could represent the density of people that believe in little green men, you’d think someone would give it some thought.
The chemistry of fossilisation on Earth is mostly silica/carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide gas at low pressures convert solar radiation
to different frequencies with incredible efficiencies.
The necessary information about the environment to our test soda pop in, for either Mars or a comet, was totally non available, even at the time of the civilian Mars rover.
There is a piece math homework I’ve definitely been way wrong with before, and it showed of most likely the amount of water dissolved in their sample would be considered a dehydrated if you were to buy the same mix at the store. (I “cheated” instead, the amount of free oxygen in a gamma universe, dubbed in to the original method they wanted) If anyone though to grade the calculus NASA told JPL was the correct one like it was some high school kids state regents exam, we would have known the answer twenty years ago.
Any of you guys flunk cus of the St. Helens list?
August 1st, 2008 at 6:30 am
That’s a lot!
An update about the data collected with HiRISE Clickworkers would be cool.
August 5th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
How about a ‘day in the life’ of a targeting specialist? It seems like bits and pieces are here and there, but what are the steps, process, etc.?
August 7th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
How about a twitter or friendfeed acount for you all…that way we could follow you and it would take much to post,
August 8th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Thanks for the ideas! I’ve really been enjoying Phoenix’s twitter feed. We can think about doing one for HiRISE, although we don’t have as much going on on a daily basis. A “day in the life” is a good idea, too!