Comments on: Renewed search for Mars Polar Lander

By: PECQUERY

PECQUERY — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:26:25 +0000

in the file PSP_005391_1030 we can see one impact a little black crater behind left a volcanic crater(yellow brown upper right of the photo), behind this impact in the middle end of the photo we can see most grey brown pixel the may sonde with parachute(black pixels)
I may be wrong i m sure of 70% in target area in axe 77.1°/165.4° XP

By: Kite

Kite — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:54:07 +0000

Hi Lonnie & other readers, If you want to suggest a candidate, you can give us the line, sample of the pixels in a specific filename so we know what area you're talking about. You could also post an image somewhere & link to it from a comment here. The Unmanned Spaceflight Forums are usually a good place to get some feedback on your candidates. Here's a link to the latest page of the relevant thread. Also, to participate in a more organized effort than we have the resources to put together, contact Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society. She's keeping track of volunteers that are searching each image, and is taking candidates for review. Here's a link to her post.

By: Pablo Lonnie Pacheco Railey

Pablo Lonnie Pacheco Railey — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:22:24 +0000

Hi guys
I found a twin spot that caught my attention in image PSP_002846_1040. How can I send you the annotated image?
Clear skies
Lonnie

By: Emily Lakdawalla

Emily Lakdawalla — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:39:54 +0000

Hooray for new images! Now that I’m back at work I’ll be happy to carry on organizing the search. I’ve added all the ESP and PSP images over the site to my web page. Just shoot me an email to tell me which image you’re searching and I’ll keep count on that page — that way we can make sure the search effort is evenly spread.

By: Andrew Brown 3488

Andrew Brown 3488 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:09:05 +0000

Hi Keir,

If you can use the viewer blow up suspect feature & then crop & save it as JPG or PNG, & then email it to me @
andrew.brown1969@btinternet.com

I’ll have a look & get back to you with my opinion.

It is wonderful news tha this search is being renewed. Hopefully MPL with the parachute, etc will be found, but also this is great science being accomplished here with extnede HiRISE observations of this region on Mars, that lets face it is not that well known.

It would be good to find out what happened to MPL though.

I still say that another lander, perhaps like Phoenix or an airbag landing system static one like Mars Pathfinder be sent to the MPL landing site.

Andrew Brown.

By: Keir Davis

Keir Davis — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:23:36 +0000

Hi there.
I posted on a linked blog page yesterday yet find that my input doesn’t exist any longer – so I am trying again.
I found an interesting feature on the initial image that downloads with the viewer.
I was hoping someone might verify if its a viable target or not.
Thanks.
Keir