I certainly breathed a sigh of relief when we got confirmation from the telemetry that our first image was successfully acquired. Now we’re waiting in suspense to actually receive the image here at HiROC (HiRISE Operations Center). We have some computers set up in the center room so that we can all crowd around and see the image this afternoon.

I share an office with some of our downlink operations people, and right now I’m listening to them discuss their plans for the image processing that will take place this afternoon. They can tell you more about the details of the processing, but essentially right now they are making sure that all the plans and procedures are in place so that things go smoothly this afternoon. The last couple of days have been filled with testing, testing, and more testing.

These past few weeks have been really busy for the operations personnel in HiROC (the HiRISE Operations Center). I have spent the past two weeks working with other HiRISE team members to design and command the observations that will take place in a few hours. (more…)

Here at HiROC, we’re all very busy getting ready for the imaging that will start tomorrow (Friday 9/29/06)!

What are we doing?

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