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First driver on Mars
Jennifer Trosper, mission manager at JPL for the Mars rover Spirit, has converted to the 24-hour, 39-minute Martian day. What her days are like, from the MIT alumni site. Tip from Periapsis.org, which also found that the daytime temperatures on Mars have been warmer than those in Buffalo, Hartford and other cities in the Northeast.
NASA says, by the way, that by Saturday morning both rovers will be out and around on Martian soil.
LATimes did a piece on the odd hours a week or two ago. The Mars mission folks even have special watches that run on the longer day.
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Anyone notice that the Singleton papers (Daily News, Star-News, SGV Tribune, etc.) which should own the Mars Rover story, given JPL's location, are relying on the AP for almost all their coverage?
And the Times is doing a lot, of course, but where was the coverage of the missions six months or a year ago, during the planning, construction, and launch? There is a significant economic impact locally, after all...
At a time when the Readership Institute's research shows that one areas where newspapers can clearly offer something that readers want, in-depth science coverage, I wonder why the editors at the LAT and/or Singleton did not (or could not) find one qualified writer to take the lead on this story and just cover the heck out of it, going all the way back to the planning phase?
Seems like a pretty simple decision to make. JPL (which built the rovers and the probes) Boeing (which built the boosters and the engines), and most of the people involved in the scientific research and operational side of Mars Rover are almost all southern California-based, and NASA is doing a Mars mission every 24 months, during the conjunction: why not a "Mars Diary" type series of stories, akin to Richard Tregaskis?
The Times is doing a good job, but the NOVA program on Mars Rover, that showed some of the behind-the-scenes, white knuckle drama of the engineering questions, was fascinating television.
Southern California is a scientifically literate area, of course ... the audience is there.
Regards
Posted by: Brad Smith at January 31, 2004 10:22 AM