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I think you mean this one from #LPSC2019. Abstract online at www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/plu.... #LPSC2025

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Here is @PlanSciCRichey in their suuuuuuper sparkly jacket showing off how the team dynamics on Europa Clipper are VERY MUCH NOT going to be like every past outer planets mission but will instead be a unified team behind the mission goals #LPSC2019

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Here is Debarati Das @debaratidas44 in her A-MA-ZING ChemCam dress with her science of Boron in Gale Crater rocks!! #LPSC2019 cc @startorialist

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Brad: This team has been the most amazing team, the way it has worked together, even after we distributed and only knew each other on the phone, we always knew who everyone was on the other end. You're all amazing. #LPSC2019

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Brad Joliff: Recalls that at end of each planning day, only he, Tim Parker, Larry Soderblom, Tom Wdowiak, and Mike Malin would be left at the end, still at it. #LPSC2019

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Ben Clark: Talks about working on Mars time. With Spirit & Oppy on opposite sides of planet, on Mars time, you could go from Spirit to Oppy nearly without a break. Exciting but grueling. "I was not gonna do that for MSL." #LPSC2019

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Larry: "Mars is just like New Mexico, only more so." And Larry's #1: We built a spacecraft that replicated the capability of a field geologist. Continuous hypothesis and testing as we were walking along -- first real ground truth geologic mapping on another planet. #LPSC2019

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Larry Crumpler has a top 10 greatest things about the mission. #3: visiting an actual volcanic vent site on Mars (an accidental discovery) with Spirit. #2: working with Native American student interns - from Laguna-Acoma high school #NativeAndStem #LPSC2019

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I stood up to give a huge thank-you to the team on behalf of the international community of amateurs who developed around following the raw images from Spirit and Opportunity as they got posted on the Web. #LPSC2019

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Hap McSween is up recalling a hilarious image that had been Photoshopped to tell the rover: GO HOME. And a much more poignant image: the one taken near sunset with Earth a bright spark in the sunset sky. #LPSC2019

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Valerie Fox: A student on the mission, grateful to entire team for opportunity and inspiration -- it's why she's here today. #LPSC2019

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Now Fred Calef: How cool is it, as a grad student, to study something from orbit, and the be like, "you mean, I get to drive up and touch it?" Came in 7 years after start of mission -- got to work on it for last 7. #LPSC2019

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DesMarais: So together we developed "sol quartet." 3 drive-focused sols + opportunistic science, 1 science-heavy sol. Was a way of balancing the desires of scientists and long-term planners. Was the beginning of traverse science. #LPSC2019

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DesMarais: But Steve and Ray had the wisdom of developing a team role of "long term planners," people whose job it was to think beyond tomorrow, and who were empowered to drive, to use the wheels to survey as much as possible. #LPSC2019

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Now Walter Goetz: "I remember well Alian's addiction to whitish rocks." Relfects that the LPSC held just two months after the successful landings was probably the greatest community excitement for a Mars landing ever. #LPSC2019

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Alian thanks Pancam team for "welcoming me with open arms" after descope of Raman; she could still do great spectroscopy with decorrelation stretches of Pancam imagery. (Whole MER team is utterly unselfish about their data; it's whole team's data.) #LPSC2019

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Now Alian Wang (Ray tells her very sternly "five minutes only"). Alian, who came in as part of a Raman spectroscopy team...and then the Raman got descoped. Alian says "Please don't forget Spirit, although it died several years ago!" #LPSC2019

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Now Cathy Weitz is showing a big photo album of memories (I spotted me in one of them!) -- she was on Daily Show with John Stewart (which she had never seen before) #LPSC2019 www.cc.com/video-clips/49kdjf/the-d...

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Ruff: Lost contact with Oppy last June. Phone still worked. On a western road trip in July, phone went completely nuts. Had to rip out battery to get it to power down. Bought a new battery, but phone was dead. In the end, the tech competition was a draw. #LPSC2019

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Arvidson: We set the stage. We led the way. We went to Mars to follow the water. Everything that follows at Mars was built on us. And we're done not because the vehicles wore out but because of Mars. The atmosphere did it. Check out http://jpl.nasa.gov/opportunity-memories #LPSC2019

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(Michael Meyer is doing projection for Ray Arvidson and Ray is hassling the hell out of Mike for the poor quality of his projection work because he can and it must be very satisfying for him.) #LPSC2019

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Ray Arvidson will give highlights of Opportunity, but will give mike to whoever on the team wants it. There is a whole lot of trash-talking among team members happening already -- you can tell these folks have lived together for a while :D #LPSC2019

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Mike Meyer, NASA HQ: "This was done with a complete lack of planning." A bunch of pictures being shown on screen -- including one I took of Doug Ming during the landing of Opportunity. #LPSC2019

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It's just about time for the poster session, but first there's a sorta ad-hoc special evening session memorializing the Mars Exploration Rovers. #LPSC2019

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Current status: going through my notes from #LPSC2019, requesting slide decks from some speakers. I find scientists are always willing to share published papers, but slide decks less commonly, for obvious reasons. But: nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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Check out Sarah Stewart’s @AOC-inspired totally awesome fashion cape that she wore to give her #LPSC2019 talk. It’s from Zara and it has POCKETS (for the microphone battery pack)! cc @startorialist

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Mangold for L’Haridon: shows beautiful dark crystalline material in veins in gray Jura, presents evidence they grew when reducing groundwater leached iron (+ some Mn) from rock and deposited hexagonal iron oxide crystals (shown here: target "Grange") #LPSC2019

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Suggested swag for next year's meeting: opera glasses #LPSC2019

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Turner: Modeling to try to figure out what happened to chemically alter Vera Rubin Ridge. Suggests oxidizing groundwater flowing through at 50C could have produced observed chemical assemblage #LPSC2019 (Questioners seem pretty doubtful of methods tho)

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A couple of talks trying to get at mineralogy differences between red and gray Jura rock on Vera Rubin ridge. Johnson: for reasons, suggest red Jura has smaller grain size, less amorphous content; gray Jura has larger grain size, more amorphous content. #LPSC2019

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