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Doug Ellison
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Dad, Husband, Mars Rover Crew Chief. Opinions and views expressed are my own. Not a NASA account. @doug_ellison@deepspace.social
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maybe the real weekend was the ladies and gentlemen we met along the way
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I've had a tiny tiny insight into how much work, how many leads have to be followed, how many pitches and rejections and dead ends and just how hard and relentless they've had to work to get here. I'm so damn proud of Stef and Anders.
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PRUETT: What a difference a year makes racer.com/2022/11/17/pru via @racermag @don_cusick @CusickMSports @stef_wilson @AndersKrohn @DreyerReinbold #IndyCar #Indy500
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Today in "Why is live chat turned on?"
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As Orion heads off to the moon a HUGE thank you to DSN Schedulers everywhere. They've been working magic as Artemis comes through the network like a freight train with almost no lead time to change plans and all without skipping a beat. Love you guys.
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Eppur si muove
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<endless scream and maybe some tears>
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Congratulations to Good Night Oppy. The documentary has won the #criticschoice Documentary Award for Best Documentary Feature. #GoodNightOppy @ryanwhiteIV @Amazonstudios @PrimeVideo #documentaryawards
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YES. YES. YES.
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Congratulations to Ryan White, winner of the #criticschoice Documentary Award for Best Director. #goodnightoppy @ryanwhiteIV @amazonstudios @primevideo #documentaryawards
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And best Sci/Nature doc…..AND best Narration. 🥳
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YES - Blake wins for best score 🚀🎹🏆
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And all that said - now time for the awards - youtube.com/watch?v=ke7W3M - Good Night Oppy is up for Best Documentary Feature, Ryan White for Best Director, Best Editing, Best Score, Best Narration, and Best Science/Nature Documentary. That's a lot :)
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Time for another #GoodNightOppy spam thread as we approach the @criticschoice Documentary awards tonight. What data got used by ILM and the editing team to build Mars?
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tl;dr Incredible creativity and talent put into this by ILM - and the raw data they started with is all out there in the public domain. Just like with the raw JPGs of every image that was put online as the missions were still going...this adventure is yours to be a part of.
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And for the surface? Pancam's gotchu.... pancam.sese.asu.edu/mosaics.html and the raw data at pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/mer/ - I'm not sure exactly which mosiacs that I made a long time ago that made it into the final cut - but I'm sure I saw these two
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Want to get a bit more elevation to your Opportunity map? Well - individual DEMs are the best orbital data you're gonna have.... like this of Victoria Crater uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID which is what they started with for that opening shot of Opportunity at Victoria Crater...
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Need to get closer to Gusev or Meridiani - there are maps at the Analyst Notebook.... an.rsl.wustl.edu
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Putting those together lets you animate Mars pretty much up to a high orbital view like this pretty popular render I did about 12 years ago photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA142
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Want to render a whole globe 'o Mars... you need an elevation model to give you the lumps and bumps ( astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Mar ) and a map to put on top of it ( astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Mar )
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Time for another #GoodNightOppy spam thread as we approach the Documentary awards tonight. What data got used by ILM and the editing team to build Mars?
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Sent in $50. The Indycar fan community is really pretty special.
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Y’all are truly remarkable. Day ONE of our #PRUEKids fundraiser, and you’ve already given over $1500 to help kids in need. That’s 15 kids who get to have a good holiday because of our amazing racing family. 
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Time to turn off F1 Twitter. It’s gonna evolve from ‘toxic’ to ‘actual nuclear war’
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Five-second time penalty for Verstappen for causing a collision #F1 #BrazilGP
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🚀 We're switching gears to old friends on Mars.
On #SciFriLive📻, & join us to talk about a new documentary that brings Spirit & Opportunity Mars rovers back to life.
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Maps like this one make the GOP think they're right to be over-represented in this way. In reality - neither Wisconsin nor the USA are that red. It looks far more like this. carto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappvie
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So the Democrats won statewide with 51% of the vote and earned 30% of the state house. Can someone explain to me how Wisconsin is a democracy?
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Finally got to watch Good Night Oppy, a wonderful ode to exploration, endurance and the emotional highs and lows along the long road to Mars. Highly recommend.
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But I have to give credit to the amazing AV crew running the show at the Four Seasons - they looked after me so well and ran what must be a really complicated setup with perfection for nearly 5 straight hours. I hope our paths cross again...you were awesome.
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. who seemed like she found the movie just as emotionally cathartic as I did ( cnn.com/profiles/ashle )
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At one point I think I spoke to 5 different folks in under 30 mins. I don't know if they were just being nice...but all of them genuinely seemed to have loved the movie. A few highlights that hopefully some of you will see over the next few days :
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I've seen those talking head interviews for movies in the past and presumed they brought their own cameras. NOPE! The journalist walks in....sits down right infront of you - they get 4 minutes to chat....and they get sent the footage. It makes it so slick.
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And it was from ALL over the place - local tv folks from all around the country as well as movie and science press from around the globe. India, Portugal, Netherlands, UK. But also about a dozen in-person. This is where it gets weird
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So I was talking to people right down the camera. They got moved into the call - the team in the room record the interview at my end - and then they get told ‘OK you have 4 minutes’ or some had 8, the longest was about 20.
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This was my seat - about half were over zoom calls but the awesome part was the tech team using a teleprompter as a zoom screen…..
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DAMN is this a slick operation. An entire suite at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills set up for me for the whole morning. Two cameras - one for me, one for whoever might be interviewing in person.
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A full morning doing about 25 mini interviews - some with - for #GoodNightOppy. Behold - a newbies experience of a Press Junket.....
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This is just so weird - seeing our old girl in places like this - another awesome evening sharing our story.
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