08-15-05: Thoughts and Feelings, Can you see the pale red dot? |
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08-15-05: Thoughts and Feelings, Can you see the pale red dot? |
Ute_Kaden |
Aug 16 2005, 06:15 PM
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TREC Teacher Group: TREC Team Posts: 203 Joined: 27-April 05 Member No.: 10 |
Thoughts and feelings - Can you see the pale red dot?
8-15-05 Today was rather uneventful. Happy faces in the coring science group. All cores from the first leg, HOTRAX 2005, are dated, logged and stored. We will arrive at our next coring station not before midnight, a well deserved break for the coring team. The seismic crew posted their spectacular data in the Messdeck (a very unusual place for scientific data). It clearly means that they are very happy and excited about the data. Seismic data showing strata of the ocean floor several 100 m deep That gives us some time to talk and think about the photos the ice scientists brought back from their first helicopter ice observation flight yesterday. Bruce and Don getting ready for the first ice aerial survey flight Healy 8-14-05, photo by Bruce Elder Healy below 8-14-05, photo by Bruce Elder Look very carefully, do you see the pale red dot? That is the USCGC Healy with 142 sailors onboard. That is us. The pale red dot- USCGC Healy, HOTRAX 2005 Photo by Bruce Elder I posted the photo on our internal ships webpage under the title "Thoughts and feelings… - Can you see the pale red dot?" QUOTE Carl Sagan: "When the climate was congenial, though, when food was plentiful, we were willing to stay put. Unadventurous. Overweight. Careless…Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware. Your own life may be owed to a restless few-drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to discover lands and new worlds….Even if the call of the open road is muted in our time, a central element of the human future lies far beyond the Earth." Carl Sagan in The Pale Blue Dot Best regards, Ute |
Mary Hess |
Aug 17 2005, 10:24 PM
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Ute.....I hope I am doing this right and that you get this. I am John Hopper's mother and this is the first time I have been able to 'follow' him on one his excursions. Your narratives and pictures and FABULOUS!!!! I am having great fun and where you are and what everyone is doing is so awesome. 'Red Dot' is amazing picture.....what a perspective. SOOO glad you are aboard sending all of this.......THANK YOU!!
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Ute_Kaden |
Aug 18 2005, 08:41 PM
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TREC Teacher Group: TREC Team Posts: 203 Joined: 27-April 05 Member No.: 10 |
Hi Mary,
Thank you very much for your fine comment. It encourages me to do the best job possible to inform the public about the great science and work going on at the USCGC Healy. You son, John Hopper and his team are tireless working on the computers to get the data analysis running smoothly, lots of programming and number crunching. Under us, they seem they get spectacular seismic data never seen before. The talk is about a lot of good publications coming out of this expedition. Way to go! Best regards, Ute |
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