I didn't know of your existence then! I hope someday to return and have tea

At the end of last November, I walked along that path! We started at Ginkaku-ji, found Honen-in by accident, stopped for our first-ever okonomiyaki at Okonomiyaki Zen, and wandered through a short hailstorm to wrap up our Kyoto visit at Eikando. Unforgettable and beautiful. 🍁

I miss you both! I hope you checked all the egg rolls

My life has changed direction and I’m no longer in the field. But I’m always rooting for the HiRISE team, and am delighted that they still are putting a creaky old spacecraft through its paces.

After much testing + coordination, HiRISE imaged its 1st comet. But not its last! We repeated the whole adventure for C/2013 A1 Siding Spring, joined by most of the Mars spacecraft fleet. Planning for that was one of my last projects for MRO + HiRISE before moving to Mars 2020 Perseverance.

I was HiRISE investigation scientist (liaison btwn camera team + JPL) when Alan Delamere first suggested this for comet C/2012 S1 ISON. Alan was one of the original people involved in inventing and building the camera. I lined up MRO management + Lockheed Martin engineers for him to convince.

...then the camera designed to always have a (relatively) warm planetary surface filling the entire field of view has to take a picture of a very distant, cold object. The planning & processing s/w makes assumptions about what kind of pictures HiRISE takes and how MRO moves, so some is done by hand.

Have a wonderful trip! Last November we went to Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto, and Hiroshima, and it was amazing - I already want to go back.

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