LAPIS 3 Telecon

4/05/01

Attempted to start first WITS training but many sites encountered technical difficulties so the training is postponed until Monday, April 9 from 1-2 PDT. The dial-in number is 1-800-367-5754, tone, 575, tone, 46873.

Ray explained that orbital data will be posted a week before the field trials begin, but that LAPIS probably won’t need them since their LAPIS mission is a physical properties experiment in which the rover looks ahead a few meters for a clear patch of soil, goes to the patch and digs and trench and then examines it with instrumentation.

Ray sent out an email with the April 11 tasks (it will also be posted on the info exchange page). Please read it over before the Mars Yard test.

Action items:

--Send Cassie an email about when members of your team will be dialed-in on April 11. The tests will be from 9-12 and 1-4 PDT.

--We need design suggestions for the t-shirts. Please send them to Cassie and she will post them on the team site for discussion.

--Make sure Cassie has your team picture to put on-line. If it is okay with your school/parents, you can also send the team picture to the St. Louis team and they will post it on the public site with first names only.

--Cassie will send FTP information to the teams so they can access a journal article on FIDO to read and discuss with team members/teacher/mentor.