My picture from Sol 2, taken with my geology filters and processed by @else_elyse with #ExoSpec

It’s been a great couple of weeks at the ExoFiT trial, with some of my scientists from MullardSpaceScience ABER PHYSICS University of St Andrews @openplanetary and Natural History Museum at control centre RAL Space & my emulator AUPE in the field. Thanks Airbus Space & other instruments!

Sandstone outcrops seen with the ExoMars PanCam emulator planetarygeomorphology.wordpress.com/2018/11/01/san… via WordPress.com

Ooohhhh science! Contact between hydrated light material and darker possibly volcanic layer...#ExoFit19 ExoMars PanCam AUPE

Another day at #ExoFit19 and more beautiful images from AUPE ! #fieldtrial #operations ESA_ExoMars

"Mur Tholus", Imaged on Sol 7 of the #ExoFit19 mission, using an ExoMars PanCam emulator (HRC-AUPE). Blocks on the upper slope are estimated to be ~5 m high, and may be associated with slumping of the hill slope. European Space Agency ESA_ExoMars #Mars Airbus Space

@Steven_Banham ExoMars PanCam AUPE European Space Agency ESA_ExoMars Airbus Space ...and here’s Mul Tholus from the rover resting place at the end of Sol 3, a lifetime ago...

Hello!! #ExoFit19 AUPE ESA_ExoMars

.@LandingEllipse is doing really amazing work with AUPE for ExoMars PanCam!

Well this is exciting! 7 years ago Dr Matt Gunn and I chose the wavelengths and bandwidths for these bad boys, and since then @hesperianlass, @else_elyse, Dr Roger Blue Stabbins (スタビン　ロジェ　ブルー), and S Motaghian have been testing them out with AUPE #nopressure

So many exciting things to see Natural History Museum and I’m locked in the basement... These are more interesting than a lot of the rocks I get to look at though.

I got invited to the ExoMars PanCam science team meeting! Lots of interesting stuff being presented, including some of my holiday pictures 😁

I got to take pictures of something other than rocks! Maybe an alternative career once I’ve finished my ExoMars work?

Is that where we’re going! Couldn’t someone have fitted me with a microphone - I won’t be able to listen to the music...

I’m joined at bluedot by special guest AUPE 🤖 visit us in Mission Control to find out about how this globetrotting emulator has been helping scientists develop techniques for analysing and processing the images that will be taken by the real ExoMars PanCam

I see calibration targets - lots of calibration targets! I don’t see any rocks for a change and I have no idea what’s going on. Still, I’m out of my box and it’s warm and dry so I’m not complaining.

What I did on my summer holidays. For some reason I’m not getting to go on any exciting holidays this year...