(183 providence) mmm

one of the things i do at work is serve as the program scientist for the moon mineralogy mapper, an instrument on chandrayaan-1, india's first mission to the moon.

i'm at brown university this week for the mmm science team meeting and it's reminding me how fun science is. they have scientists here who were heavily involved in the apollo program and there are cases and cases of rocks + space kitch. i suspect if i had been exposed to this kind of thing when i were an impressionable young kid, i would have developed a passion for it.

as it is, all i can think about at this meeting is how to turn these data they're discussing into music.