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By Emily Lakdawalla

Ustream webcast Wednesday July 2 at 19:00 UTC: How to Be an Armchair Planetary Scientist

Jun. 30, 2008 | 21:58 PDT | Jul. 1 04:58 UTC

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Please join me Wednesday at noon my time for my next Ustream broadcast. I'm going to do something different this time: I'll start out my broadcast by giving the presentation I gave to the workshop at the Astronomy Society of the Pacific meeting on "How to Be an Armchair Planetary Scientist." This is about how you -- yes, you! -- can participate in the ongoing drama of Earth's exploration of the solar system by playing with the images returned here by planetary spacecraft.

I've just installed some software that should let me show my slides over the Webcam feed, but you'll see them at higher resolution if you download and run the PowerPoint presentation (7 MB) on your own computer and follow along as I babble. I've saved it in "PowerPoint slideshow format" which, if I understand things correctly, should mean that you can view it on your computer even if you don't have PowerPoint installed. I just tried to download it myself, and stupid Explorer wanted to give it a "ppt" extension but it should have a "pps" extension, so if you use Explorer, fix that when you download it. Firefox kept the "pps" extension correctly. (I love it when Microsoft products can't deal with other Microsoft products correctly.)

I hope to see you on Wednesday! And if you're there, PLEASE remind me to hit the "record" button...

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