Template:Did you know nominations/Emily Lakdawalla


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The result was: promoted by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:51, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Emily Lakdawalla

 * ... that the work of Planetary Society Senior Editor Emily Lakdawalla (pictured) has included testing of unmanned aerial vehicles for use in the atmosphere of Mars?
 * Reviewed: Einer Ulrich

Created by Nmillerche (talk). Self nominated at 02:34, 18 March 2014 (UTC).


 * hmm the article says she investigated a place to test the drones and doesnt mention that she was involved in testing them. Victuallers (talk) 21:38, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Good catch. I think I inadvertently shaved that part off when I was initially trying to keep the hook short enough. Need to be clearer. Thanks. Nmillerche (talk) 22:09, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * ALT1: ... that the work of Planetary Society Senior Editor Emily Lakdawalla (pictured) has included evaluating test sites for unmanned aerial vehicles to be used in the atmosphere of Mars?
 * Thanks - in that case can I suggest Victuallers (talk) 23:09, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * ...ALT2 April 1: ... that Emily Lakdawalla (pictured) of The Planetary Society has identified places where Martian drones can land on Earth?
 * Ha, that's awesome. Linked "drones" to UAVs.Nmillerche (talk) 00:55, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * ALT 2 is great for April 1; other hooks bone-crushingly dull. — Llywelyn II   15:51, 29 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Full review needed in the next couple of days if this is to run on April Fools. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:54, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Article is new enough, long enough, well-referenced. ALT2 offline hook ref AGF and cited inline. QPQ done. However, there is extensive close paraphrasing from her bio at The Planetary Society:
 * Source: At Amherst, she worked with Tekla Harms on her field studies of deformed metasedimentary rocks in northeastern Washington. At Brown, she worked with James W. Head and Marc Parmentier on analysis of Magellan radar images and topographic data in the region of Baltis Vallis, Venus, to determine its deformational history.
 * Article: At Amherst, Lakdawalla worked to study deformed metasedimentary rocks of northeastern Washington. Simultaneously, she worked on research at Brown to analyze Magellan radar images and topographic data in the region of Baltis Vallis, Venus, to determine its deformational history.
 * Source: Emily ran worldwide contests that selected and trained high school students to travel to Pasadena to participate in rover operations training exercises in 2002 and then in actual Mars Exploration Rover mission operations during January and February of 2005.
 * Article: She ran worldwide contests that selected and trained secondary school students to travel to Pasadena, California, to participate in rover operations training exercises in 2002 and then in actual Mars Exploration Rover mission operations during January and February 2005.
 * Source: Meanwhile, Emily first blogged (briefly) for the Society in 2002, as a member of a Society-funded team sent to Devon Island in the Canadian high Arctic to gather data to support future tests of autonomous software for Mars airplanes. She continued to write news articles for the Society's website for the next few years, covering a range of planetary science topics from outer planets to Mars orbiters to asteroid encounters, while also contributing articles to the Society's print publication, The Planetary Report. Another brief blogging effort coincided with the descent of the Huygens probe to Titan in January 2005, which Emily reported on from ESA mission operations in Darmstadt.
 * Article: In 2002, as a member of a Society-funded team sent to Devon Island in the Canadian high Arctic to gather data to support future tests of autonomous software for Mars airplanes, Lakdawalla began writing for the Society's online publications. She continued to write news articles for the Society's website for the next few years, covering a range of planetary science topics from outer planets to Mars orbiters to asteroid encounters, while also contributing articles to the Society's print publication, The Planetary Report. Another brief blogging effort coincided with the descent of the Huygens probe to Titan in January 2005, on which Lakdawalla reported from ESA mission operations in Darmstadt, Germany.
 * Yoninah (talk) 20:27, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Thank you for catching those, Yoninah. I have rephrased the excerpts mentioned above. Additionally, added an additional citation for the hook, as well as a quotation from the offline source, which I hope will be helpful. Nmillerche (talk) 21:45, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thank you, good job! No close paraphrasing seen. Hook ref verified and cited inline. ALT2 good to go for April Fool's Day. Yoninah (talk) 21:59, 30 March 2014 (UTC)