In case you're wondering what I've been up to whilst silent on LJ, here's a link to the robot recon test blog (with some entries by me):
http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/roboticrecon/blog This test has been incredibly interesting, and I think I've learned a lot about how we get data from remote robots. Which is totally sweet! Today is the last day of the test (yes, it's Saturday), so I should probably get ready to go.