In February 1951, the Sunday Express printed a piece extolling the virtues of a Colonial Service career, under the headline: ‘Sanders of the River, Still the Best Job for a British Boy’. This article explores the ideological and practical reasons why Sanders of the River, a character apparently so at odds with the post-Second World War Colonial Service message, continued to hold enough cultural resonance that it was considered appropriate to utilize him as a recruitment tool in 1951. Edgar Wallace's literary creation occupied a defining place in metropolitan understandings of the Colonial Service's work. Yet, by 1951, the ideological aims of the colonial project were changing. Sanders's paternalism had been dismissed in favour of a rhetoric that emphasized partnership and progress. The post-1945 district officer was expected to be a modern administrator, ready to work alongside educated Africans to prepare Britain's colonies for self-government. Exploring both Colonial Office recruitment strategies and recruits’ career motivations, this article situates the often ignored issue of Colonial Service recruitment at the end of empire within a wider cultural context to illuminate why, even as many turned away from careers in empire after 1945, a significant number of young Britons continued to apply.

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<p>The origins of the martian moons Phobos and Deimos remain enigmatic. Over the past decades a range of spacecraft have observed Phobos and Deimos in order to constrain their origin and evolutionary history, with proposals for their origins ranging from captured asteroids, to coalesced material from a giant impact on Mars. However, given the orbits these spacecraft and the orbits of Phobos and Deimos, Phobos has garnered the majority of the attention. Now thanks to the unique orbit of the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) Hope spacecraft and a minor correction to its nominal science orbit, EMM has a unique opportunity to examine Deimos in great detail while fully retaining the originally designed mission to capture the variability in the martian atmosphere and exosphere.</p> <p>Following a minor orbital adjustment maneuver campaign beginning in August 2022, EMM will encounter Deimos multiple times, progressively observing the martian moon at lower and lower distances beginning in early 2023. These flybys culminate in the closest approach of ~150 km, observing the mostly illuminated, far side of Deimos. All three EMM instruments, the Emirates eXploration Imager (EXI), the Emirates Mars Infrared Spectrometer (EMIRS), and the Emirates Ultraviolet Spectrometer (EMUS) have observation sequences tailored to these flybys, collecting the highest resolution multispectral visible imaging data, thermal infrared surface temperatures and emission spectra, and ultraviolet spectra.  When combined these instrument observations will provide key insights into the composition, morphology, and surface physical properties of the least studied martian moon, Deimos.</p>

<p>The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) has a unique opportunity to observe the surface of Deimos, the smaller and outermost of the two moons of Mars. The origins of both Phobos and Deimos remain debated largely due to lack of available observations. The elliptical orbit of the EMM spacecraft, designed to provide comprehensive coverage of the martian atmosphere, allows for campaigns to periodically observe the moon. The slight adjustment of the orbit to move into a resonance with Deimos permits nominal science to continue. The campaign began in August of 2022 by undertaking a series of maneuvers to enable several flybys each stepping in and progressively attaining a closer distance to Deimos. Here, we will present the images collected by EXI of the targeted flyby (e.g., the flyby wherein the spacecraft achieves its closest distance to the moon). Observations for each flyby will include an initial image set at the start of the approach (red/green/blue/320 nm/260 nm), red images will be acquired at 1 min intervals during the approach, and when the spacecraft is at the closest point to Deimos a red/green/blue image set at full resolution, as well as a 320 nm image binned at 2×2 pixels, will be acquired. As the spacecraft leaves Deimos, the reverse observation strategy will be employed. These observations will help constrain the short-wavelength spectral properties and further characterize the geomorphology of this relatively understudied martian moon.</p>