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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Mars Express & Beagle 2 _ MARSIS software upgrade to increase data return

Posted by: JTN Jun 23 2022, 09:15 AM

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Software_upgrade_for_19-year-old_martian_water-spotter

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The new software [...] includes a series of upgrades that improve signal reception and on-board data processing to increase the amount and quality of science data sent to Earth [...] “By discarding data that we don’t need [on-board], the new software allows us to switch MARSIS on for five times as long and explore a much larger area with each pass.”

Posted by: bobik Sep 20 2022, 11:01 AM

This week, on September 23rd at around http://spice.esac.esa.int/webgeocalc/#StateVector, Mars Express will make a flyby of Phobos with a closest approach distance of about 94 km. This will be the https://www.media.inaf.it/2022/07/07/marsis-il-cacciatore-dacqua-si-aggiorna/ to use the new https://esoc.esa.int/content/software-upgrade-19-year-old-martian-water-spotter (SSP) operating mode of the https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2004ESASP1240...51P (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) instrument.

Posted by: bobik Oct 28 2022, 01:13 PM

Finally, about a month after the event, ESA's PR people take notice of the latest close https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/A_close_encounter_with_a_mysterious_moon.

Posted by: vikingmars Oct 29 2022, 08:22 AM

QUOTE (bobik @ Oct 28 2022, 03:13 PM)

Finally, about a month after the event, ESA's PR people take notice of the latest close https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/A_close_encounter_with_a_mysterious_moon.

Thanks Bobik for this nice info

Well... They did not "take notice". Please, be so kind to note that radar data interpretation is difficult, and especially after some changes were made in softwares.
Remember that observations of Ganymede made by Juno came out at least 6 months after they were made.
So, we should be happy with the time schedule of this press release