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Aug 22 2008, 01:58 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I heard about this 24 hours ago, and couldn't believe it - this is EXACTLY what has been missing from ESA. MASSIVE kudos to the ESOC MEX flight ops team for doing it
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/VMC/index.html The last time I wrote a post and hit 'submit' at UMSF with a smile this big on my face, was when Oppy successfully got out of Purgatory. |
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Sep 22 2008, 02:31 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 27-August 08 From: Darmstadt, Germany Member No.: 4320 |
Hi all, looks like some brilliant work is going on as usual - once again my congratulations on pulling so much from the VMC images! Just by way of a quick ops update, we've got another two or three nice observations which should be going online soon, some with some interesting linear(ish) surface brightness features you might be interested in checking out.
For the things that have been posted here - first off, Doug - the spinning volcanoes - would love to post that on the VMC website, if you could just add the information that's at the bottom of the "Help us with VMC" page and stick that on an e-mail to us that would be great on the site. For the clouds work that you've been doing Mike - it's a really interesting study into our little "Cloud Factory" that we've found. I don't know how much longer we'll stay over this area - I guess the orbit evolution will move us away eventually. When you've got enough info though if you want to put your animations, images and plots together with text explaining all you've found and maybe referencing other texts, we could post an article on the VMC website about the VMC cloud factory at Terra Cimmeria! -------------------- |
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