Bright spot on Venus |
Bright spot on Venus |
Jul 30 2009, 09:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
space.com story on mysterious cloud brightening on Venus:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0907...right-spot.html ...also spotted by an amateur astronomer. -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Aug 5 2009, 07:24 AM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
"We know Hubble had been packed solid with use requests and that it was still capable of being re-tasked to get Jupiter images within a week of the first detection of the impact on old Jove."
I suspect it might have been more hard to do if the instrument was already in proper science phase. But perhaps someone would have been willing to give up time... For Cassini I remember there was a re-design after discovery of Enceladus' plumes by the magnetometer. There were 4 months in between the flybys and I think this was an 'all hands on deck' kind of moment. Maybe John Spencer can tell more about this? The manpower for VEX is a lot smaller, but I suspect if there was really something big going on it would in principle be possible to change the design within a month or so if people put in all efforts (cndwrld?). I'm not sure it makes sense changing the designs in this case since VMC has a whole globe view at least every orbit. I wouldn't be surprised if they saw the entire atmosphere every orbit. What would you change in the observations and is it worth the extra manpower? |
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