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MEX VMC - Back on, and online! |
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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Nov 24 2009, 12:18 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 27-August 08 From: Darmstadt, Germany Member No.: 4320 |
We're certainly seeing some interesting cloud dynamics during this "crescent season" on VMC...as always you are our scientists and investigators on VMC so if you want to submit any analysis or favourites please e-mail us and we can add it to the site!
I also wanted to flag that we've got some great observations that just took place and some more coming up. First off...for the next few months the time between image capture and dump to earth (which triggers the website upload) will be reduced by a lot. Some images have gone online within a couple of hours of being dumped! We've also got some lower altitude images, such as these two observations: http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/6/912 http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/6/913 These are showing some really nice surface detail, and are being captured with a tightened exposure range and less time in between images. There should be some more coming up soon, including one looking at the limb for cloud activity (although I think you can already begin to see limb clouds in the galleries above). Finally, an apology and an update on the Celestia positioning scripts on the website - these were being based on an old planning reference which is why they were sometimes not matching well with the actual observation. This has been updated now and all recent and coming observations should be correct. I'll try and systematically update the old observations but if there are any particular ones you need do let me know. So should be a fun Christmas for VMC, as always I look forward to your discussions, comments and results! -------------------- |
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