Galileo images and mosaics of Europa |
Galileo images and mosaics of Europa |
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![]() Interplanetary Dumpster Diver ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 ![]() |
I have worked on sprucing up some global views of Europa from Galileo. There are a few more global views I hope to get to eventually. But the best two at nearly full phase benefited a lot.
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I can help with this little bit
![]() Actually my new blog entry (planned) is about stereoscopic images from this mosaic. That mosaic has "only" supporting role (but at the end, it is better than I expected). I think, that some cliffs are significantly more than 100 meters high and some are nearly vertical. Little preview: -------------------- |
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Yes - and this is evident from the fact that the instruments are clearly optimized for close flybys only. For example, the camera has a field of view of 50 degrees (or something similar; I don't remember the exact number). After reading the orbiter and flyby PDFs I'd prefer flying the orbiter first, mainly because of my interest in a Galileo 2 style mission (there is no chance of a mission like that in the near future but no one knows what things are going to be like 10-20 years from now). Despite my interest in a 'Galileo 2', I think splitting the mission into an orbiter and a flyby spacecraft makes a lot of sense. The orbiter then becomes a Europa-specialized element.
One thing though: It now seems that ESA may do something 'Galileo 2-like' with JUICE (if that mission gets selected). I can help with this little bit ![]() Actually my new blog entry (planned) is about stereoscopic images from this mosaic. That mosaic has "only" supporting role (but at the end, it is better than I expected). I think, that some cliffs are significantly more than 100 meters high and some are nearly vertical. Little preview: I agree with Ted that the Galileo team performed a miracle in salvaging science but one of the consequences of the HGA failure is still that there is very limited stereo coverage of the Galileans (compare this with Cassini where there is a lot of stereo coverage for all of the icy satellites - for e.g. Rhea the coverage is global). So how are you getting stereoscopic images of Conamara Chaos? I don't think there's any stereo coverage there although I need to check this more carefully. This terrain was imaged during the E6 and E12 flybys and the viewing geometry was different but unfortunately the lighting geometry was different too so I don't think E6 and E12 can be used as stereo pairs (maybe I should try it though just in case). |
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