Venus Express |
Venus Express |
Apr 12 2005, 06:56 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4405 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
If all goes well, Venus Express will be a major topic for discussion in this forum a year from now. Does anyone know how good the surface coverage will be from VIRTIS and VMC? My understanding is that VIRTIS will obtain low resolution multispectral maps, and that VMC will, in addition to cloud monitoring, have one channel that can see the surface, but I don't know at what resolution or at what quality. It will be nice to have some non-radar images of Venus' surface besides the Venera snapshots and the shadowy images from Earth and Galileo's NIMS.
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Nov 9 2005, 05:02 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Argh! Is that second Fregat burn happening or not?
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Nov 9 2005, 05:16 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
From Spaceflightnow.com
0514 GMT (12:14 a.m. EST) T+plus 1 hour, 41 minutes. By this point in the flight the Fregat should have completed its burn and then released Venus Express. We're awaiting confirmation from ESA that these events have occurred successfully. -------------------- |
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Nov 9 2005, 05:19 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 7-May 05 Member No.: 380 |
From http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=38243
Fregat second stage has successfully fired and place Venus Express to an escape trajectory |
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