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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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QUOTE Venus Orbit Insertion on April 11, 2006." And Public won't see any data till August. Ya ya I know I'm bad. ![]() |
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QUOTE (Decepticon @ Nov 9 2005, 12:03 AM) But ESA will claim important new discoveries sooner than that. It's sad, but my elation over the purpose of the mission is so moderated by the fact that it's ESA doing the data release. I think we just need to psychologically prepare ourselves as though this were a 2008 mission and be happy to see the results trickle in eventually. |
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QUOTE (JRehling @ Nov 9 2005, 07:39 PM) But ESA will claim important new discoveries sooner than that. It's sad, but my elation over the purpose of the mission is so moderated by the fact that it's ESA doing the data release. I think we just need to psychologically prepare ourselves as though this were a 2008 mission and be happy to see the results trickle in eventually. Are you meaning that ESA's data policy is not the right one? Maybe JAXA's is better... |
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QUOTE (Sedna @ Nov 10 2005, 12:38 AM) Are you meaning that ESA's data policy is not the right one? It's certainly not good enough - that is without doubt. Doug |
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QUOTE (djellison @ Nov 10 2005, 11:48 AM) Spacecrafts are flying labs, not handy cameras to take snapshots to be shown worldwide on the run... Data have to be received, processed, verified... That's not so spectacular as NASA's rovers landing on Mars, for instance, but that's what science is... B.T.W., Huygens lander's policy was not very different to Spirit's or Opportunity's... |
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QUOTE (Sedna @ Nov 10 2005, 11:05 PM) Spacecrafts are flying labs, not handy cameras to take snapshots to be shown worldwide on the run... Data have to be received, processed, verified... That's not so spectacular as NASA's rovers landing on Mars, for instance, but that's what science is... B.T.W., Huygens lander's policy was not very different to Spirit's or Opportunity's... I know all of that, more than well enough. The Huygens policy is very different to the rovers. We are almost 12 months from landing, and the full instrument data set is not online. If it were MER, it would have been online for 6 months already. MSSS and Themis team offer a useable, intuitive interface for Mars Orbiter data, the MEX HRSC data is almost unuseable and barely accesable. ESA press releases are infrequent, inaccurate and often make idiotic claims that are untrue and unfounded. It's not just an image releasing strategy that ESA lacks by a long long way Doug |
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