What Will This Mission Accomplish Others Won't? |
What Will This Mission Accomplish Others Won't? |
Jan 10 2005, 09:05 PM
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I heard this mission has an extremely high-resolution camera, but don't MGS and Mars Express as well? I know it also has some kind of radar sounder to search for water beneath the surface, but doesn't Mars Express have something like that too? The only instrument I found that hasn't been flown before is one for measuring climate that I think was lost on the Mars Climate Orbiter.
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Jan 12 2005, 10:41 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 12 2005, 09:49 AM) -That image is colour - so it's not the b'n'w high res camera - The Olympus Mons Calderra is 60km across - which at 2.3m/pixel is 26000 pixels across - and that image would be more like 31000 Give those factors - and the size of the image being 3100 across - it's a typo - there shouldnt be a . between the 2 and the 3 Doug, you are absolutely right........about the low-res picture in the link. ( This picture is on page 71 in the book ) But the picture I am talking about ( on page 70 ) is, as I stated, the HIGHRES companion of that Olympus Mons link. So....No, the . between the 2 and 3 is no typo. |
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