Moon Images By SMART-1 |
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Jan 20 2005, 02:45 PM
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SMART-1 is approaching its operational orbit. ESA has released some images of the Moon on this page:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=36358 -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Mar 3 2006, 09:13 PM
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I kind of doubt that. The thing to keep in mind about SMART-1 is that it's really quite a high-altitude lunar orbiter, and its camera's lens is quite small. All its photos were bound to be wide-angle, low-resolution shots that really didn't show us anything we haven't seen before. (It is, after all, an engineering test mission; its science output is optional.) I've always thought that the really interesting data from it will all come from its near-IR and X-ray spectrometers -- the former has never been done from lunar orbit at all, and the latter has never been done from a polar orbit.
When push comes to shove, when the ESA launches something, it usually works. |
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