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Apr 12 2005, 06:56 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 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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Jun 19 2006, 10:09 PM
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There are two interesting articles in the June 2006 issue of Astronomy and Geophysics: "Venus Express arrives" by Andrew Coates and "Venus: The corona conundrum" by Peter M Grindrod and Trudi Hoogenboom.
Note for those who don't subscribe to A&G: The full Grindrod and Hoogenboom article can be downloaded here (~488 Kb PDF). This post has been edited by AlexBlackwell: Jun 20 2006, 12:21 AM |
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Jun 21 2006, 09:44 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
'Report for Period 11 June to 17 June 2006
During the reporting period, Venus Express experienced its first Safe Mode since launch. This occured on 12 June, DoY 163, at the end of a data recovery action due to a ground station problem on DoY 162.' http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=39400 -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jul 3 2006, 02:13 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
From today's update:
'Activities of Medium Term Planning 003 will start now with great focus on the Earth occultations season that starts on 11 July and will continue till the end of August.' -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jul 12 2006, 01:04 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Monica Talevi just e-mailed me...There are news from Venus, stay alert:
"Have a look to website this afternoon: we are about to post a new science release on Venus Express!" -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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