Venus Express: One Year in Orbit, Symposium at the 2007 EGU General Assembly |
Venus Express: One Year in Orbit, Symposium at the 2007 EGU General Assembly |
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Jan 3 2007, 07:37 PM
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Forwarding an email that was sent out today by Dmitri Titov, Venus Express PI. Cross reference with this UMSF thread.
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Jan 15 2007, 03:01 PM
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QUOTE Well, with Giotto and MEx there have been issues with slow and awkward releases, but Venus Express really takes the cake. I mean, I hope it is accomplishing great things, but at this point it is more an idea rooted in faith than in known results. What I do wonder about, and what bothers me greatly, is that certain instrument teams, such as the VMC team, have sites that look like they were designed to display a lot of results, but haven't been used. It makes me wonder if some sort of an embargo is coming from "on high." I think another issue for ESA is that, unlike NASA, it deals with a lot of national space agencies and labs that often recieve part or all of their funding from their respective countries, not ESA. To be honest, it may also be that the results are just coming in slower. Look at the 'first results' papers: they haven't been published yet. If you compare that to Cassini, who had them published within a year, with many articles coming after that. So it may be that the data is more difficiult to analyse and hence doesn't give many new discoveries. Also, Venus is relatively well known and doesn't have any moons, so the rate of new discoveries that will reach the press will always be lower. Not saying they couldn't have done more on outreach though... And yes, I don't think many scientists are payed by ESA. For american papers you often see in the acknowledgements: NASA grant so-and-so. For Europeans it's mostly a national research council. Still payed by taxpayers of course. |
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