Moon Images By SMART-1 |
Moon Images By SMART-1 |
Jan 20 2005, 02:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
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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Apr 7 2005, 11:29 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Just checked the specs for Amie - and yes - it is a 1024 x 1024 CCD, so the concept of Cproto would not work - the only way to get higher resolution would be to get lower.
MRO could, technically, be commanded to do a motion-compensation technique to get higher than 30cm downrange resolution. How succesfull it would be, I dont know. Frankly - the data output from HiRISE is so enormous - I'm not sure if the supporting electronics would be able to cope, but I'm sure the same was said of MOC before they tried. Doug |
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Apr 7 2005, 02:30 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 7 2005, 11:29 AM) Just checked the specs for Amie - and yes - it is a 1024 x 1024 CCD, so the concept of Cproto would not work - the only way to get higher resolution would be to get lower. MRO could, technically, be commanded to do a motion-compensation technique to get higher than 30cm downrange resolution. How succesfull it would be, I dont know. Frankly - the data output from HiRISE is so enormous - I'm not sure if the supporting electronics would be able to cope, but I'm sure the same was said of MOC before they tried. Doug Another problem is that given that MRO won't be circling Mars any slower than MGS, to do CPROTO would result in incredibly short integration times, which might lead to images that are badly underexposed. And I don't know if MRO is stable enough to support such resolution. -------------------- |
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