ESA Rosetta, news, updates and discussion |
ESA Rosetta, news, updates and discussion |
Apr 15 2005, 08:20 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
Well Rosetta isn't going to get to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Chury) till 2014, but it's not to early to set up a thread. There are a bunch of earth fly-bys, a Mars encounter at 200km in 2007 and a few asteriod passes. Not to mention the mission to land on the comet itself.
Only another nine and a half years to go. |
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Mar 13 2007, 10:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Emily has some new info in her blog installment:
QUOTE Speaking of high-phase observations, I have found out that Rosetta succeeded in acquiring high-phase (that is to say, crescent-phase) views of Mars as it exited the Mars system during its flyby. However, there was a wrinkle that I wasn't aware of: the head scientist on the camera instrument, Horst Uwe Keller, told me that most of the observations during that period were designed to see detail on the nightside atmosphere of Mars, meaning that any part of Mars that was daylit will be quite overexposed. So the pictures may not be as beautiful as I had hoped. Still, they would be unusual, so I do hope to see some released someday. I suggested a while earlier that maybe the crescent images weren't spectacular for them to merit public release. Seems this might be the case after all. -------------------- |
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