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 Apr 12 2005, 06:56 PM
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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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Mar 13 2007, 11:11 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 247 Joined: 17-February 07 From: ESAC, cerca Madrid, Spain. Member No.: 1743 |
Let me give a brief update about what I know regarding the publication of VEX science images and information, based on what I've heard over the last few days.
A major issue of Nature has been in planning for some time. It seems like it may come out in May, which would be nice since it would coincide with the one year anniversary of when VEX began routine science operations. Since most efforts now are focused on that paper, any other publications are unlikely until that issue comes out. Getting more PR images out is getting pushed internally. I can't say that comments on this site have been taken into account, necessarily, but they are one factor that has been brought up in discussions. What I'm hearing now is that another PR person has been brought in at ESTEC to help Monica Televaes, and they are hoping to do the following: - upcoming web stories in the end of March, 11 April and end of April. - More information on the Ground based observations campaign will be coming up. There is a process in place to coordinate ground coverage of Venus during VEX observations, with the amatuer community. -Try to do one web story per month, with one team each month. -Try to put out more images in general. It is possible they may fall short of this, but they are at least going to try it. Cheers- Don Merritt -------------------- --
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Mar 13 2007, 03:30 PM
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Don, I could not appreciate your reports more. Thanks so much.
QUOTE (cndwrld @ Mar 13 2007, 04:11 AM)  - More information on the Ground based observations campaign will be coming up. There is a process in place to coordinate ground coverage of Venus during VEX observations, with the amatuer community. That's nice to read. Now that amateurs are combining interesting filters with other advanced techniques, some images of science quality seem to be appearing. Cheers... |
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tedstryk Venus Express Apr 12 2005, 06:56 PM
The Messenger This is encourgaging, but the time lag can be dish... Jun 13 2006, 03:20 PM ljk4-1 Ad astra per bureaucracia. Jun 13 2006, 03:22 PM AlexBlackwell There are two interesting articles in the June 200... Jun 19 2006, 10:09 PM
ustrax 'Report for Period 11 June to 17 June 2006
Du... Jun 21 2006, 09:44 AM ustrax From today's update:
'Activities of Mediu... Jul 3 2006, 02:13 PM ustrax Monica Talevi just e-mailed me...There are news fr... Jul 12 2006, 01:04 PM Rakhir New press release today.
Double vortex at Venus S... Jun 27 2006, 07:21 AM DonPMitchell QUOTE (Rakhir @ Jun 27 2006, 12:21 AM) Ne... Jun 29 2006, 08:32 PM hendric In case there were any other morons like me who co... Jun 29 2006, 08:52 PM The Messenger QUOTE (hendric @ Jun 29 2006, 02:52 PM) I... Jun 29 2006, 09:28 PM elakdawalla I sorted out the images at different wavelengths b... Jun 29 2006, 09:43 PM DonPMitchell Thanks for gathering the images up on your blog. ... Jul 1 2006, 10:38 AM elakdawalla Here it is...lots of nifty new animations!
Fl... Jul 12 2006, 04:25 PM AlexBlackwell QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jul 12 2006, 04:25 P... Jul 12 2006, 04:35 PM ustrax QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jul 12 2006, 05:25 P... Jul 12 2006, 04:41 PM elakdawalla I realize now that these are the pictures that the... Jul 12 2006, 04:52 PM AlexBlackwell QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jul 12 2006, 04:52 P... Jul 12 2006, 05:07 PM elakdawalla QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Jul 12 2006, 10:07... Jul 12 2006, 07:42 PM The Messenger Does anyone have a feel for the mean polarity of t... Jul 12 2006, 05:21 PM DonPMitchell Venus Express is the first time a decent camera ha... Jul 12 2006, 08:55 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jul 12 2006, 09:55 ... Jul 12 2006, 11:44 PM elakdawalla OK, so now I have a question about the images and ... Jul 12 2006, 11:41 PM AlexBlackwell QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jul 12 2006, 01:41 P... Jul 19 2006, 05:02 PM ugordan QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Jul 19 2006, 06:02... Jul 20 2006, 08:51 AM peter59 QUOTE (ugordan @ Jul 20 2006, 08:51 AM) O... Jul 20 2006, 07:33 PM DonPMitchell Emily, I believe you are correct. The "flyin... Jul 13 2006, 12:39 AM DonPMitchell I think ESA is following the standard NASA algorit... Jul 13 2006, 12:51 AM Malmer QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jul 13 2006, 02:51 ... Jul 13 2006, 04:10 PM bdunford A meaty new Venus Express release is now online a... Jul 13 2006, 03:45 AM DonPMitchell In one of the early Venera-13 papers, the Russian ... Jul 13 2006, 08:16 PM Malmer i actually ended up relatively close to the respon... Jul 14 2006, 06:48 PM DonPMitchell VMC is kind of a primitive camera (VMC), but that ... Jul 21 2006, 03:05 AM edstrick Assuming <I hope otherwise> that the PFS sta... Jul 21 2006, 11:07 AM ugordan What guarantee do we have that the backup wouldn... Jul 21 2006, 11:44 AM ustrax QUOTE (cndwrld @ Mar 13 2007, 11:11 AM) W... Mar 13 2007, 12:21 PM djellison They are rapidly approaching the first scheduled P... Mar 13 2007, 11:42 AM dvandorn And we'll likely see that amateur data before ... Mar 13 2007, 04:12 PM lyford QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 13 2007, 08:12 AM) ... Mar 13 2007, 05:04 PM Mongo QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 13 2007, 04:12 PM) ... Mar 13 2007, 10:51 PM helvick The problem is that the amateurs almost certainly ... Mar 14 2007, 08:56 AM cndwrld For those of you interested in the Venus data that... Mar 14 2007, 12:33 PM cndwrld VEX Mission Ops Reporting, 11 - 17 March
At the e... Mar 26 2007, 07:38 AM cndwrld Venus Express: One Year In Orbit
On 11 April 2006... Apr 11 2007, 09:25 AM ugordan Nice, finally some new images and a cool movie... Apr 11 2007, 09:33 AM JRehling It seems like this glow would be invisible to the ... Apr 11 2007, 04:11 PM ngunn QUOTE (JRehling @ Apr 11 2007, 05:11 PM) ... Apr 11 2007, 04:34 PM cndwrld VEX Mission Status
As of 14 April, Venus Express ... Apr 19 2007, 02:44 PM babakm Much appreciated update Don. Apr 19 2007, 04:34 PM cndwrld New VEX Science Information Released
On the ESA S... May 23 2007, 03:53 PM cndwrld Venus Express Status
At the end of the last Cebre... May 25 2007, 01:32 PM The Messenger QUOTE (cndwrld @ May 25 2007, 07:32 AM) I... May 25 2007, 11:13 PM AlexBlackwell Ground - based observatories join forces with Venu... May 25 2007, 07:48 PM cndwrld You're right. The PFS instrument
(http://sci.... May 29 2007, 07:11 AM cndwrld There was some discussion about getting data down ... Jun 21 2007, 01:37 PM brellis hi cndwrld
thanks for providing a window into the... Jun 21 2007, 02:38 PM cndwrld >>Is the storage capacity on V.E. heavily-bu... Jun 22 2007, 07:20 AM dvandorn QUOTE (cndwrld @ Jun 22 2007, 02:20 AM) ... Jun 22 2007, 03:56 PM cndwrld QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jun 22 2007, 05:56 PM) ... Jun 25 2007, 07:33 AM JRehling QUOTE (cndwrld @ Jun 25 2007, 12:33 AM) W... Jun 25 2007, 04:42 PM cndwrld VEX Status, 22 June 2007
At the end of the last C... Jun 22 2007, 08:49 AM Gsnorgathon QUOTE (cndwrld @ Jun 22 2007, 08:49 AM) .... Jun 23 2007, 11:47 PM dvandorn Yes, that answers a lot of my questions -- thanks... Jun 25 2007, 01:35 PM djellison An upgrade for the DSN based on arrays of modest (... Jun 25 2007, 01:53 PM cndwrld VEX Mission Status
Quadrature is the period when ... Jun 29 2007, 01:03 PM lyford Thanks for the update! I always enjoy reading... Jun 29 2007, 05:17 PM cndwrld PFS has delivered their inputs for the Scanner tes... Jul 2 2007, 07:43 AM The Messenger ...so no news is bad news...
The ESA gets kudos... Jul 4 2007, 05:23 AM cndwrld We have a bigger hammer in reserve. This test is d... Jul 4 2007, 07:01 AM cndwrld PFS Still Non-Operational
The PFS scanner was com... Jul 23 2007, 02:37 PM lyford Thanks for the update, though I wish the news was ... Jul 23 2007, 04:27 PM cndwrld I work on an ESA project, but I'm an American.... Jul 24 2007, 07:22 AM lyford I was trying to think of what the football (soccer... Jul 24 2007, 03:00 PM Stu I'm afraid I don't know any European sport... Jul 24 2007, 03:20 PM nprev Based on a casual Google, perhaps ESA might consid... Jul 25 2007, 01:49 AM cndwrld Coordinated observations of Venus between VEX and ... Jul 27 2007, 09:56 AM Rakhir 500 days at Venus, and the surprises keep coming
h... Sep 3 2007, 07:06 PM ustrax QUOTE (Rakhir @ Sep 3 2007, 08:06 PM) 500... Sep 7 2007, 11:41 AM cndwrld Venus Express Status
At the end of the last Cebre... Sep 18 2007, 01:57 PM cndwrld Nature Papers
On 29 November 2007, a special issu... Oct 16 2007, 02:48 PM elakdawalla Hooray hooray hooray! According to what Hakan... Oct 16 2007, 05:01 PM cndwrld Yes, my understanding is that everything is in, ac... Oct 17 2007, 06:50 AM cndwrld Venus Express Status on 30 October 2007
For those... Oct 30 2007, 11:59 AM rlorenz QUOTE (cndwrld @ Oct 30 2007, 07:59 AM) V... Nov 1 2007, 03:17 AM rlorenz QUOTE (rlorenz @ Oct 31 2007, 11:17 PM) A... Nov 1 2007, 03:21 AM nprev Thanks for the update, CND. Sounds like good thing... Oct 30 2007, 06:22 PM helvick QUOTE The results show that we are still
at Venus... Oct 31 2007, 08:39 AM The Messenger There are a few things still orbiting Mars that we... Oct 31 2007, 05:49 PM ustrax QUOTE (The Messenger @ Oct 31 2007, 05:49... Oct 31 2007, 08:53 PM cndwrld I'm at ESTEC now, in Holland. And I am definit... Nov 1 2007, 08:35 AM cndwrld Stellar Occultation Studies at three planets
The ... Nov 7 2007, 08:43 AM cndwrld Eleven VEX Papers On-Line
On the ESA Science and ... Nov 7 2007, 03:50 PM ustrax VMC surface images released. Nov 9 2007, 01:48 PM |
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