Venus Express |
Venus Express |
Apr 12 2005, 06:56 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4405 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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Apr 21 2005, 05:53 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 33 Joined: 22-December 04 Member No.: 128 |
To the powers that be, thank you for creating this forum. It is the first I heard of this mission.
I am fascinated by Venus and looking forward to it now. It sounds like they are interested in studying the atmosphere extensively. Some of the questions they want to answer: "What are the global characteristics of the atmosphere?" "How does it circulate?" "How does the composition of the atmosphere change with depth?" "How does the atmosphere interact with the surface?" "How does the upper atmosphere interact with the solar wind?" The understanding and possible control/conversion of greenhouse gasses on Venus could directly benefit us on Earth. Terraform Mars? Too easy; I say we go for Venus! Here are some excellent Magellan images of the surface. http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/images.html |
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