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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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PFS has delivered their inputs for the Scanner test during a wheel off-loading. The tests are to be run over 6 days, during the last three weeks of July.
They'll want to look pretty closely at the data for any signs of movement, and no one is in a hurry to announce bad news. So I wouldn't expect us to get any official word on the result until about mid-August. But that's just my guess. Of course, if the thing actually moves, we'll hear about it in no time. This test is a Hail Mary pass, so I'm not holding my breath. Still, would be nice if it worked. -------------------- --
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