Venus Express and MESSENGER simultaneous observations |
Venus Express and MESSENGER simultaneous observations |
Jul 13 2007, 04:32 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I thought this deserved its own topic...ESA just posted some images and a story on observations taken during the MESSENGER flyby. I assume we'll see a NASA / APL post later on the same topic.
Venusian rendezvous results: chapter one Some interesting images here; I was quite surprised by the excellent match between the VIRTIS thermal image and the Magellan radar image. Looks like they're zeroing in on how to process those surface images! --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jul 13 2007, 07:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 125 Joined: 18-July 05 Member No.: 438 |
Wouldn't they get a better match with the VIRTIS data if the scaling of the Magellan altimetry data was inverted here? Looks like the bright areas in one are dark in the other, and vice-versa, or am I wrong?
Low-res shaded relief of the same Magellan altimetry (rather than SAR) data here: http://www.solarviews.com/raw/venus/topoven2.jpg |
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