What Will This Mission Accomplish Others Won't? |
What Will This Mission Accomplish Others Won't? |
Jan 10 2005, 09:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 8-June 04 Member No.: 80 |
I heard this mission has an extremely high-resolution camera, but don't MGS and Mars Express as well? I know it also has some kind of radar sounder to search for water beneath the surface, but doesn't Mars Express have something like that too? The only instrument I found that hasn't been flown before is one for measuring climate that I think was lost on the Mars Climate Orbiter.
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Jan 12 2005, 01:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 710 Joined: 28-September 04 Member No.: 99 |
No I don't have a scanner. But I can give you a comparison MOC image I found that covers almost the exact same area.
Look at this MOC strip: http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/e07_e12/im...0/E1003979.html The full-res version has a 'scaled pixel width' of 6.25 meters, but shows a lot more detail than the MEX picture from the book. However, the tiled 'medium-res' version is comparable to the MEX picture: http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/e07_e12/fu...10/E1003979.jpg The picture in the book covers the bottom half of the second strip and the top of the third strip. So, judging from this image, a 2.3 meter MEX image looks something like a 12 meter MGS image. |
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