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 Aug 22 2008, 01:58 PM
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I heard about this 24 hours ago, and couldn't believe it - this is EXACTLY what has been missing from ESA. MASSIVE kudos to the ESOC MEX flight ops team for doing it
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/VMC/index.html The last time I wrote a post and hit 'submit' at UMSF with a smile this big on my face, was when Oppy successfully got out of Purgatory. |
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djellison MEX VMC - Back on, and online! Aug 22 2008, 01:58 PM
Tman The VMC public gallery has opened http://www.esa.i... Aug 26 2008, 07:16 PM Stu In advance of him joining UMSF I've been asked... Aug 27 2008, 04:13 PM ormstont Thanks to Stu for passing on the message, I'm ... Aug 27 2008, 07:18 PM
Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (ormstont @ Aug 27 2008, 09:18 PM) ... Aug 28 2008, 11:29 AM imipak I'm only an "armchair UMSFer", with ... Aug 27 2008, 09:10 PM Juramike Here is an GIF animation I made from a sequence of... Aug 28 2008, 04:57 AM ormstont Phobos and Deimos would both be fun targets, the b... Aug 28 2008, 02:15 PM chiron Hi everybody
I worked the last days on a program ... Aug 29 2008, 11:07 AM tedstryk I had a go at the July 29, 2008 dataset. Man, thi... Aug 29 2008, 02:03 PM ormstont Tough stuff to work with indeed makes it all the ... Aug 29 2008, 05:41 PM tedstryk Thanks! I am headed out on vacation, but I wi... Aug 29 2008, 06:42 PM Juramike Assembled mosaic from June 22, 2008 series of imag... Aug 30 2008, 02:24 AM Juramike Handy little guide and detailed explanation of the... Aug 30 2008, 03:56 AM JTN QUOTE (Juramike @ Aug 30 2008, 04:56 AM) ... Aug 30 2008, 04:15 PM Paolo Amoroso It would be useful for the VMC site to have an RSS... Aug 31 2008, 01:49 PM ormstont Sorry for being a bit quiet - as you can probably ... Sep 4 2008, 03:56 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (ormstont @ Sep 4 2008, 05:56 PM) I... Sep 5 2008, 03:11 PM Stu re your "mystery object"...
Perhaps...? Sep 4 2008, 06:43 PM ormstont Definitely hoping for Martians (then we'd have... Sep 5 2008, 11:26 AM ormstont Ok...image gallery is online on the website, along... Sep 5 2008, 02:54 PM djellison That is unusual. At first I thought it might be a... Sep 5 2008, 03:10 PM Stu I may be wrong (probably am) but think this might ... Sep 5 2008, 03:17 PM remcook cool, looks like a volcano eruption it's not ... Sep 5 2008, 03:40 PM ustrax I've been far away for so long that I've b... Sep 5 2008, 03:55 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (ustrax @ Sep 5 2008, 05:55 PM) [..... Sep 5 2008, 04:09 PM ustrax In this specific image it looks to me that the sha... Sep 5 2008, 05:02 PM Stu How about a meteoroid impact that sent up a big du... Sep 5 2008, 03:57 PM ustrax I'm here...
This is what I mean:
Looks to... Sep 5 2008, 04:06 PM ormstont Just to put my two cents in, you're right that... Sep 5 2008, 05:53 PM ustrax dear Ormstont, I am sorry to be a bit limited in t... Sep 6 2008, 10:12 AM ugordan It definitely appears to be atmospheric as the sha... Sep 6 2008, 07:02 PM Juramike Nice animation, Gordan!
As you've shown, ... Sep 6 2008, 07:40 PM ustrax QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 6 2008, 08:02 PM) It... Sep 6 2008, 08:11 PM ugordan QUOTE (ustrax @ Sep 6 2008, 10:11 PM) the... Sep 6 2008, 08:43 PM TheChemist QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 6 2008, 11:43 PM) Yo... Sep 6 2008, 08:47 PM ustrax QUOTE (TheChemist @ Sep 6 2008, 09:47 PM)... Sep 6 2008, 09:21 PM ugordan QUOTE (ustrax @ Sep 6 2008, 11:21 PM) Now... Sep 6 2008, 09:23 PM ustrax QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 6 2008, 10:23 PM) Co... Sep 6 2008, 09:27 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 6 2008, 09:02 PM) It... Sep 6 2008, 08:12 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (Paolo Amoroso @ Sep 6 2008, 10:12 ... Sep 7 2008, 02:40 PM ugordan Here's a new version of VMC2RGB, this time imp... Sep 8 2008, 09:50 PM siravan QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 6 2008, 02:02 PM) Ba... Sep 6 2008, 11:08 PM ugordan Yep, it appears I messed up the calculation of (at... Sep 6 2008, 11:39 PM stevesliva Does fog cast a shadow? Would it be forming above... Sep 8 2008, 10:18 PM ormstont Ok...more info on our strange cloud...we've go... Sep 11 2008, 10:08 AM remcook yes, I think 80 km is a normal altitude for these ... Sep 11 2008, 11:41 AM ormstont Wow...you beat me to posting the link I've ju... Sep 11 2008, 01:45 PM elakdawalla I'd like to include one of the VMC crescent im... Sep 12 2008, 09:38 PM ugordan All 2008 crescents indeed appear to be severely ov... Sep 12 2008, 11:36 PM ormstont So, looks like our other MEX instrument teams are ... Sep 13 2008, 07:20 PM ugordan I'd be interested in knowing what the difficul... Sep 13 2008, 07:24 PM ormstont Well, part of the difficulty is that we have no wa... Sep 13 2008, 08:23 PM ugordan QUOTE (ormstont @ Sep 13 2008, 10:23 PM) ... Sep 13 2008, 08:41 PM Tman QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 13 2008, 10:41 PM) A... Sep 13 2008, 10:27 PM Paolo Amoroso QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 13 2008, 10:41 PM) I... Sep 14 2008, 09:54 AM ormstont Ok, get what you're going for there - the only... Sep 14 2008, 11:21 AM ugordan I don't personally think a dark frame would be... Sep 14 2008, 05:43 PM jekbradbury I am trying to organize the images by position in ... Sep 14 2008, 08:57 PM ormstont QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 14 2008, 07:43 PM) T... Sep 15 2008, 08:06 AM jekbradbury That was exactly what I was looking for. Taking i... Sep 16 2008, 01:56 AM Juramike I finally downloaded Celestia (slaps head, why did... Sep 16 2008, 04:21 AM Juramike Interesting how both the "mystery cloud... Sep 16 2008, 04:30 AM ormstont QUOTE (jekbradbury @ Sep 16 2008, 03:56 A... Sep 16 2008, 08:12 AM Juramike It's baaaack!
Another cloud sequence at s... Sep 17 2008, 04:43 AM ormstont Interesting that we might have a cloud factory on ... Sep 17 2008, 09:59 AM ormstont Just a quick plug - got some more lovely shots fro... Sep 17 2008, 02:42 PM Juramike The thing that's been puzzling me is the appea... Sep 17 2008, 02:51 PM djellison I love this camera. Sep 17 2008, 03:07 PM Juramike Here is an attempted mosaic of the "relativel... Sep 18 2008, 04:31 AM Juramike There are few guarantees in life...
but finding cl... Sep 20 2008, 04:01 AM dvandorn I seem to recall that clouds have been observed ov... Sep 20 2008, 07:10 AM Juramike My surprise isn't the clouds forming over high... Sep 20 2008, 02:51 PM Juramike Animated GIF showing the September 7, 2008 sunrise... Sep 21 2008, 04:27 AM Juramike Montage showing the sunrise clouds near Bjerknes C... Sep 22 2008, 03:02 AM ormstont Hi all, looks like some brilliant work is going on... Sep 22 2008, 02:31 PM ormstont Ok...new images are up on the site! That stran... Sep 24 2008, 08:21 PM djellison What happened? Nothing in nearly a month. Nov 1 2008, 06:24 PM ormstont Hi! Sorry for the downtime for a while - we do... Nov 10 2008, 10:29 AM elakdawalla Thanks very much for the update. I do look forwar... Nov 10 2008, 05:45 PM ormstont Thanks for the offer! I think we should be abl... Nov 11 2008, 03:41 PM ormstont Ok...we're officially offline for the time bei... Dec 8 2008, 04:34 PM ormstont Hi again! The Mars Express VMC is back! We... Mar 25 2009, 08:56 AM jaredGalen Wonderful!! And its great news about the n... Mar 25 2009, 10:16 AM ormstont Glad you like it, I've updated my signature no... Mar 25 2009, 12:27 PM Juramike Hmmm. I am unable to get any of the MEX VMC Celes... Apr 6 2009, 01:06 AM maschnitz QUOTE (Juramike @ Apr 5 2009, 06:06 PM) F... Apr 6 2009, 07:36 AM Juramike Thank you! That did the trick!!
-Mik... Apr 6 2009, 11:24 AM Juramike I took the March 19th images and masked out the ov... Apr 7 2009, 03:02 AM Juramike It is almost possible to correlate the processed M... Apr 7 2009, 03:15 AM remcook Are you sure there's not some Venus Express da... Apr 7 2009, 07:16 AM ormstont Hi all!
Thanks once more to Mike for his grea... Apr 7 2009, 08:59 AM Juramike QUOTE (ormstont @ Apr 7 2009, 03:59 AM) (... Apr 7 2009, 11:12 AM Juramike April 9 image enhancement of what I think might be... Apr 11 2009, 09:28 PM Juramike [Alternatively, I guess that dark spot above could... Apr 11 2009, 09:38 PM Juramike The May 2009 MEX VMC images are all nicely taken a... Jun 13 2009, 01:39 PM Juramike Here is a rotation sequence study of the May 27-Ma... Jun 13 2009, 01:45 PM Fran Ontanaya A cool one from a couple weeks ago:
http://webser... Aug 3 2009, 07:10 PM Juramike MEX VMC image of a possible cloud or bright albedo... Aug 29 2009, 07:13 PM Juramike The July 11 2009 MEX VMC image shows the cloud nea... Aug 30 2009, 09:15 PM Juramike Latest images show a large cloud complex and a cut... Sep 3 2009, 07:03 PM  |
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