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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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, 09:01 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 11 2005, 09:02 AM) The MEX high res issue is due to calibration problems - or so Bruce tells me. I'm not sure I buy that - and I'm not sure he does either. I have this book about the 2004 mars missions ( MER, MEX, beagle-2 ): http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3440...2222784-3018130 And on page 70 is the HIGH RESOLUTION companion to this MEX Olympus Mons picture: http://search.esa.int/queryIG.html?col=mmg...&nh=1&lk=3&rf=3 The caption says it has a resolution of 2.3 meters. If it really IS taken by MEX the calibration excuse is nonsense. The image looks fine. The book was published back in april, so ESA had a lot of time to 'calibrate' I would say... It's funny, because the author of this book himself complains about ESA's enormous lack of PR compared to the MER mission. |
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