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Here's Looking At You, Kid, MGS Sees Mars Odyssey and Mars Express

lyford View Member Profile	May 19 2005, 07:39 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124	Sweet! http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/05/19/index.html -------------------- Lyford Rome "Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test

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djellison View Member Profile	May 22 2005, 05:43 PM Post #2
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	There are two WA cams on MOC - but they're almost identical - one is red, one is blue, they both have approx 140deg FOV, and about 3500 pixel CCD's. The context images are simply using the middle 400 or so pixels of the Red WA camera (thus the 250ish m/pixel resolution) Doug

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lyford Here's Looking At You, Kid May 19 2005, 07:39 PM

djellison And to think - I'm giving a talk that includes... May 19 2005, 07:41 PM

um3k That's awesome! May 19 2005, 08:43 PM

Bob Shaw I wonder whether MGS could image the derelicts orb... May 19 2005, 09:18 PM

jamescanvin Wow I never thorght I'd see anything like t... May 20 2005, 03:13 AM

garybeau QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ May 19 2005, 04:18 PM)I won... May 22 2005, 01:04 AM

Bob Shaw It certainly wouldn't be *easy*, but the MGS g... May 22 2005, 11:17 AM

garybeau Here's a bit of info on the difficulty MGS had... May 22 2005, 04:13 PM

Bob Shaw The way that planetary atmospheres behave can be c... May 22 2005, 07:45 PM

garybeau Thanks for all the info, I guess with a 140 deg. F... May 22 2005, 10:31 PM

Bob Shaw As MGS nears the end of it's lifetime there ap... May 23 2005, 10:38 AM

paxdan stunning. they imaged mars express too May 20 2005, 11:50 AM

Bob Shaw Of course, the *first* spacecraft to image another... May 20 2005, 10:41 PM

akuo QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ May 20 2005, 10:41 PM)Of co... May 20 2005, 10:56 PM

Bob Shaw Nope - Beagle 2 was certainly in orbit of Mars... May 20 2005, 11:05 PM

djellison QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ May 20 2005, 11:05 PM)Nope ... May 20 2005, 11:18 PM

Bob Shaw Doug: I thought Mars Express was in an initial or... May 20 2005, 11:36 PM

ElkGroveDan QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ May 20 2005, 10:41 PM)Of co... May 20 2005, 10:59 PM

Bob Shaw No, you're still in orbit, it's just that ... May 20 2005, 11:03 PM

akuo Come to think of this, the Viking craft did enter ... May 20 2005, 11:27 PM

djellison Viking 1 & 2, and Russias Mars 2, 3 and 5 all ... May 20 2005, 11:30 PM

djellison QUOTE 19th Dec:08:31 GMT:Eject command sent to Mar... May 21 2005, 12:11 AM

Bob Shaw Doug (et al): I was wrong about Mars Express ente... May 21 2005, 01:15 PM

edstrick The 1971 Soviet Mars missions included a cosmos ... May 21 2005, 02:52 AM

tedstryk The Soviet Mars orbiters released their landers be... May 21 2005, 03:43 AM

edstrick The Soviet planetary series consisted of poorly do... May 21 2005, 07:52 AM

Analyst MGS has wide angle cameras as well. One medium (or... May 22 2005, 05:19 PM

djellison There are two WA cams on MOC - but they're alm... May 22 2005, 05:43 PM

Analyst I always thought the two cameras are different, be... May 22 2005, 06:57 PM

djellison Much-info... http://www.msss.com/mars/observer/ca... May 22 2005, 07:44 PM

ilbasso The other difficulty is getting the viewing geomet... May 23 2005, 10:37 AM

djellison Not to mention it's also quite usefull practic... May 23 2005, 11:29 AM

garybeau I did manage to find a couple of tidbits about the... May 24 2005, 10:16 PM

ElkGroveDan QUOTE (garybeau @ May 24 2005, 10:16 PM)I did... May 25 2005, 03:20 AM

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