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[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

It looks as if Mike and Phil's efforts have paid off

Deimos!
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1551, 11 August 2006

EDIT: Sorry, Phil, I didn't read all the way to the bottom of the release.

This post has been edited by AlexBlackwell: Aug 11 2006, 05:02 PM

[Guest_Myran_*]

Phil Stooke also get a mentioning on that page, small world(s).

[tedstryk]

Glad to see MOC has now imaged all the members of the "Mars system."

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

Glad to see MOC has now imaged all the members of the "Mars system."

Mike can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the Mars Observer Camera (i.e., MOC1) would have returned even more spectacular views of both martian moons, primarily due to the nature of the descent from elliptical capture orbit to final mapping orbit.

Off topic: Ted, is your signature purposely coded the way it appears?

[mcaplinger]

Mike can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the Mars Observer Camera (i.e., MOC1) would have returned even more spectacular views of both martian moons, primarily due to the nature of the descent from elliptical capture orbit to final mapping orbit.

This might have been true for Phobos, where there was some effort planned to make the "1-day drift orbit" period be an integer multiple of the period of Phobos and so produce a close approach on each orbit. I don't think the Deimos geometry would have been much improved, though.