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Why no VeRa images from VEX ?, I remember Magellan's radar pics
GravityWaves
post Apr 12 2007, 08:21 AM
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See lots of stuff about Atmosphere, Wind, Clouds but nothing on the surface of Venus
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post Apr 12 2007, 09:13 AM
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The clue is the word radar.... VEX is not equiped with radar to see through the clouds of Venus. VIRTIS (the IR camera) can infer surface properties at some wavelengths, but direct observations of the surface and virtually impossible. VEX is there to study the Atmosphere, Wind and Cloud, not map the surface with radar.

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- GravityWaves   Why no VeRa images from VEX ?   Apr 12 2007, 08:21 AM
- - djellison   The clue is the word radar.... VEX is not equiped...   Apr 12 2007, 09:13 AM
- - cndwrld   A couple things on this. VeRA can't image the...   Apr 12 2007, 10:13 AM
|- - tedstryk   Will it simply be spectral analysis of the reflect...   Apr 12 2007, 11:57 AM
|- - Littlebit   QUOTE (cndwrld @ Apr 12 2007, 04:13 AM) N...   Apr 12 2007, 05:36 PM
- - cndwrld   I can't speak with ANY authority about what th...   Apr 12 2007, 01:07 PM

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