Venus Express and MESSENGER simultaneous observations Options

[elakdawalla]

I thought this deserved its own topic...ESA just posted some images and a story on observations taken during the MESSENGER flyby. I assume we'll see a NASA / APL post later on the same topic.

Venusian rendezvous results: chapter one

Some interesting images here; I was quite surprised by the excellent match between the VIRTIS thermal image and the Magellan radar image. Looks like they're zeroing in on how to process those surface images!

--Emily

[cndwrld]

The Messenger Fly-By page got yanked from the ESA web site. The ESA people were ready to go, thought they had NASA/APL agreement, and posted it. But NASA/APL weren't ready yet, so it had to be pulled down again. Should be back up as soon as both sides of the Atlantic get their ducks in a row. I guess one location didn't get pulled down yet, though.