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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pioneer What Will This Mission Accomplish Others Won't? Jan 10 2005, 09:05 PM
djellison Well - yes - MGS and MEX have high res cameras - 1... Jan 10 2005, 09:28 PM Sunspot ......still wondering what happened to the high re... Jan 11 2005, 12:28 AM djellison QUOTE (Sunspot @ Jan 11 2005, 12:28 AM)......... Jan 11 2005, 09:02 AM lyford QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 11 2005, 01:02 AM)QUOT... Jan 11 2005, 04:42 PM djellison The Marsis deployment is scheduled for March iirc
... Jan 11 2005, 06:01 PM djellison Well - two obvious points.
-That image is colour... Jan 12 2005, 09:49 AM OWW QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 12 2005, 09:49 AM)-Tha... Jan 12 2005, 10:41 AM djellison Do you have a scanner
Doug Jan 12 2005, 12:20 PM OWW No I don't have a scanner. But I can give you ... Jan 12 2005, 01:33 PM djellison Maybe it's just printed small
Doug Jan 12 2005, 02:15 PM OWW QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 12 2005, 02:15 PM)Mayb... Jan 12 2005, 02:24 PM djellison Well - maybe they are having calibration problems ... Jan 12 2005, 02:25 PM MizarKey QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 12 2005, 06:25 AM)Well... Jan 12 2005, 06:55 PM Decepticon I'm looking forward to seeing the other Lander... Jan 20 2005, 02:09 AM dvandorn QUOTE (Decepticon @ Jan 20 2005, 02:09 AM)I... Mar 11 2005, 04:01 AM tedstryk Actually, we already have good locations for Vikin... Mar 11 2005, 04:29 AM
djellison MRO's swath width is ENORMOUS!
6km widt... Mar 11 2005, 07:47 AM |
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