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[slinted]

This was posted in the Dec 1st Mars Express Status report
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=36181

The go/no go decision for MARSIS deployment is expected in January 2005. If the decision to deploy is made, the earliest date for deployment is 17 March 2005.

Has anyone heard if this decision has been reached yet?

[remcook]

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guess huygens is booming right now

[slinted]

The new deployment date for the radar antenna - to be announced within days - is likely to fall in April 2005.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6974

[Guest_BruceMoomaw_*]

It's now been officially announced -- late April or early May:
http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/Pr_8_2005_p_EN.html

[chris]

Not having heard anything more, I'm assuming that this is on target for next week. Fingers crossed.

Chris

[cIclops]

Deployment is scheduled for May 2 according to Prof Neukum, PI for the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express in a recent audio interview on Planetary Radio - available here

[Redstone]

Here is the ESA confirmation of the May 2 deployment date. The process will continue through May 12 as the three booms are deployed in sequence, with system checks between each. After that, there are three weeks of commissioning before scientific measurement actually begins.

[Decepticon]

I don't expect any data on this for a long time.

I do expect Big News when the time comes to releasing it.

[deglr6328]

I don't expect any data on this for a long time.

I do expect Big News when the time comes to releasing it.

Is there anywhere we can see simulated marsis images? I'd like to see how exactly the data is made into imagery......or is it...?

[paxdan]

MARSIS homepage.

In the documentation section of the MARSIS homepage there is a quick look folder. Perhaps this is where they will bung the very preliminary data/results/analysis post deployment (there are no files in this folder at present)

E) OPERATION
E1) Planning
E2) Commanding
E3) Monitoring
E4) Quick look


F) PROCESSING
F1) Data Archiving
F2) Calibration
F3) Ground segment
F4) Science Processing


BBC coverage of MARSIS.

Article says deployment of the first boom is now scheduled for the 4th of May. As for Big News about the deployment:

"We don't want to go blowing our trumpets until we've deployed at least the first two booms," said a spokesman for the agency

My guess is that ESA would like to keep a failure to deploy under the radar of the press (pun only slightly intended). Also the journos are gonna be expecting pretty pictures and they are gonna take a while to produce and only be exciting/deciferable to us remote sensing freaks.

[centsworth_II]

"...the journos are gonna be expecting pretty pictures and they are gonna take a while to produce and only be exciting/deciferable to us remote sensing freaks.

As an non-RSF, I'm not so intersested in the images as the bottom line. What do the images tell us? Are there signs of layers of water beneath the surface and can it be determined if it is liquid or frozen. The artist's rendering that came with the press release, showing an underground cave filled with water was very provocative -- perhaps too much so. If a similar situation were to be indicated by the data that would be big news indeed!

[tedstryk]

"...the journos are gonna be expecting pretty pictures and they are gonna take a while to produce and only be exciting/deciferable to us remote sensing freaks.

As an non-RSF, I'm not so intersested in the images as the bottom line. What do the images tell us? Are there signs of layers of water beneath the surface and can it be determined if it is liquid or frozen. The artist's rendering that came with the press release, showing an underground cave filled with water was very provocative -- perhaps too much so. If a similar situation were to be indicated by the data that would be big news indeed!

Stupid question...what is an RSF?

[centsworth_II]

Stupid question...what is an RSF?

Remote Sensing Freak. I just made it up. The acronym, not the phrase.

[Decepticon]

Any deployment news?

[chris]

I doubt we'll hear anything for a while. From
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7334

"But ESA officials say determining the success of the deployment can be tricky, so they may wait until all three booms appear to be operating properly before making any announcements about the experiment. "We will not make the mistake of touting the trumpets when we are not sure," Jansen told New Scientist."


Chris