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Tag Archives: VMC
Mars Express: Dust storms swirl at martian north pole
ESA’s Mars Express has been keeping an eye on local and regional dust storms brewing at the north pole of the Red Planet over the last month, watching as they disperse towards the equator. Local and regional storms lasting for … Continue reading
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Tagged DLR, dust storms, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Mars Express, MEX, north polar ice cap, north polar region, Visual Monitoring Camera, VMC
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European Space Agency: Supporting InSight
At just before 9pm Central European Time on 26 November, Mars will receive a new visitor: NASA’s InSight lander. (…) Since InSight’s study is focused on sensing the planet’s interior, surface geology is not such an important factor in deciding … Continue reading
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Tagged Elysium Mons, Elysium Planitia, ESA, European Space Agency, Gale Crater, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars Express, Mars Webcam, MEX, NASA, north polar ice cap, Visual Monitoring Camera, VMC
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Mars Express: Keeping an eye on a curious cloud
Since 13 September, ESA’s Mars Express has been observing the evolution of an elongated cloud formation hovering in the vicinity of the 20 km-high Arsia Mons volcano, close to the planet’s equator. In spite of its location, this atmospheric feature … Continue reading
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Tagged Arsia Mons, clouds, ESA, European Space Agency, Mars Express, Mars Webcam, MEX, orographic clouds, Visual Monitoring Camera, VMC
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Mars Express webcam surveys high-altitude clouds
An unprecedented catalogue of more than 21,000 images taken by a webcam on ESA’s Mars Express is proving its worth as a science instrument, providing a global survey of unusual high-altitude cloud features on the Red Planet. The low-resolution camera … Continue reading
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Tagged clouds, ESA, European Space Agency, Mars Express, Mars Webcam, MEX, Visual Monitoring Camera, VMC
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Mars Express: Visual Monitoring Camera goes pro
In the past fortnight, the VMC camera on Mars Express has delivered some of the best images ever, showing the Martian surface in excellent detail, colour and contrast. If you’re a VMCer (and, if you’re reading this, you are!) and … Continue reading
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Tagged ESA, European Space Agency, Mars Express, Mars Webcam, MEX, Visual Monitoring Camera, VMC
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MEX: Mars Visual Monitoring Camera back online
From the Mars Express Mars Webcam blog: Today’s post sent in by Mars Express Spacecraft Operations Engineer Simon Wood, at ESOC. The news? Ten observations slots in the next four weeks, starting today! You may have noticed that VMC has … Continue reading
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Tagged ESA, European Space Agency, Mars Express, Mars Webcam, MEX, Visual Monitoring Camera, VMC
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