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The
European Space Agency
Mars Express: VMC
April 15, 2024. New
VMC Extended Mission 9 raw and calibrated data have been released,
with coverage through June 30, 2023.
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The Visual Monitoring
Camera (VMC) onboard the Mars Express
spacecraft
was originally intended as an engineering
camera to monitor the release of the Beagle-2
lander, but has subsequently been used for
outreach and scientific purposes. In 2016 it
was designated a science instrument. The
instrument records gray-scale images and color
images using a Bayer grid to provide
monitoring of large scale features on Mars,
such as clouds, dust, and surface ice cover.
The VMC science team lead is Agustin
Sanchez-Lavega, University of Basque Country
in Bilbao, Spain.
The primary source for VMC data is the
ESA Planetary Science Archive.
Through a cooperative agreement between ESA and NASA,
the PDS Geosciences Node is hosting a copy of the VMC
data archive.
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VMC Experiment Data Record (raw data)
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VMC Reduced Data Record (calibrated data)
More information about VMC is on the
ESA web
site.
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April 15, 2024. New
VMC Extended Mission 9 raw and calibrated data have been released,
with coverage through June 30, 2023.
February 20, 2024. New
VMC Extended Mission 8 raw and calibrated data have been released,
with coverage through December 31, 2022.
December 15, 2022. New
VMC Extended Mission 8 raw and calibrated data have been released,
with coverage through December 31, 2021.
April 25, 2022. New
VMC Extended Mission 8 calibrated data have been released,
with coverage through June 30, 2021.
April 19, 2022. New
VMC Extended Mission 8 raw data have been released,
with coverage through June 30, 2021.
October 5, 2021.
New
VMC Extended Mission 7 raw and calibrated data have been released,
with coverage through December 31, 2020.
October 28, 2020.
New
VMC data have been released,
with coverage through June 30, 2020. |