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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.
More information about VMC is on the ESA web site. Online Tools
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. |
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