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Mars Express: VMC

February 20, 2024. New VMC Extended Mission 8 raw and calibrated data have been released, with coverage through December 31, 2022.

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.

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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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