A camera aboard the Mars Express orbiter finds a new lease on life.
highlights how researchers are utilizing the VMC aboard the European Space Agency’s venerable Mars Express orbiter.
and so it started to be operated regularly. In recent years, VMC images started getting more and more popular and raised the attention of the community due to its scientific potential.”The VMC was initially only tasked with taking supplementary images of Mars. A 2016 collaboration saw a push to upgrade the camera for scientific use. In 2018, it found a role monitoring the Martian weather. Mars Express is in a nearly polar orbit. Its distant 11,560 kilometer apoapsis vantage point along its 7.
The imaging workflow for VMC uses bias, flat and dark frames, not unlike what amateur astrophotographers use to process images. VMC is similar to old turn-of-the-century webcams, and produces small images that are easy to transmit back to Earth.
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