25-March-2009, 08:22 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Planetary Society Web Log: Mars Express VMC is back online!
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Great news arrived in my inbox this morning: after several months' hiatus around the period of Mars' solar conjunction, the Visual Monitoring Camera on Mars Express is back in business. VMC is an engineering camera on Mars Express whose purpose was to document the departure of the ill-fated Beagle 2, and following the Beagle 2 deployment it wasn't used for years. Last year, though, ESA fired it up again, because although it's probably safe to say it's the lowest-quality camera at Mars right now, it's the only one that regularly gets full-globe shots of the planet.
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Mars Express VMC Webcam blog: Mars Webcam - back online! has pointers to other articles with recent images.
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