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Mars-Express On Its Way

Posted by michael on from the au-revoir dept.

Nebukadnezar writes "Two weeks ago, Mars-Express tested its sensors and took some marvelous data and pics of the Earth-Moon system from a distance of about 8*10^6 km. Nice to see our neighborhood once in a while. BTW check out the spectrometer readings of Earth: water shows up very clearly. I wonder what this instrument will tell us about water on Mars..."

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  1. let's hope this one gets some good info by ravenousbugblatter · · Score: 3, Interesting
    As always it's amazing to see new photos of earth from outerspace, especially in ones like this where you can see the moon in reference to the earth.

    The next couple of years could be really interesting with all of the mars missions launched recently. Let's just hope they didn't screw up any metric conversions this time...

  2. Ozone? by kinnell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to the chart, the level of ozone is quite high. Does anyone know if this corresponds to the actual average ozone levels in the whole atmosphere, or is it skewed higher because the ozone layer is at high altitude?

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