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Re: What?!? Wrong again

BD wrote:
Also, NASA is finally considering sending a life science lander in 2003.

Alex writes:
Try 2009 or 2011 at the earliest, and probably even later.

BD wrote:
You know who Drs. David McKay and David Warmflash are hopefully? They have published at the last LPI and SPIE...

Alex writes:
Yes, but LPSC abstracts are not peer-reviewed, nor, if I recall correctly, are SPIE abstracts. Anyone can submit abstracts (as long as they are topical) to the former.

BD wrote:
...you would realize that a blue filter has never been included on any Mars mission, except Odyssey...

Alex wrote:
Wrong, one of the cameras in the MGS Mars Orbiter Camera WA system is optimized in the blue portion of the spectrum (400-450 nm bandpass).

BD wrote:
It looks like the Odyssey image also used a violet (instead of blue) filter.

Alex writes:
Click here for the 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS IRS and VIS bandpasses.

Alex R. Blackwell
University of Hawaii

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