Yes, yes: it's a little off-topic for the VMC blog, but this is waaaay cool! ESA astronaut Frank De Winne has agreed to accept video questions posted as a response to his invitation in YouTube. And get this: he's agreed to post answers to selected questions from his training location in Moscow or from space - on board the ISS once he launches (now due for 27 May). Access the full YT video after the jump...

We now return to our regular Mars Webcam blogging. :-)

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New images have been posted to the image database. These images are from the VMC observation on 16 April 2009. To access the images click the link below. Also you can access the Celestia file to see where the images were captured and access the raw data in the zip file (for more details see Help us with the VMC)



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New images have been posted to the image database. These images are from the VMC observation on 09 April 2009. To access the images click the link below. Also you can access the Celestia file to see where the images were captured and access the raw data in the zip file (for more details see Help us with the VMC)



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Updated images have been posted to the image database. These images are from the VMC observation on 19 March 2009. Go see the original post with these new images added here:

Images From 19 March 2009

Our first public submission of the new VMC blog comes as part of the International Year of Astronomy project - 100 Hours of Astronomy. Mike Malaska of North Carolina, USA, decided to work on the latest batch of VMC images as part of his contribution to this project. Mike's work really brings out the detail of the cloud dynamics swirling above Mars in the latest photos - read on to see how he did it.

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