New NAVCAM browser

Great news for NAVCAM fans, now you can watch a small dot slowly approaching over a period of months !

Actually it's a lot better than that, a team from ESAC has put together a NAVCAM browser tool so over the coming months you will be able to see all the NAVCAM shots taken last year. So far we only have the far approach phase, which isn't all that interesting, unless you are a fan of small dots or are practising to be a flight director. Next month it will start to get interesting.

[link to imagearchives.esac.esa.int]

This tool is in addiction to ESA's Planetary Science Archive where you can find all the mission data that is no longer in the propriety period. Holger Sierks, when asked to contribute recent OSIRIS images to the archive, said "From my cold dead hands!" which is an improvement on the current situation.

You can browse the archive here, OSIRIS images are pre-hibernation.
[link to www.sciops.esa.int]

Moody OSIRIS image of Lutetia ( cut + paste address into a new tab )
ftp://psa.esac.esa.int/pub/mirror/INTERNATIONAL-ROSETTA-MISSION/OSINAC/RO-A-OSI​NAC-2-AST2-LUTETIAFLYBY-V1.1/BROWSE/2010_07/N20100710T154749351ID20F16.JPG

blog post
[link to blogs.esa.int]

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