Mars Global Surveyor spots Mars Express and Mars Odyssey

[Kullat Nunu]

Mars Odyssey from Two Distances in One Image
Mars Odyssey Seen by Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Odyssey Seen by Mars Global Surveyor (3-D)
Mars Express Seen by Mars Global Surveyor

This picture of the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft by the Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor is from the first successful imaging of any spacecraft orbiting a foreign planet taken by another spacecraft orbiting that planet. The picture is a composite of two views of Mars Express that Mars Orbiter Camera acquired on April 20, 2005, from distances of about 250 and 370 kilometers (155 and 229 miles).

[tlbs101]

That is so cool. 8)

I had wondered a few times if they could even do that. Obviously they can. I sort of makes sense that MGS would be the one to take the pictures, since it is living on "borrowed" time and has pretty much performed its intended science mission long ago, therefore it is "free" to do things like this.

The Mars Express image kinda looks like a "space bat".

[ToSeek]

MSSS has all the images on one page.

[Swift]

very 8)

[frogesque]

The things they'll say to explain away a UFO :^o

Very cool images, impressed =D> =D> =D>

[Superluminal]

Great, now can they see the Viking or Mariner orbiters? Or do they still know the orbits well enough to find them?

[Kullat Nunu]

Great, now can they see the Viking or Mariner orbiters? Or do they still know the orbits well enough to find them?

Probably not, and in addition they have different (?) orbits than the orbits the current probes use.

But Spirit has already imaged the Viking 2 Orbiter.

[publiusr]

More here:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches..._orbiters.html