Here's my latest message from Robert Mitchell:
> Bruce, > > We've looked at all the data on the fogging issue now, and I think I > can answer your question. We saw major improvement after the last > warming cycle, and in fact may have entirely solved the problem, but > don't know for sure yet. After the heaters were turned off, we took > images at -40 and -90 deg, but the -90 degree images, which is the > normal operating temperature for imaging, were lost due to a glitch > at the DSN. So all of our results are based on the -40 deg images, > which we don't expect to be as good as they would have been at -90. > The spec value is to have less than or equal to 4% of the light fall > outside of a 5 pixel radius, and we're seeing 6% now. It was 70% at > the peak, so we've made very good progress! We have another warming > cycle going on now which will complete in another couple of weeks, > after which we'll take more images and make another assessment. > == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
