VIRTIS Team Meeting # 4
3 and 4 May 2005, Paris Observatory

Meeting room : salle du Conseil, in the old Observatory building (entrance from the terrace)

Agenda

Tuesday May 3 : Technical and programmatic issues

10h-13h : Status of the mission
  • Introduction : recent news from Venus Express : H. Svedhem ?
  • Summary of the last SOWG (Estec, 7/8 April): P. Drossart
  • Commissioning phase preparation : P. Drossart/G. Piccioni

Coffee Break

  • Science Activity plan : G. Piccioni
  • MAPPS software status : P. Drossart
  • Archiving : S. Erard
14h-18h : Status of the VIRTIS instrument
  • Calibration results : VIRTIS M : G. Piccioni, ...
  • Calibration results : VIRTIS H : JM Reess, P. Drossart, ...
  • Results from the last S/C tests : vibration, thermal balance/Thermal vacuum
  • Cover problem issue : G. Piccioni
  • VIRTIS data base, access to the data from co-Is teams, calibration software : F. Henry

Team dinner ~ 20h

Wednesday May 4 : Scientific issues

Reports from the VIRTIS science working groups

  • 9h30 - 10h30 : Radiative transfer : B. Bézard, C. Wilson, M. Roos-Serote, A. Adriani...
  • 10h30-11h30 : Surface : L. Marinangeli, ...

coffee break

  • 11h45-12h45 : Dynamics : S. Lebonnois, C. Wilson...
  • 12h45 - 13h00 : Synthesis
14h-16h :
  • Science planning activities
  • Publication rules
  • Next meetings, launch activities, etc.

End of meeting ~ 16h

Last modification : April 13, 2005