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Jan 11 2008, 05:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Interesting, it's just starting to show irregularities in brightness of the crescent, i.e. hints that it's not a smooth globe.
EDIT: I see Bjorn beat me to it -------------------- |
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Jan 11 2008, 05:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
LOL, looks like we all had the same idea. So far I could only identify one surface feature when comparing the image to the Mariner 10 basemaps:
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Jan 11 2008, 06:08 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
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Jan 11 2008, 07:59 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Not my idea actualy, but I hope Nasa will name a yet to be discovered feature on Mercury after Hillary (& Tenzing).
BTW, did you know that when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon, it was on Hillary's 50th birthday ! -------------------- |
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Jan 11 2008, 09:13 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Looks like our Poet Laureate has given voice to our first views from the vicinity of Mercury since the 1970s.
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/poem.html -------------------- |
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Jan 11 2008, 09:24 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
HOO-RAH!!!
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Jan 11 2008, 09:44 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 25-June 07 From: United States Member No.: 2537 |
Beautiful poem. Congrats Stu!
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Jan 11 2008, 09:55 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Thanks! I'm almost embarrassingly chuffed that they used it. I will never cease to be amazed by how generous and enthusiastic the people behind these multi-gazillion dollar/pound/euro missions are, how they take time from their busy schedules to answer emails from space cadets like me, and put things like that poem up on their official websites. I guess I'm still just that space mad kid who sat in a corner of the library at school reading the science books during breaktimes, when everyone else was outside kicking a ball around...
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Jan 12 2008, 12:10 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
Stu.... very nice...
You give value to all of us who spent their HS lunch hours buried in books and dreaming of climbing the worldtree. Keep it up, sir. Craig |
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Jan 12 2008, 01:04 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Let me add my congratulations, Stu; that's just outstanding, we're all extremely proud of you!!!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jan 12 2008, 02:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
wow...ted and bjorn and others nice work.
I just finished processing the 2nd crecent shot with an adaptive filter I built a few weeks ago. I think you can see he craters and hills especially near the terminator...enjoy! -------------------- CLA CLL
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Jan 12 2008, 03:00 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
You give value to all of us who spent their HS lunch hours buried in books What? You mean there were others? Well that's a comfort. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jan 12 2008, 03:38 AM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
I can't join in there...I usually spent those hours in the office, off somewhere in the school getting in trouble, or not at school really getting in trouble.
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Jan 12 2008, 06:11 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
Jumping ahead somewhat, looking at the animation of MESSENGER's trajectory I count three obits of Mercury between flybys one and two. Does that means the flyby two will see the other side?
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Jan 12 2008, 06:13 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Yup, flyby two is almost exactly 1.5 solar days after flyby one, so we see almost exactly the opposite hemisphere. See the little gray sidebar titled "MESSENGER's Mercury encounters" near the top of my flyby preview story for the longitudes that will be sunlit.
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