Radar And Mariner 10, Best possible mapping, pre-Messenger |
Radar And Mariner 10, Best possible mapping, pre-Messenger |
Apr 28 2005, 06:21 PM
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Dec 8 2007, 11:46 AM
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Mariner 10 took a series of approach <crescent> data for something like 6 days and outgoing data for maybe 3. Granted, the furthest out data is pretty horribly low rez, but the data shows stuff beyond the terminator on both approach and flyout. That's how the large crater "Mozart", south of Caloris, was discovered. It's not in the high rez mosaics.
Some of the data was lost or truncated by camera wander due to Mariner's large attitude control slop, and I vaguely recall some color band data may have been smeared by the wander, or some data was over-exposed, but I've always wanted to see the several frame zoom "movie" from approach and flyout, both at native resolution, and rescaled to a uniform diameter. |
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