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 Dec 5 2007, 06:47 AM
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40 days and counting. The long wait is almost over!
I wonder whether we will get enough data to test new simulation theories like this one. http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19...solar-wind.html What do you expect from this first flyby? |
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Jan 11 2008, 01:59 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
That would be fascinating, but got my doubts. I'd be much more inclined to believe in possible small moons for Mercury if the planet was truly Sun-synchronous in rotation, but as-is and given the tremendous gravitational influence of the Sun (to say nothing of Mercury's orbital eccentricity) I just don't see it happening due to (however minute) tidal influences.
Would be delighted to be proven wrong, however!  As I mentioned to another forum member in a private message, each first orbital mission around a planet has uncovered at least one surprise; can hardly wait to see what Mercury has in store for us.
-------------------- 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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MarsIsImportant Mercury Flyby 1 Dec 5 2007, 06:47 AM
As old as Voyager Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing MESS... Dec 5 2007, 10:04 AM monitorlizard [.....]
I think the most exciting thing we have s... Dec 5 2007, 10:06 AM edstrick Mariner 10 had terribly limited color imaging.. Or... Dec 6 2007, 09:27 AM
tedstryk QUOTE (edstrick @ Dec 6 2007, 09:27 AM) H... Dec 6 2007, 12:33 PM MarsIsImportant From wikipedia...
QUOTE The mission is designed t... Dec 10 2007, 08:01 PM JRehling [...] Dec 10 2007, 10:51 PM nprev The most exciting features I could anticipate migh... Dec 11 2007, 01:41 AM Holder of the Two Leashes I expect the magnetometer data to provide some hel... Dec 11 2007, 03:28 AM IM4 Simple Celestia perspective : Mercury as seen aft... Dec 11 2007, 07:08 PM MarsIsImportant This is an animation of the January 14th, 2008 Mes... Dec 14 2007, 04:19 AM JRehling [...] Dec 14 2007, 04:47 AM MarsIsImportant Well, it has been about 33 years since the last me... Dec 15 2007, 08:33 PM Rob Pinnegar Yeah, that magnetic field is sure to be one of the... Dec 15 2007, 11:13 PM JRehling [...] Dec 16 2007, 04:42 AM Rob Pinnegar Actually, my first guess is that Mercury's slo... Dec 16 2007, 05:53 PM peter59 MESSENGER’s nineteenth trajectory-correction maneu... Dec 20 2007, 06:53 PM peter59 New animation of MESSENGER's flyby of Mercury ... Dec 21 2007, 06:06 PM tedstryk Sweet! Dec 21 2007, 06:09 PM ugordan Wow, that's going to be a LOT of frames!
... Dec 21 2007, 06:43 PM volcanopele Very nice! Looks like there will some very ni... Dec 21 2007, 06:42 PM volcanopele LOL, I've been working on image processing for... Dec 21 2007, 07:14 PM tedstryk I am looking forward to seeing the rest of Caloris... Dec 21 2007, 08:12 PM 4th rock from the sun QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 21 2007, 08:12 PM) ... Dec 22 2007, 03:33 PM MarsIsImportant Wow! There will be a lot more visual camera m... Dec 22 2007, 06:33 AM edstrick "...all of which add up to the magnetic field... Dec 22 2007, 11:54 AM CAP-Team I'm curious who'll post the first new map ... Dec 22 2007, 03:05 PM nprev ...we should start a pool! UMSF's imagesmi... Dec 22 2007, 03:23 PM ugordan QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 22 2007, 04:23 PM) I... Dec 22 2007, 03:35 PM algorimancer QUOTE (ugordan @ Dec 22 2007, 09:35 AM) .... Dec 22 2007, 11:55 PM mcaplinger QUOTE (algorimancer @ Dec 22 2007, 03:55 ... Dec 23 2007, 10:56 PM nprev Didn't forget; actually, never knew. Bummer. Dec 22 2007, 03:37 PM Doc QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 22 2007, 06:37 PM) Did... Dec 24 2007, 10:14 AM peter59 QUOTE (Doc @ Dec 24 2007, 11:14 AM) Howev... Dec 29 2007, 03:37 PM Phil Stooke No, but any press release mosaics etc. could be re... Dec 22 2007, 10:12 PM JRehling [...] Dec 22 2007, 10:44 PM elakdawalla In terms of when images get released, a lot depend... Dec 22 2007, 10:57 PM djellison Outreach is certainly part of the mission selectio... Dec 23 2007, 12:10 AM tfisher QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 22 2007, 08:10 PM)... Dec 23 2007, 01:38 PM Rob Pinnegar QUOTE (tfisher @ Dec 23 2007, 06:38 AM) T... Dec 23 2007, 07:49 PM nprev Yeah...it's easy to forget that it takes a lot... Dec 23 2007, 02:18 AM MarsIsImportant If we are not pushy and the Messenger team knows a... Dec 23 2007, 06:20 AM scalbers Wonder if any images will be shown at this public ... Dec 24 2007, 11:00 PM gcecil QUOTE (scalbers @ Dec 24 2007, 06:00 PM) ... Dec 25 2007, 10:42 PM simonbp QUOTE (gcecil @ Dec 25 2007, 04:42 PM) Up... Jan 2 2008, 09:49 PM CAP-Team Does anyone know what the field of view of the Nar... Dec 29 2007, 09:50 AM elakdawalla QUOTE (CAP-Team @ Dec 29 2007, 01:50... Dec 29 2007, 05:03 PM CAP-Team Based on Emily's data, this is how Messenger s... Dec 29 2007, 11:21 PM gcecil Can someone here please point me to updating orbit... Jan 2 2008, 01:02 PM elakdawalla Does JPL's HORIZONS system give you what you... Jan 2 2008, 06:07 PM gcecil QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 2 2008, 01:07 PM... Jan 2 2008, 11:24 PM ustrax We're back...
http://spaceurope.blogspot.c... Jan 4 2008, 10:40 PM Phil Stooke Some new visualizations are up on the MESSENGER pa... Jan 5 2008, 09:10 PM ustrax QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 5 2008, 09:10 PM... Jan 5 2008, 10:36 PM NMRguy MESSENGER Mission News
January 7, 2008
MESSENGER O... Jan 7 2008, 04:46 PM PhilCo126 Any chance they'll show something on NASA.TV ? Jan 8 2008, 04:32 PM NMRguy Apparently they will. Here's a link to the sc... Jan 8 2008, 04:55 PM NMRguy MESSENGER Mission News
January 8, 2008
Six Days fr... Jan 8 2008, 08:15 PM JRehling [...] Jan 8 2008, 08:50 PM Stu While we wait for new images to start coming in, I... Jan 8 2008, 11:08 PM Stu Can someone help me get oriented here? I've al... Jan 8 2008, 11:41 PM lyford n00b question -
How does a spacecraft like Messe... Jan 8 2008, 11:44 PM Ian R Stu,
Check out the screenshot I've culled fro... Jan 9 2008, 12:04 AM JRehling [...] Jan 9 2008, 12:10 AM Stu Thanks guys, exactly what I wanted. Knew I could c... Jan 9 2008, 12:12 AM edstrick This will give a rather poor, high-sun-angle view ... Jan 9 2008, 10:09 AM ustrax Great explanation by Noam Izenberg about what will... Jan 9 2008, 05:52 PM elakdawalla MESSENGER Team Receives First Optical Navigation I... Jan 9 2008, 08:03 PM nprev I was gonna say "odd", but that's co... Jan 9 2008, 09:48 PM CAP-Team The NAC images should look something like this:
Jan 9 2008, 10:03 PM ustrax We have an happy team over there...Ralph McNutt wo... Jan 10 2008, 03:41 PM Stu I know that at least one of the MESSENGER team has... Jan 10 2008, 04:27 PM ustrax MERCURY AHEAD!!! Jan 10 2008, 06:02 PM elakdawalla Press conference graphics Jan 10 2008, 06:04 PM PDP8E Here is the output of my hand written trajectory s... Jan 10 2008, 06:23 PM belleraphon1 Mercury Ahead indeed.
Really looking forward to ... Jan 10 2008, 10:56 PM Holder of the Two Leashes Those press conference graphics that Emily linked ... Jan 10 2008, 11:10 PM nprev Yeah (sigh)...I'm hoping that the spacebug gen... Jan 10 2008, 11:15 PM Holder of the Two Leashes I've noticed on the animations that some of th... Jan 10 2008, 11:48 PM tedstryk QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Jan 10 200... Jan 10 2008, 11:54 PM gcecil QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jan 10 2008, 06:54 PM) ... Jan 11 2008, 01:03 AM elakdawalla I think also it was easier for them to sequence, a... Jan 11 2008, 12:05 AM JRehling [...] Jan 11 2008, 12:16 AM elakdawalla QUOTE (JRehling @ Jan 10 2008, 04:16 PM) ... Jan 11 2008, 04:31 AM volcanopele Excellent. All future communications from me will... Jan 11 2008, 05:30 AM stevesliva Me
.oot Jan 11 2008, 05:40 AM peter59 New image snapped with the Narrow Angle Camera, on... Jan 11 2008, 05:11 PM tedstryk Here is a new version of the first image. The pro... Jan 11 2008, 05:19 PM Bjorn Jonsson Getting closer. Hints of relief/craters visible, e... Jan 11 2008, 05:20 PM ugordan Interesting, it's just starting to show irregu... Jan 11 2008, 05:23 PM volcanopele LOL, looks like we all had the same idea. So far ... Jan 11 2008, 05:50 PM tedstryk I processed both of them now.
Jan 11 2008, 06:08 PM climber Not my idea actualy, but I hope Nasa will name a y... Jan 11 2008, 07:59 PM tedstryk Looks like our Poet Laureate has given voice to ou... Jan 11 2008, 09:13 PM ustrax HOO-RAH!!! Jan 11 2008, 09:24 PM n1ckdrake Beautiful poem. Congrats Stu! Jan 11 2008, 09:44 PM Stu Thanks! I'm almost embarrassingly chuff... Jan 11 2008, 09:55 PM belleraphon1 Stu.... very nice...
You give value to all of us... Jan 12 2008, 12:10 AM nprev Let me add my congratulations, Stu; that's jus... Jan 12 2008, 01:04 AM |
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