Mercury Flyby 1 |
Mercury Flyby 1 |
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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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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 ![]() |
I've just realised why this view (the Vivaldi one) is somewhat disturbing to look at. It's because some of the craters aren't circular, and this messes up the normally unconscious process of 'reading' the perspective. For instance there is a smallish crater to the left of Vivaldi with a totally shadowed interior that looks almost like a circular black hole punched through the photograph. It just won't lie down on the surface of the planet when I look at it. In fact it must be considerably elongated along the line of sight to look circular in the image, but no matter how much I tell myself this it still looks . . . disturbing. I think this is going to be a characteristic of Mercury images in general. Looking forward to some 3D - THAT should make the surface behave properly!
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