Mercury Flyby 1 |
Mercury Flyby 1 |
Dec 5 2007, 06:47 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 258 Joined: 22-December 06 Member No.: 1503 |
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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Feb 1 2008, 10:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2998 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
QUOTE The spider fracture pattern looks to me like what I would expect from a dome-like uplift - either related to isostatic compensation in the old basin, or later intrusions. Bingo. The radial graben are clearly extensional features. The impacting asteroid excavated the basin, and the mobile, plastic mantle overlying the fluid iron core made an isostatic adjustment. I'll suspect that altimetry will show that Caloris isn't a basin... It'll be interesting to see what the Skinakas Basin has to offer, as well as the Weird Terrain at the antipode of Caloris, etc. --Bill -------------------- |
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