Mercury mosaics from January 2008 Flyby |
Mercury mosaics from January 2008 Flyby |
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The raw data from MESSENGER's January 14, 2008 flyby of the planet Mercury are now online on NASA Planetary Data Service's website:
http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/data/messe...grmds_1001_new/ As such, I am proud to present a series of mosaics I have created using these raw images. These use the mosaic designs shown on the MESSENGER project's Mercury Flyby 1 Visualization Tool webpage. These mosaics were created in either Photoshop CS3 (using the Photomerge tool) or PTGui Pro (particularly for the two MASSIVE mosaics). Keep in mind that these mosaics are quite large in most cases, and it may be better just to right-click and save them to your hard drive to view them separately, rather than viewing them in your browser. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Hi Gordan. Yes I'm referring both to the one you did in post #28 and VP's in post #2. I can see this is a bit interesting and tricky if the hi-res black and white mosaic is taken from a farther distance and can see a larger portion of terrain near the limb compared with the WAC global color shot.
As an initial experiment I ran your #28 image in the map assuming it was at the same distance as the WAC shot. This appears to be close, though maybe slightly off in that I should maybe adjust the assumed distance (closer to the distance of the NAC frames) to account for some additional terrain showing up near the limb. I also tweaked things so I used the color information over most of your image except just black & white near the terminator where the hue in the shadows may drift a bit. Overall the results even at this stage may be good enough for me to soon post. Perhaps it might be better if I use VP's mosaic for the B&W info near the limb (if it has more coverage near the limb) and then overlay yours to show the region interior to that that has color? Steve |
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