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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I'll have to consider this a bit. Off-hand I'm basically looking for some short cuts to try and get some high-res color imagery into the map without too much distortion. Even the current attempt appears to have done that. It would take me a while to get all the 87 individual images from VPs mosaic (post #2) into the map. This would be somewhat easier though if I had the precise pointing info discussed a few posts back. The MESSENGER visualization tool has some partial info I see.
I can easily try VPs mosaic #2 in the map to see how the limb reprojects itself compared with your mosaic to get a further feel for what you have described. I could also break up VP's mosaic into larger sections if that is what you were getting at. On the other hand the NAC #4 mosaic that you used would show more terrain near the limb as it is taken from a farther distance. Given that it has "just" 25 or so images it would be easier to consider the individual frames as well. Steve |
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