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post Feb 8 2008, 10:50 PM
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It is time for this new topic.

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post Sep 15 2008, 03:34 AM
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The Messenger website says that there will be (if I read it correctly).

Since I downloaded the images for my realtime simulation anyway (in case that the Solar System Simulator goes down during C/A), here are the images stringed together into a movie for CA +/- 1 hour:
http://www.spaceoutreach.com/display.php?i...8nimdaq15025458

But I know there are people on here who can do much more impressive movies rolleyes.gif


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- Holder of the Two Leashes   Mercury Flyby 2   Feb 8 2008, 10:50 PM
- - As old as Voyager   One interesting feature MESSENGER will get a good ...   Feb 8 2008, 11:02 PM
- - Decepticon   Do we get any polar regions imaged during any of t...   Feb 9 2008, 02:28 AM
- - Dominik   That's something I'm also interested in .   Feb 9 2008, 03:26 AM
- - CAP-Team   I think you'll have to wait for that till the ...   Feb 9 2008, 10:41 AM
|- - JRehling   The flybys are all near-equatorial and, moreover, ...   Feb 10 2008, 04:53 AM
- - tasp   I recognize there are some controversial views reg...   Feb 9 2008, 02:35 PM
|- - tty   QUOTE (tasp @ Feb 9 2008, 03:35 PM) I rec...   Feb 10 2008, 01:38 AM
- - Mariner9   I was reading an article on Spacedaily, and ran ac...   Feb 11 2008, 04:26 PM
|- - JRehling   Mariner 10 viewed 45% of Mercury. By these numbers...   Feb 11 2008, 05:52 PM
- - Phil Stooke   I'm pretty sure it means 33% of the blank area...   Feb 11 2008, 11:23 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Just one year (88 earth days) to go.   Jul 10 2008, 03:14 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   MESSENGER is solar sailing its way in to Mercury, ...   Sep 7 2008, 03:23 AM
|- - dilo   QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Sep 7 2008...   Sep 8 2008, 12:09 AM
- - Greg Hullender   Although flyby #2 largely covers territory already...   Sep 7 2008, 11:09 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Apparently this is the first time the technique ha...   Sep 8 2008, 01:00 AM
- - dmuller   With the second flyby now just a month away, I hav...   Sep 8 2008, 12:44 PM
- - elakdawalla   I have from a very reliable source the current be...   Sep 8 2008, 11:45 PM
|- - dmuller   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Sep 9 2008, 09:45 AM...   Sep 9 2008, 12:14 AM
- - peter59   Press Kit: MESSENGER Mercury Flyby 2 (PDF)   Sep 12 2008, 08:56 PM
- - Decepticon   Is there a flyby preview video available?   Sep 13 2008, 10:54 PM
- - dmuller   The Messenger website says that there will be (if ...   Sep 15 2008, 03:34 AM
- - peter59   Mercury Flyby 2 Visualization Tool http://messeng...   Sep 25 2008, 09:40 PM
|- - leper   QUOTE (peter59 @ Sep 26 2008, 07:40 AM) M...   Sep 29 2008, 12:35 AM
- - peter59   NAC Departure Mosaic #2 NAC Departure Mosaic #...   Sep 25 2008, 10:01 PM
- - charborob   This page shows the part of Mercury that will be i...   Sep 29 2008, 02:49 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (charborob @ Sep 29 2008, 07:49 AM)...   Oct 2 2008, 03:10 PM
- - peter59   New: Mercury Flyby 2 Instrument Operations. http:/...   Sep 30 2008, 03:40 PM
- - PhilCo126   That's great Peter! The second Mercury fl...   Oct 2 2008, 09:25 AM
- - vjkane   I hope that someone eventually publishes a map sho...   Oct 2 2008, 05:59 PM
- - peter59   First image is here: Acquired: October 3, 2008   Oct 3 2008, 03:33 PM
|- - 3488   Enlargement & enhancement of Crescent Mercury....   Oct 3 2008, 06:01 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Here's another version of the new image. Isn...   Oct 3 2008, 07:57 PM
- - Vultur   This spacecraft is really, really exciting! P...   Oct 4 2008, 12:25 AM
|- - TheChemist   QUOTE (Vultur @ Oct 4 2008, 03:25 AM) Ple...   Oct 4 2008, 12:46 AM
- - Phil Stooke   The next pic is up - here's an enlarged and pr...   Oct 4 2008, 07:46 PM
- - Phil Stooke   And the next... Phil The new southern basin...   Oct 4 2008, 10:45 PM
|- - 3488   Hi Phil, Certainly Skinakas Does Not exist. I re...   Oct 4 2008, 11:49 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 4 2008, 03:45 PM...   Oct 5 2008, 02:44 AM
- - volcanopele   That's the one I was trying to think of. Than...   Oct 5 2008, 03:38 AM
- - n1ckdrake   Getting closer.   Oct 5 2008, 09:38 AM
|- - 3488   Image # 5. #5 Image Northern Hemisphere. #...   Oct 5 2008, 10:29 AM
- - marsbug   To me it looks less like a basin with dark spots, ...   Oct 5 2008, 11:20 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Caloris suggests an answer to your question! ...   Oct 5 2008, 12:57 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The feature highlighted here may be another old im...   Oct 5 2008, 02:55 PM
- - Marz   Hoping someone can clue me in on what we're ...   Oct 5 2008, 05:03 PM
- - Juramike   The shading on the southern basin towards the term...   Oct 5 2008, 05:56 PM
- - remcook   i agree. it looks more like the edge of olympus mo...   Oct 5 2008, 06:01 PM
- - dvandorn   Hmmm... no Skinakas? I see arc-shaped lobes of d...   Oct 5 2008, 06:41 PM
|- - ed_lomeli   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Oct 5 2008, 10:41 AM) H...   Oct 7 2008, 02:03 PM
|- - ugordan   http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/scienc...mp;im...   Oct 7 2008, 02:09 PM
- - volcanopele   Looks like a good sized impact basin to me. Thoug...   Oct 5 2008, 06:43 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The odd shading in the southern basin is most easi...   Oct 5 2008, 06:50 PM
- - dvandorn   I almost decided it was a chance alignment of crat...   Oct 5 2008, 06:51 PM
|- - Holder of the Two Leashes   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Oct 5 2008, 01:51 PM) I...   Oct 5 2008, 08:14 PM
|- - Rob Pinnegar   QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Oct 5 2008...   Oct 6 2008, 12:04 AM
- - Fran Ontanaya   It will be interesting to see if there are volcano...   Oct 5 2008, 07:24 PM
- - Phil Stooke   My opinion is that Skinakas is nothing more than a...   Oct 6 2008, 12:22 AM
- - dmuller   Just over 8 hrs to closest approach, Messenger is ...   Oct 6 2008, 12:24 AM
- - Hungry4info   A new picture appeared. http://messenger.jhuapl.ed...   Oct 6 2008, 12:49 AM
- - volcanopele   Very nice. Now high enough res to actually do som...   Oct 6 2008, 12:59 AM
- - Juramike   Arrgh. VP beat me to it! Anyway here's m...   Oct 6 2008, 01:15 AM
- - Ian R   Here's a rough attempt at generating an overhe...   Oct 6 2008, 01:22 PM
- - Ken90000   Close Approach has passed. Is there any news abou...   Oct 6 2008, 02:15 PM
- - djellison   The spacecraft doesn't start downlinking for s...   Oct 6 2008, 02:15 PM
- - Ken90000   Thanks. I just figured the spacecraft would be mo...   Oct 6 2008, 03:57 PM
- - Greg Hullender   They have an update http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/n...   Oct 6 2008, 06:14 PM
- - imipak   QUOTE (Greg Hullender)The first pictures from the ...   Oct 6 2008, 07:11 PM
- - Phil Stooke   This is a rough fit of the inbound coverage to Ste...   Oct 6 2008, 07:59 PM
- - Phil Stooke   ... and here is the last image from the first enco...   Oct 6 2008, 08:12 PM
- - Juramike   Combination of Phil Stooke's image and my imag...   Oct 6 2008, 10:09 PM
- - Astro0   Just waiting for the latest images from Messenger ...   Oct 7 2008, 06:52 AM
- - dmuller   hey Astro0 ... there's no USB plug on that thi...   Oct 7 2008, 07:07 AM
- - n1ckdrake   New image of Mercury.   Oct 7 2008, 11:59 AM
|- - tedstryk   That is amazing! It has the feel of this Mari...   Oct 7 2008, 12:17 PM
- - remcook   ooo..stripy! link for description: http://mess...   Oct 7 2008, 12:18 PM
|- - 3488   It is indeed.!!!!!! I...   Oct 7 2008, 12:40 PM
|- - ugordan   A collage of 4 views of Mercury provided by MESSEN...   Oct 7 2008, 12:41 PM
- - Pavel   Can we say that Skinakas doesn't exist? I don...   Oct 7 2008, 01:47 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Skinakas was a ray-free area of cratered terrain, ...   Oct 7 2008, 02:15 PM
- - gndonald   It looks like Tycho's all over... The first c...   Oct 7 2008, 02:16 PM
- - gndonald   The level of detail in pic 217 looks eerily like a...   Oct 7 2008, 02:22 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Here's the oblique view reprojected. Phil   Oct 7 2008, 02:27 PM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 7 2008, 10:27 AM...   Oct 7 2008, 02:31 PM
|- - tedstryk   Here is Ugordan's montage with the Mariner 10 ...   Oct 7 2008, 07:23 PM
|- - ugordan   Awesome, Ted!   Oct 7 2008, 07:58 PM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (ugordan @ Oct 7 2008, 07:58 PM) Aw...   Oct 7 2008, 08:02 PM
- - peter59   Next image set: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/galler...   Oct 8 2008, 03:20 PM
|- - Juramike   From caption for this image: QUOTE "The crate...   Oct 8 2008, 03:35 PM
- - djellison   Was the processing loud?   Oct 8 2008, 03:50 PM
- - elakdawalla   Here's an updated version of my context map. ...   Oct 8 2008, 03:58 PM
- - Greg Hullender   In the "are we there yet" spirit, given ...   Oct 8 2008, 04:41 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Here's a reprojection of the smooth plains ima...   Oct 8 2008, 04:47 PM
|- - Ian R   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 8 2008, 05:47 PM...   Oct 8 2008, 07:28 PM
- - Phil Stooke   ... and another one of the northern limb. This ki...   Oct 8 2008, 05:01 PM
- - Juramike   Is it just me or does almost every other "fre...   Oct 8 2008, 05:09 PM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (Juramike @ Oct 8 2008, 09:09 AM) I...   Oct 8 2008, 10:41 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (Juramike @ Oct 8 2008, 09:09 AM) I...   Oct 9 2008, 04:48 AM
- - Stu   Mercury's starting to look a lot like one of C...   Oct 8 2008, 08:04 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The Vivaldi release - showing that the same crater...   Oct 9 2008, 12:43 PM
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