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 Feb 8 2008, 10:50 PM
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Oct 7 2008, 02:27 PM
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Here's the oblique view reprojected.
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Oct 7 2008, 02:31 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 7 2008, 10:27 AM)  Here's the oblique view reprojected. So the feature on the right is the NW corner of what we've been calling the "southern basin" then? -Mike -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Oct 7 2008, 07:23 PM
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Here is Ugordan's montage with the Mariner 10 mosaics added.
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Oct 7 2008, 07:58 PM
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Awesome, Ted!
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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 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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