MESSENGER orbital mission PDS data |
MESSENGER orbital mission PDS data |
Sep 8 2011, 05:47 PM
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MESSENGER has made its first data delivery from the science phase of the mission to the PDS!
Press release: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=182 Map interface: http://messenger-act.actgate.com/msgr_publ...t_quickmap.html Links to data directories: http://pds.nasa.gov/tools/subscription_ser...-20110908.shtml Have at it, guys! -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Sep 8 2011, 06:27 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I must be doing something wrong because I can't find the new MDIS data either at Atlas search or any of the data directories.
Edit: found them here. -------------------- |
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Sep 8 2011, 07:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
One snapshot, hard to find a good frame when no browse images are available yet. EDC color interpolated through CIE XYZ colorspace and converted to sRGB. Magnified 2x from original pixel scale.
A note that our Moon appears similarly red/brown (somewhat less, though), yet the eye appears to compensate for that and make it grey. To human eyes adapted to Mercury's overall hue the surface would probably look more like this: -------------------- |
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Sep 8 2011, 08:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
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