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elakdawalla
post 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!


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post Sep 9 2011, 08:29 PM
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Pretty well. Mercury and the Moon are two very different places, despite their superficial similarities.

Here's one reference: Evidence for Young Volcanism on Mercury from the Third MESSENGER Flyby

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During its first two flybys of Mercury, the MESSENGER spacecraft acquired images confirming that pervasive volcanism occurred early in the planet’s history. MESSENGER’s third Mercury flyby revealed a 290-kilometer-diameter peak-ring impact basin, among the youngest basins yet seen, having an inner floor filled with spectrally distinct smooth plains. These plains are sparsely cratered, postdate the formation of the basin, apparently formed from material that once flowed across the surface, and are therefore interpreted to be volcanic in origin. An irregular depression surrounded by a halo of bright deposits northeast of the basin marks a candidate explosive volcanic vent larger than any previously identified on Mercury. Volcanism on the planet thus spanned a considerable duration, perhaps extending well into the second half of solar system history.


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- elakdawalla   MESSENGER orbital mission PDS data   Sep 8 2011, 05:47 PM
- - ugordan   I must be doing something wrong because I can...   Sep 8 2011, 06:27 PM
|- - ugordan   One snapshot, hard to find a good frame when no br...   Sep 8 2011, 07:30 PM
|- - ugordan   One with a very low sun angle, again 2x:   Sep 8 2011, 08:06 PM
- - OWW   Great work! Looks like that last one is the sa...   Sep 8 2011, 08:18 PM
|- - ugordan   Yes, it looked familiar to me, particularly that o...   Sep 8 2011, 08:32 PM
|- - ugordan   If you orbited high above Mercury, this is what yo...   Sep 8 2011, 09:03 PM
- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 8 2011, 01:32 PM) Ye...   Sep 9 2011, 01:24 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Another way to use the global map interface - a mo...   Sep 9 2011, 01:44 PM
|- - kwp   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Sep 9 2011, 06:44 AM...   Sep 9 2011, 07:38 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (kwp @ Sep 9 2011, 08:38 PM) How we...   Sep 9 2011, 10:32 PM
- - elakdawalla   Pretty well. Mercury and the Moon are two very di...   Sep 9 2011, 08:29 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Thanks, Emily! Yes... on the Moon there was a...   Sep 9 2011, 09:35 PM
- - Phil Stooke   This is MESSENGER flyby false color overlaid on an...   Sep 9 2011, 09:43 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Recent south pole images have filled in the whole ...   Sep 19 2011, 08:38 PM
|- - scalbers   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Sep 19 2011, 09:38 P...   Oct 8 2011, 05:57 PM
- - tanjent   Is it safe to assume that the dark "bullseye...   Sep 20 2011, 05:05 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Yes, it's the polar crater called Chao Meng-Fu...   Sep 20 2011, 05:20 PM
- - Phil Stooke   There's lots to see by browsing around that gl...   Sep 25 2011, 07:55 PM
- - elakdawalla   I just realized I hadn't started this thread i...   Sep 29 2011, 03:45 PM
- - hendric   Phil, That to me looks like a Mt. St. Helens-sty...   Sep 29 2011, 08:45 PM
- - Ittiz   Have they released any good topographic data yet?   Oct 25 2012, 09:08 PM
- - djellison   Lots - http://geo.pds.nasa.gov/missions/messenger/...   Oct 25 2012, 09:24 PM
- - Phil Stooke   It's worth pointing out that the Mercury Laser...   Oct 25 2012, 09:46 PM
- - Ittiz   Yeah, I've seen that data. So basically it...   Oct 26 2012, 01:20 PM
- - peter59   MESSENGER MDIS Release #9 is now available. (2012 ...   Mar 13 2013, 09:41 PM
- - nprev   That pic is a jaw-dropper, Peter!   Mar 13 2013, 10:52 PM
- - Explorer1   Absolutely bizarre. And probably the best views we...   Mar 14 2013, 05:22 AM
- - peter59   Images from Messenger's narrow angle camera ar...   Mar 8 2014, 12:08 PM
|- - john_s   Those secondary crater images are remarkable, and ...   Mar 8 2014, 04:01 PM
|- - peter59   QUOTE (john_s @ Mar 8 2014, 05:01 PM) The...   Mar 10 2014, 10:39 PM
- - peter59   Unique close-up look at the chains of secondary cr...   Mar 8 2014, 02:38 PM
- - peter59   I downloaded from PDS the latest batch of images c...   Apr 7 2015, 04:49 PM
- - jccwrt   A few finds from digging through the MESSENGER arc...   Oct 1 2016, 11:56 PM


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