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 20 2011, 05:20 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10190 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Yes, it's the polar crater called Chao Meng-Fu. The amount of heat available to conduct from the interior would be very small. And of course the core may be large and metallic but the surface is rocky, not metallic. The dusty regolith would be a good insulator, not conducting heat sideways from sunlit areas. And any heat that did get in there is soon radiated away into space. Still, this might not be colder than the coldest lunar shadows, which are now referred to in the same way.
http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/H-15.pdf Link to a PDF file of names of craters in this area, 1.5 MB. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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