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 25 2011, 07:55 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10226 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
There's lots to see by browsing around that global map, even at this stage. Here is an unusual crater:
It looks like an impact crater with a very large central peak. But it falls at the edge of pre-orbital color coverage: (top left) - where it coincides with an orange patch. In the false color composites made by the MESSENGER team this signifies pyroclastics. And the odd crater has no raised rim. Is it really just an extra-large explosive volcanism pit? Or one that completely surrounds the central peak of a regular crater? (some pits do curve part way around the floors of other craters). The big basin in the color image is Beethoven. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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