MESSENGER News Thread, news, updates and discussion |
MESSENGER News Thread, news, updates and discussion |
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Launched on August 3rd 2004, NASA's MESSENGER will become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.
News and updates are availbale via Johns Hopkins University MESSENGER website and the Kennedy Space Center's MESSENGER website. There will be an earth flyby in August followed by a couple of swings by Venus and three velocity scrubbing passages past mecury before the craft enters orbit in March 2011. April 18, 2005 status report from JHU. Extensive JHU FAQs page here. |
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Several years ago, Sean Solomon told me a fair amount about it -- but I'm not sure whether that's among the hundreds of stored E-mails that I later lost in an Outlook Express breakdown. I'll check when I get the chance. Suffice it to say that they plan to use virtually every Messenger instrument that CAN be used at Venus.
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QUOTE (um3k @ Sep 12 2005, 07:37 AM) Does that mean that we'll finally get some true (enough) color images of Venus? (really excited emoticon goes here!) It's easy to get a true color picture of Venus -- take it from Earth! Getting that with excellent resolution and the fuller phases is another matter, but the true color of Venus isn't exactly an outstanding mystery. Note that the ability to align color channels in digital processing helps enormously with the chromatic edge effects that haunted film photography. http://www.celestron-nexstar.de/referenzen..._gudensberg.jpg http://users3.ev1.net/~glennlray/Astro/Venus-20010203c.jpg http://dvaa.org/Photos/TomBash/VenusPhasesC11.jpg http://www.kk-system.co.jp/Alpo/kk04/v040511a.jpg |
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