Mercury's Hidden Side Observed |
Mercury's Hidden Side Observed |
Mar 28 2007, 02:16 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
An ambitious astronomer takes advantage of a rare opportunity to photograph the hemisphere of Mercury we almost never get to see via telepresence in Chile. Article here.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Mar 28 2007, 04:01 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1585 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
I believe the best images I have heard of are radar images from Arecibo. It would be interesting to compare to visual or IR.
edit: ah, of course, from this very forum. |
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