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Mercury's Hidden Side Observed
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post Mar 28 2007, 02:16 AM
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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.


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post Mar 31 2007, 04:33 PM
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This might be a good thread to post images of the "Far Side" of Mercury,
the side not imaged by Mariner 10. The bulk of the high-res images are
probably the Radar ones. However, the visible Earth-based telescopic views
of the Far Side would be nice to see. Then we can wait only a few more months
and see what Messenger reveals about that Far Side.
To start, could anyone in UMSF post those detailed Radar images? I have
seen one of a large crater (with ejecta blanket?) - does anyone have access
to a digital version of that?

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- nprev   Mercury's Hidden Side Observed   Mar 28 2007, 02:16 AM
- - stevesliva   I believe the best images I have heard of are rada...   Mar 28 2007, 04:01 AM
- - JRehling   QUOTE (nprev @ Mar 27 2007, 07:16 PM) An ...   Mar 28 2007, 11:47 PM
- - nprev   Can't find any pics yet...assuming that he...   Mar 29 2007, 03:42 AM
|- - Rob Pinnegar   QUOTE (nprev @ Mar 28 2007, 09:42 PM) Hel...   Mar 29 2007, 12:29 PM
- - J.J.   ^ Or another way, the best the pictures of Mercury...   Mar 29 2007, 03:47 AM
- - nprev   Ah; the perils of academia. Yeah, Rob, that sounds...   Mar 30 2007, 01:37 AM
- - PhilHorzempa   This might be a good thread to post images of the ...   Mar 31 2007, 04:33 PM
- - angel1801   I have checked my harddisk and I do have an radar ...   Mar 31 2007, 05:47 PM
|- - tedstryk   There is a lot of good stuff in this thread.   Mar 31 2007, 06:12 PM
- - nprev   Thanks, Ted; good stuff indeed! Kind of int...   Apr 2 2007, 02:43 PM
- - J.J.   ^ Mercury's "intercrater plains" are...   Apr 3 2007, 03:47 PM
- - dvandorn   The most common theory I've heard in re Mercur...   Apr 3 2007, 04:53 PM
- - JRehling   My own post-digested view of the literature on Mer...   Apr 3 2007, 05:16 PM

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