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Mercury Flyby 1
MarsIsImportant
post Dec 5 2007, 06:47 AM
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40 days and counting. The long wait is almost over!

I wonder whether we will get enough data to test new simulation theories like this one.

http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19...solar-wind.html

What do you expect from this first flyby?
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- MarsIsImportant   Mercury Flyby 1   Dec 5 2007, 06:47 AM
- - elakdawalla   Just for fun, the same area as seen by Mariner 10....   Jan 16 2008, 08:31 PM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 16 2008, 08:38 PM
|- - jsheff   QUOTE (JRehling @ Jan 16 2008, 03:38 PM) ...   Jan 16 2008, 09:51 PM
- - ngunn   I've just realised why this view (the Vivaldi ...   Jan 16 2008, 08:44 PM
- - peter59   I'm a little dissapointed. I don't know wh...   Jan 16 2008, 09:55 PM
- - OWW   are you gonna tell me THIS looks like newspaper? ...   Jan 16 2008, 10:33 PM
|- - ugordan   Or this??? Check out what look like streams and s...   Jan 16 2008, 10:36 PM
||- - Sunspot   Indeed   Jan 16 2008, 10:41 PM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (OWW @ Jan 16 2008, 05:33 PM) are y...   Jan 17 2008, 12:28 AM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 17 2008, 12:43 AM
- - Astro0   OK, a big sorry for my posts yesterday. I was up f...   Jan 16 2008, 11:01 PM
|- - ugordan   Here's context for that crater image (was rota...   Jan 16 2008, 11:04 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Thanks, ugordan! I think we can see from this...   Jan 16 2008, 11:08 PM
- - antipode   Any guesses about the total relief we are seeing h...   Jan 17 2008, 12:31 AM
- - nprev   Never thought of that, JR...Mercury is already tea...   Jan 17 2008, 01:00 AM
- - MarsIsImportant   This may be a little premature, but I'm going ...   Jan 17 2008, 01:29 AM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 17 2008, 01:40 AM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (MarsIsImportant @ Jan 16 2008, 05...   Jan 17 2008, 06:12 AM
- - tasp   Can we expect a percentage of Hermian crater chain...   Jan 17 2008, 02:01 AM
- - nprev   I dunno, Tasp; they'd have to be pretty small ...   Jan 17 2008, 02:56 AM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 17 2008, 04:46 AM
|- - Gladstoner   .   Jan 17 2008, 07:08 AM
- - dvandorn   Tasp raises a good point, though, Nick. Mercury...   Jan 17 2008, 03:11 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 16 2008, 07:11 PM) ...   Jan 17 2008, 03:33 AM
- - MarsIsImportant   It's interesting that you mentioned the Stirli...   Jan 17 2008, 06:41 AM
- - edstrick   General observation on high resolution imagery of ...   Jan 17 2008, 07:15 AM
- - kenny   QUOTE (edstrick @ Jan 17 2008, 07:15 AM) ...   Jan 17 2008, 08:46 AM
- - edstrick   Correct. But more interpreted-as "volcanic...   Jan 17 2008, 09:53 AM
- - Doc   Observation notes 1) There appears to be lots of ...   Jan 17 2008, 10:52 AM
- - remcook   From Emily's blog: QUOTE So what do I see in ...   Jan 17 2008, 10:53 AM
- - Doc   Someone in this forum talked about apparent cinder...   Jan 17 2008, 11:00 AM
- - Oersted   http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/scienc...82708...   Jan 17 2008, 12:42 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Oersted @ Jan 17 2008, 12:42 PM) T...   Jan 17 2008, 12:56 PM
- - Phil Stooke   I'm sure ngunn is right about that - the brigh...   Jan 17 2008, 02:45 PM
|- - SpaceListener   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 17 2008, 08:45 A...   Jan 17 2008, 03:33 PM
|- - ugordan   Get these while they're hot: MESSENGER Views ...   Jan 17 2008, 03:57 PM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jan 17 2008, 10:57 AM) M...   Jan 17 2008, 05:32 PM
||- - Juramike   Even cooler. The cute little crater cluster abrup...   Jan 17 2008, 05:44 PM
|- - Ian R   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jan 17 2008, 03:57 PM) G...   Jan 18 2008, 06:52 PM
- - MarsIsImportant   I would like to get a much closer look at some of ...   Jan 17 2008, 02:53 PM
- - Phil Stooke   "In fact, some of the collapsed lava tube fea...   Jan 17 2008, 05:41 PM
- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (Juramike @ Jan 17 2008, 09:32 AM) ...   Jan 17 2008, 05:42 PM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 17 2008, 12:42 P...   Jan 17 2008, 08:02 PM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 17 2008, 08:20 PM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (JRehling @ Jan 17 2008, 03:20 PM) ...   Jan 17 2008, 09:36 PM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 17 2008, 09:54 PM
- - Stu   Being totally honest here, I don't know why I ...   Jan 17 2008, 05:45 PM
- - scalbers   Greetings, I've now incorporated the Messenge...   Jan 17 2008, 05:52 PM
- - Stu   Looking at these images has made me ask again just...   Jan 17 2008, 06:36 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Here's a rough reprojection of today's l...   Jan 17 2008, 06:36 PM
- - elakdawalla   Really cool, Phil. This makes it obvious that the...   Jan 17 2008, 06:40 PM
- - Phil Stooke   That's my view too. Phil   Jan 17 2008, 08:34 PM
- - Stu   Don't you just love those craters with a centr...   Jan 17 2008, 09:19 PM
- - MarsIsImportant   First of all, I didn't say that that crater wa...   Jan 18 2008, 12:38 AM
- - marswiggle   A completely unprofessional attempt for our (and m...   Jan 18 2008, 02:05 AM
|- - john_s   QUOTE (marswiggle @ Jan 18 2008, 02:05 AM...   Jan 18 2008, 03:44 PM
- - Astro0   Great images coming down. Here's a context ima...   Jan 18 2008, 05:53 AM
- - Astro0   A fanciful view of the flyby for your desktop. E...   Jan 18 2008, 06:22 AM
- - Zvezdichko   I have a question that may be silly. We know that ...   Jan 18 2008, 10:16 AM
|- - tedstryk   These images have consistently shown things beyond...   Jan 18 2008, 12:18 PM
|- - ugordan   Yes, that's nothing but diffuse light off the ...   Jan 18 2008, 12:25 PM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE additionally quantized by one of the 8 looku...   Jan 18 2008, 12:27 PM
|- - ugordan   The newly released PDS volume has them listed and ...   Jan 18 2008, 12:31 PM
|- - tedstryk   You know, I was working with that data earlier, an...   Jan 18 2008, 12:35 PM
- - Doc   I at least do not see anything that looks like an ...   Jan 18 2008, 10:24 AM
- - nprev   ZV, sorry, I can't see anyhting either...but w...   Jan 18 2008, 12:11 PM
- - Ant103   And two more image http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/ga...   Jan 18 2008, 04:47 PM
- - Steve G   At the rate they're releasing the images, it w...   Jan 18 2008, 05:53 PM
|- - pioneer   QUOTE (Steve G @ Jan 18 2008, 05:53 PM) A...   Jan 18 2008, 05:57 PM
|- - ugordan   Here's context for that two-frame mosaic: L...   Jan 18 2008, 06:28 PM
- - elakdawalla   Can any of you mapmakers (Steve? Phil? Anyone) p...   Jan 18 2008, 06:27 PM
|- - scalbers   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 18 2008, 06:27 P...   Jan 18 2008, 07:24 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Just playing around, but here's a quick reproj...   Jan 18 2008, 09:33 PM
- - Phil Stooke   ... and the outbound image. Phil   Jan 18 2008, 10:00 PM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 18 2008, 10:12 PM
- - scalbers   Looks like a couple more of those double ringed cr...   Jan 18 2008, 10:30 PM
- - Stu   Fantastic images everyone, really appreciate all t...   Jan 18 2008, 10:47 PM
- - nprev   Might've said this before in some form, but I ...   Jan 18 2008, 11:03 PM
- - scalbers   Hey have a good break Stu. Regarding the idea of ...   Jan 18 2008, 11:06 PM
|- - ugordan   Very nice, Steve. Shows the inbound and outbound v...   Jan 18 2008, 11:07 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (scalbers @ Jan 18 2008, 03:06 PM) ...   Jan 19 2008, 12:58 AM
|- - tedstryk   This is a great - http://www.baltimoresun.com/news...   Jan 19 2008, 02:34 AM
- - dvandorn   My most overwhelming impression of the surface, es...   Jan 18 2008, 11:21 PM
|- - scalbers   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 18 2008, 11:21 PM) ...   Jan 19 2008, 04:03 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (scalbers @ Jan 19 2008, 10:03 AM) ...   Jan 19 2008, 06:02 PM
- - scalbers   Thanks Gordan. It turns out I (as usual) leave out...   Jan 18 2008, 11:25 PM
- - scalbers   And while we're at it, here's a first cut ...   Jan 18 2008, 11:44 PM
- - Bill Harris   Thank goodness that Mercury is not a sane and sens...   Jan 19 2008, 02:38 AM
- - peter59   Next image. EW0108825371G.png 512 x 508 pixels ??   Jan 19 2008, 03:10 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (peter59 @ Jan 19 2008, 04:10 PM) N...   Jan 19 2008, 04:57 PM
|- - scalbers   QUOTE (peter59 @ Jan 19 2008, 03:10 PM) N...   Jan 19 2008, 06:44 PM
||- - elakdawalla   It's sorta like this. --Emily   Jan 19 2008, 06:55 PM
|- - JTN   QUOTE (peter59 @ Jan 19 2008, 03:10 PM) E...   Jan 20 2008, 12:23 AM
- - JTN   And first altimeter results (although they don...   Jan 19 2008, 03:59 PM
- - MarcF   Caloris really looks like the palimpsests found on...   Jan 19 2008, 05:00 PM
- - scalbers   Interesting, we might compare Emily's footprin...   Jan 19 2008, 07:13 PM
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