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MESSENGER Primary Mission Phase, data acquisition and discussion

nprev View Member Profile	Apr 1 2011, 02:05 AM Post #1
Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602	Thought it was time to start a new thread, since MESSENGER has definitely arrived! Reserved for post-commissioning observations. -------------------- 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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elakdawalla View Member Profile	Jun 16 2011, 05:26 PM Post #2
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454	I had to answer my door and missed what Sean Solomon said about water ice at the poles. Did anybody hear? -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.

Hungry4info View Member Profile	Jun 16 2011, 05:52 PM Post #3
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1417 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270	QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jun 16 2011, 11:26 AM) Did anybody hear? They used altimetry to produce a model of one of the craters, then modelled sunlight around the crater to see where the permanantly shaded areas are, and found that they do coincide with the radar-reflective areas - consistent with the ice interpretation. -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)

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nprev MESSENGER Primary Mission Phase Apr 1 2011, 02:05 AM

Holder of the Two Leashes Prime mission underway. Update Apr 5 2011, 05:13 AM

Phil Stooke Astro0's mosaic from the end of the previous t... Apr 5 2011, 02:53 PM

Explorer1 Just saw this: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/update... Apr 5 2011, 09:29 PM

djellison A bad enough hit could kill any spacecraft, especi... Apr 5 2011, 09:40 PM

Alan S I see the probe is making passes over the north po... Apr 11 2011, 04:18 AM

Phil Stooke From: http://www.scribd.com/doc/48850455/Messenge... Apr 11 2011, 12:02 PM

Holder of the Two Leashes First laser track made from orbit has been release... Apr 26 2011, 10:10 PM

OWW Announcement on the Messenger website: QUOTE June... Jun 2 2011, 11:25 PM

JohnVV QUOTE BTW, has anybody noticed, in the narrow angl... Jun 2 2011, 11:50 PM

elakdawalla The "JPEG" compression artifacts are lik... Jun 3 2011, 02:48 AM

JGodbaz Does anyone have any idea where to find the descri... Jun 3 2011, 11:25 AM

tanjent It looks comparable in quality to what the Surveyo... Jun 3 2011, 11:07 AM

Holder of the Two Leashes NASA is going to have a science update June 16th o... Jun 7 2011, 05:47 AM

Paolo that looks like a press briefing just before publi... Jun 7 2011, 05:18 PM

nprev Based on the surprisingly large variety of small-s... Jun 7 2011, 10:47 PM

Holder of the Two Leashes Initial results are being announced today, some of... Jun 16 2011, 04:52 PM

elakdawalla I had to answer my door and missed what Sean Solom... Jun 16 2011, 05:26 PM

Hungry4info QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jun 16 2011, 11:26 A... Jun 16 2011, 05:52 PM

jasedm Missing raw image access on this mission - I think... Jun 16 2011, 05:32 PM

Holder of the Two Leashes Solomon also repeated his statements at the end, i... Jun 16 2011, 05:55 PM

elakdawalla Oooh. Cool. Thanks for the summary. There's... Jun 16 2011, 06:03 PM

Phil Stooke I love the pictures of the small volcanic vents. ... Jun 16 2011, 06:09 PM

ElkGroveDan Anyone know if there is a link to a video replay o... Jun 16 2011, 07:08 PM

Oersted Here you go: http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.or... Jun 18 2011, 12:54 AM

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