MESSENGER ARRIVES, Mercury Orbit Insertion |
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 Mar 18 2011, 07:49 PM
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You got half right, Nick!
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Mar 18 2011, 08:57 PM
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The moon looks like an oddly colored earth-based view, Titan is clearly from Cassini. I will ignore the others, since that really wouldn't be fair.
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Mar 18 2011, 09:13 PM
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The Mercury view is Mariner 10 - you can see the Caloris basin on the terminator.
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Mar 18 2011, 11:13 PM
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Congrats to the Messenger team and their new in-house poet, Stu!
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Mar 19 2011, 01:57 AM
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"The challenge for us uber-geeks is to know just from looking at them which spacecraft was responsible for each image. "
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Mar 19 2011, 04:23 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Mercury: Mariner 10; Moon, an Earth-based photographer (sorry, that was a trick one); the Galileans all from Galileo; Titan from Cassini; Triton from Voyager 2.
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Mar 19 2011, 05:17 AM
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Successfully named orbs, but camera names - not...hopefully,a few more years of UMSF, PS and AmateurSpaceImages etc., should take good care of that!
Congrats to the MESSENGER team, looking forward to the images. -------------------- 'She drove until the wheels fell off...'
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Mar 19 2011, 10:05 AM
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a few days old
I have been ill QUOTE Good to know! I tried getting MESSENGER to work in Celestia with the spice kernels available from the PDS, but it keeps balking same here there is some "odd" thing going on i has been a few months but right now celestia thinks it is out by mars right now i am thinkint to just skip the first 3 trips around and use only the CURRENT and forward then fix it . - quote from "CAP-Team" QUOTE @Volcanopele you can find good spice kernels on the NAIF FTP site in the PDS folder for use in Celestia, including the main mission period. for those here that do not know that address ftp://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/pds/data/ |
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Mar 19 2011, 04:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
The Messenger site has updated the "Where is Messenger" page with seven new views, including the Messenger ground track. Check it out.
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/whereis/index.php --Greg |
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Mar 19 2011, 05:32 PM
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Though I'm a little late to the thread, I'd like to congratulate everyone involved on a job well-done.
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Mar 20 2011, 09:31 AM
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 congrats to the messenger team..a job well done!
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Mar 20 2011, 04:09 PM
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I can't load Greg's "where is Messenger" link. Maybe the site is taking a well-deserved weekend's rest along with the personnel?
In the temporary absence of photographic evidence of Messenger's arrival, we'll have to stave off our hunger by consuming a week's worth of sims. Will try again Monday. |
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Mar 20 2011, 05:02 PM
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My eyes are getting thirsty for pics!!
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Mar 20 2011, 07:34 PM
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The link is fine on my end.
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Mar 20 2011, 08:10 PM
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It isn't going to take pictures until March 29, so don't hold your breath.
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