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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
- - PDP8E   wow...ted and bjorn and others nice work. I just ...   Jan 12 2008, 02:11 AM
- - alan   Jumping ahead somewhat, looking at the animation o...   Jan 12 2008, 06:11 AM
- - elakdawalla   Yup, flyby two is almost exactly 1.5 solar days af...   Jan 12 2008, 06:13 AM
|- - SFJCody   A third image is up: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/...   Jan 12 2008, 09:18 AM
|- - ugordan   Here's an animation of the OPNAV frames so far...   Jan 12 2008, 11:31 AM
|- - SFJCody   The images have been renamed. New links can be fou...   Jan 12 2008, 04:28 PM
- - imipak   The caption for the latest image caught my eye. QU...   Jan 12 2008, 07:20 PM
- - PDP8E   Here is the latest Mercury image from Messenger th...   Jan 12 2008, 09:58 PM
|- - tedstryk   Here is my latest on the newest image. These are ...   Jan 12 2008, 10:45 PM
|- - tedstryk   While we are waiting, I made a new stand-in red fi...   Jan 13 2008, 01:35 AM
|- - Bjorn Jonsson   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jan 13 2008, 01:35 AM) ...   Jan 13 2008, 03:07 AM
|- - SFJCody   Image 4 reveals *lots* more details! http://...   Jan 13 2008, 11:40 AM
|- - ugordan   The 4th image (based on spacecraft clock, it was t...   Jan 13 2008, 11:57 AM
- - nprev   Beautiful, Ted; thank you!!! Entire...   Jan 13 2008, 02:06 AM
- - volcanopele   An attempt at identifying some of the craters in t...   Jan 13 2008, 02:46 AM
- - Stu   My own humble attempt to find some detail in the n...   Jan 13 2008, 01:18 PM
|- - tedstryk   These are starting to get exciting.   Jan 13 2008, 02:50 PM
|- - dilo   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jan 13 2008, 03:50 PM) ...   Jan 13 2008, 10:28 PM
- - Zvezdichko   Where did you get that 4th image from? I can't...   Jan 13 2008, 02:03 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (Zvezdichko @ Jan 13 2008, 03:03 PM...   Jan 13 2008, 02:09 PM
- - Zvezdichko   The same image slightly sharpened by me using Imag...   Jan 13 2008, 03:10 PM
- - tasp   I am amazed at how much data we get on this first ...   Jan 13 2008, 03:24 PM
- - volcanopele   Another attempt at identifying the various craters...   Jan 13 2008, 07:41 PM
- - djellison   Quick anim of the 4 frames so far. Very exciting ...   Jan 13 2008, 10:45 PM
- - Stu   Latest picture...   Jan 13 2008, 11:50 PM
- - Stu   Cropped and messed about with a bit...   Jan 13 2008, 11:56 PM
- - volcanopele   Getting closer. This one really shows quite a bit...   Jan 14 2008, 01:35 AM
|- - gndonald   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Jan 14 2008, 10:35 A...   Jan 14 2008, 02:29 PM
- - belleraphon1   Hello, Mercury, old friend.... good to be back.....   Jan 14 2008, 01:38 AM
- - Phil Stooke   This already fills a small gap in the Mariner 10 m...   Jan 14 2008, 01:42 AM
- - volcanopele   I think we may have already learned something new....   Jan 14 2008, 01:56 AM
|- - tedstryk   I processed it and colorized it based on my Marine...   Jan 14 2008, 02:08 AM
- - volcanopele   Celestia helped nail down these crater idents:   Jan 14 2008, 03:48 AM
- - deglr6328   I am seeing numerous news reports that 700 GBytes ...   Jan 14 2008, 03:54 AM
|- - ustrax   Bigger and bigger!... MERCURY FLYBY1 PARTY ...   Jan 14 2008, 09:15 AM
||- - ugordan   Wow, that last image really shows detail. Looks li...   Jan 14 2008, 09:22 AM
||- - jsheff   QUOTE (ustrax @ Jan 14 2008, 04:15 AM) Bi...   Jan 14 2008, 07:35 PM
||- - ustrax   Thanks John! Not that I know of, and you...   Jan 14 2008, 07:37 PM
|||- - jsheff   QUOTE (ustrax @ Jan 14 2008, 02:37 PM) Th...   Jan 14 2008, 07:43 PM
||- - tedstryk   One last approach image.   Jan 14 2008, 07:46 PM
|- - Pedro_Sondas   QUOTE (deglr6328 @ Jan 14 2008, 04:54 AM)...   Jan 14 2008, 03:25 PM
|- - deglr6328   QUOTE (Pedro_Sondas @ Jan 14 2008, 03:25 ...   Jan 14 2008, 08:00 PM
|- - ustrax   Some difficulties accessing MESSENGER's site.....   Jan 14 2008, 08:07 PM
|- - ugordan   Emily, the caption under your animation at the blo...   Jan 14 2008, 08:11 PM
||- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jan 14 2008, 12:11 PM) E...   Jan 14 2008, 09:06 PM
||- - ugordan   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 14 2008, 10:06 P...   Jan 14 2008, 11:18 PM
|- - Bjorn Jonsson   QUOTE (ustrax @ Jan 14 2008, 08:07 PM) So...   Jan 14 2008, 08:18 PM
- - Stu   To any of the MESSENGER team lurking out there... ...   Jan 14 2008, 12:06 PM
- - NMRguy   Details, indeed! There's no question that...   Jan 14 2008, 12:13 PM
- - Ant103   A version of this latest image, magnified by 2, sh...   Jan 14 2008, 03:51 PM
- - Thu   So thrilling, the images just keep coming, bigger ...   Jan 14 2008, 05:08 PM
- - mhall   There was some chat a few days ago, regarding the ...   Jan 14 2008, 06:29 PM
- - djellison   WOooooosh Time Until Closest Approach: 00:00:08 (...   Jan 14 2008, 07:06 PM
- - Sunspot   Lets hope everything worked as planned. can...   Jan 14 2008, 07:15 PM
- - elakdawalla   They made a video of the approach images, includin...   Jan 14 2008, 07:22 PM
- - kenny   If you're not doing so already, this is worth ...   Jan 14 2008, 07:28 PM
|- - ustrax   Signal reacquired! According to Noam Izenb...   Jan 14 2008, 07:35 PM
- - elakdawalla   Got a phone call in to the science operations cent...   Jan 14 2008, 07:48 PM
- - djellison   This is just as exciting as the Apple keynote tomo...   Jan 14 2008, 07:49 PM
- - lyford   3 cheers for Doppler! Hip Hip Horaaaaaaaaaaaa...   Jan 14 2008, 07:50 PM
- - elakdawalla   Don't forget that there are a pile of other in...   Jan 14 2008, 08:07 PM
- - kenny   Not the visualisation tool, which shows it just co...   Jan 14 2008, 08:10 PM
- - kenny   Well, watching that encounter visualisation tool o...   Jan 14 2008, 08:54 PM
- - MarsIsImportant   It's only approximately 18 hours until the spa...   Jan 14 2008, 11:08 PM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 14 2008, 11:20 PM
- - elakdawalla   I just received a cryptic comment from a MESSENGER...   Jan 14 2008, 11:40 PM
- - stevesliva   Hopefully there's a nice fat belt of mountains...   Jan 14 2008, 11:41 PM
|- - ugordan   Hmmm... To what effect more successful?! Only ...   Jan 14 2008, 11:44 PM
- - Stu   Hmmm, maybe they detected a moon...   Jan 14 2008, 11:47 PM
- - volcanopele   Early reports suggested that the C/A point ended u...   Jan 14 2008, 11:52 PM
|- - ugordan   Any idea how much farther away? It's a longsho...   Jan 14 2008, 11:54 PM
- - volcanopele   Not sure. The Reuters article on the flyby mentio...   Jan 15 2008, 12:03 AM
- - Phil Stooke   JRehling said: "... time for last-minute pre...   Jan 15 2008, 12:19 AM
|- - tedstryk   My hope is that they found some sort of unexpected...   Jan 15 2008, 12:48 AM
- - nprev   Just home from work; glad to see that everything w...   Jan 15 2008, 01:00 AM
- - dvandorn   Ummm... if CA was appreciably different from plann...   Jan 15 2008, 05:46 AM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 15 2008, 06:05 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 15 2008, 05:46 AM) ...   Jan 15 2008, 08:28 AM
|- - ugordan   Plus, the latest image is from Jan 13, 06:34 UTC, ...   Jan 15 2008, 08:33 AM
- - IM4   By the way a strange faint dot can be seen in the ...   Jan 15 2008, 06:47 AM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 15 2008, 07:37 AM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (IM4 @ Jan 15 2008, 06:47 AM) By th...   Jan 15 2008, 10:43 AM
- - climber   I thought the same JRehling but, as MESSENGER was ...   Jan 15 2008, 08:08 AM
- - Horsell_Common   It's not entirely impossible. But then again, ...   Jan 15 2008, 11:15 AM
|- - Doc   QUOTE (Horsell_Common @ Jan 15 2008, 02:1...   Jan 15 2008, 11:33 AM
|- - ugordan   It doesn't match any bright star according to ...   Jan 15 2008, 11:36 AM
- - FordPrefect   I've read that new images will be presented to...   Jan 15 2008, 11:21 AM
- - edstrick   The mad bandpass filter image processer strikes ag...   Jan 15 2008, 11:51 AM
- - Doc   Then it is most likely an imaging artifact. Or may...   Jan 15 2008, 11:55 AM
|- - ustrax   If it is a moon it has to be poor Krokus! Merc...   Jan 15 2008, 12:07 PM
|- - tedstryk   I think that the likely explanation from the data ...   Jan 15 2008, 12:10 PM
|- - ustrax   Just grab me! I'm delirating! B...   Jan 15 2008, 12:38 PM
- - Doc   All this talk about a probable moon brings about a...   Jan 15 2008, 12:34 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Dec: "All this talk about a probable moon bri...   Jan 15 2008, 12:45 PM
|- - Doc   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 15 2008, 03:45 P...   Jan 15 2008, 12:56 PM
- - Stu   Guys, guys... forget moons and Earth... look at th...   Jan 15 2008, 01:20 PM
- - Stu   I don't know if this means anything or not, bu...   Jan 15 2008, 01:30 PM
- - ugordan   That would be the diffuse light halo off of Mercur...   Jan 15 2008, 01:35 PM
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