MESSENGER Global Mercury Mosaic, Based on flybys 1, 2, and 3 (plus M10) |
MESSENGER Global Mercury Mosaic, Based on flybys 1, 2, and 3 (plus M10) |
Feb 11 2011, 01:30 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 259 Joined: 23-January 05 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 156 |
Small, rocky, no atmosphere - why would you expect them to be substantially different in appearance? On a similar note, what about Vesta? Excluding features resulting from the impact that created a structure nearly as big in diameter as Vesta itself, would you expect it to look much different?
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Feb 11 2011, 04:15 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 555 Joined: 27-September 10 Member No.: 5458 |
Maybe mystified was a poor word choice; maybe interesting would be better. There are few, really large rocky bodies to compare and all of them have somewhat unique characteristics. As for Vesta, looking at Hubble images, I'm not at all sure what it would look like up close, but possibly somewhat similar.
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Aug 20 2011, 04:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Greetings,
Here is an updated version of my global map with several improvements, including the addition of ugordan's flyby 1 outbound mosiac. Full size is here: http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html#MERCURY That's the latest, Steve -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Aug 21 2011, 10:41 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 146 Joined: 23-August 06 From: Vriezenveen, Netherlands Member No.: 1067 |
Great work! Can we expect more updates in the future?
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Aug 22 2011, 12:23 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Excellent!
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Oct 10 2011, 08:04 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Great work! Can we expect more updates in the future? Thanks - and yes indeed - here is the latest with more south polar coverage (from orbital data) and improved image navigation: Steve -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Oct 10 2011, 08:52 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
Am i seeing things or is there an anaglyph at -60 S and - 60 w
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Oct 22 2011, 04:39 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Good eye John - would be nice to have a 3-D map though
My latest version (linked in signature below) should have fewer of this type of artifact. It is also now 8K in size so finer details can be seen. -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Oct 24 2011, 04:30 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10227 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Not to leave the north pole out... this is a mosaic showing the region not yet seen in published images. The outer edge is 45 north. It takes a while to fill in the north because the images cover a lot less ground.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Oct 24 2011, 04:56 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Phil, your mosaic may contain the answer to a question I was just asking myself this morning...have any images yet been released to the PDS that include the flow and scour features identified in Head et al.'s paper about the north polar lava flows?
Here's the diagram from their paper. It was released at very low resolution, and I asked if there were plans to release it at higher resolution, and they said not until a paper yet to be submitted to (I think) Icarus was published. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14848 --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Oct 24 2011, 05:33 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10227 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
If you look closely you will see that area at about the 2:00 position, out near the edge of my map.
I think the images from that paper are not yet released, but the feature was seen with low resolution and higher sun during one of the flybys. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Oct 24 2011, 07:01 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10227 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
If you go to the MESSENGER Quickmap:
http://messenger-act.actgate.com/msgr_publ...t_quickmap.html ... and zoom in on 59 north, 110 east (NW of Caloris), you can see the area. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Oct 24 2011, 08:27 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Huh, so you can. Thanks.
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Oct 28 2011, 01:40 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10227 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
The latest MESSENGER picture of the day is a global (or almost so) mosaic, very nice. I expect it to be incorporated into Quickmap eventually, so it can be zoomed into more than the current release allows.
Phil http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/scienc...mp;image_id=681 -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Oct 28 2011, 01:46 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10227 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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