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 Feb 8 2008, 10:50 PM
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Feb 8 2008, 11:02 PM
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One interesting feature MESSENGER will get a good look at during the second flyby is the area of Mercury's surface dubbed 'Weird Terrain.'
This jumbled region of the planet's surface is antipodal to Caloris and marks the focal point of seismic waves generated by the impact. Mariner 10 only saw half of this disturbed region, so I'm looking forward to seeing just how much havoc Caloris wreaked on the other side of Mercury. I wonder if a good look at the Weird Terrain will yeild any new info about Mercury's interior? (at least at the time of the Caloris impact). -------------------- It's a funny old world - A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. - W.C. Fields.
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Holder of the Two Leashes Mercury Flyby 2 Feb 8 2008, 10:50 PM
Decepticon Do we get any polar regions imaged during any of t... Feb 9 2008, 02:28 AM Dominik That's something I'm also interested in . Feb 9 2008, 03:26 AM CAP-Team I think you'll have to wait for that till the ... Feb 9 2008, 10:41 AM
JRehling The flybys are all near-equatorial and, moreover, ... Feb 10 2008, 04:53 AM tasp I recognize there are some controversial views reg... Feb 9 2008, 02:35 PM tty QUOTE (tasp @ Feb 9 2008, 03:35 PM) I rec... Feb 10 2008, 01:38 AM Mariner9 I was reading an article on Spacedaily, and ran ac... Feb 11 2008, 04:26 PM JRehling Mariner 10 viewed 45% of Mercury. By these numbers... Feb 11 2008, 05:52 PM Phil Stooke I'm pretty sure it means 33% of the blank area... Feb 11 2008, 11:23 PM Holder of the Two Leashes Just one year (88 earth days) to go. Jul 10 2008, 03:14 PM Holder of the Two Leashes MESSENGER is solar sailing its way in to Mercury, ... Sep 7 2008, 03:23 AM dilo QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Sep 7 2008... Sep 8 2008, 12:09 AM Greg Hullender Although flyby #2 largely covers territory already... Sep 7 2008, 11:09 PM Holder of the Two Leashes Apparently this is the first time the technique ha... Sep 8 2008, 01:00 AM dmuller With the second flyby now just a month away, I hav... Sep 8 2008, 12:44 PM elakdawalla I have from a very reliable source the current be... Sep 8 2008, 11:45 PM dmuller QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Sep 9 2008, 09:45 AM... Sep 9 2008, 12:14 AM peter59 Press Kit: MESSENGER Mercury Flyby 2 (PDF) Sep 12 2008, 08:56 PM Decepticon Is there a flyby preview video available? Sep 13 2008, 10:54 PM dmuller The Messenger website says that there will be (if ... Sep 15 2008, 03:34 AM peter59 Mercury Flyby 2 Visualization Tool
http://messeng... Sep 25 2008, 09:40 PM leper QUOTE (peter59 @ Sep 26 2008, 07:40 AM) M... Sep 29 2008, 12:35 AM peter59
NAC Departure Mosaic #2
NAC Departure Mosaic #... Sep 25 2008, 10:01 PM charborob This page shows the part of Mercury that will be i... Sep 29 2008, 02:49 PM Greg Hullender QUOTE (charborob @ Sep 29 2008, 07:49 AM)... Oct 2 2008, 03:10 PM peter59 New: Mercury Flyby 2 Instrument Operations.
http:/... Sep 30 2008, 03:40 PM PhilCo126 That's great Peter!
The second Mercury fl... Oct 2 2008, 09:25 AM vjkane I hope that someone eventually publishes a map sho... Oct 2 2008, 05:59 PM peter59 First image is here:
Acquired: October 3, 2008 Oct 3 2008, 03:33 PM 3488 Enlargement & enhancement of Crescent Mercury.... Oct 3 2008, 06:01 PM Phil Stooke Here's another version of the new image.
Isn... Oct 3 2008, 07:57 PM Vultur This spacecraft is really, really exciting!
P... Oct 4 2008, 12:25 AM TheChemist QUOTE (Vultur @ Oct 4 2008, 03:25 AM) Ple... Oct 4 2008, 12:46 AM Phil Stooke The next pic is up - here's an enlarged and pr... Oct 4 2008, 07:46 PM Phil Stooke And the next...
Phil
The new southern basin... Oct 4 2008, 10:45 PM 3488 Hi Phil,
Certainly Skinakas Does Not exist.
I re... Oct 4 2008, 11:49 PM elakdawalla QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 4 2008, 03:45 PM... Oct 5 2008, 02:44 AM volcanopele That's the one I was trying to think of. Than... Oct 5 2008, 03:38 AM n1ckdrake Getting closer.
Oct 5 2008, 09:38 AM 3488 Image # 5.
#5 Image Northern Hemisphere.
#... Oct 5 2008, 10:29 AM marsbug To me it looks less like a basin with dark spots, ... Oct 5 2008, 11:20 AM Phil Stooke Caloris suggests an answer to your question!
... Oct 5 2008, 12:57 PM Phil Stooke The feature highlighted here may be another old im... Oct 5 2008, 02:55 PM Marz
Hoping someone can clue me in on what we're ... Oct 5 2008, 05:03 PM Juramike The shading on the southern basin towards the term... Oct 5 2008, 05:56 PM remcook i agree. it looks more like the edge of olympus mo... Oct 5 2008, 06:01 PM dvandorn Hmmm... no Skinakas? I see arc-shaped lobes of d... Oct 5 2008, 06:41 PM ed_lomeli QUOTE (dvandorn @ Oct 5 2008, 10:41 AM) H... Oct 7 2008, 02:03 PM ugordan http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/scienc...mp;im... Oct 7 2008, 02:09 PM volcanopele Looks like a good sized impact basin to me. Thoug... Oct 5 2008, 06:43 PM Phil Stooke The odd shading in the southern basin is most easi... Oct 5 2008, 06:50 PM dvandorn I almost decided it was a chance alignment of crat... Oct 5 2008, 06:51 PM Holder of the Two Leashes QUOTE (dvandorn @ Oct 5 2008, 01:51 PM) I... Oct 5 2008, 08:14 PM Rob Pinnegar QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Oct 5 2008... Oct 6 2008, 12:04 AM Fran Ontanaya It will be interesting to see if there are volcano... Oct 5 2008, 07:24 PM Phil Stooke My opinion is that Skinakas is nothing more than a... Oct 6 2008, 12:22 AM dmuller Just over 8 hrs to closest approach, Messenger is ... Oct 6 2008, 12:24 AM Hungry4info A new picture appeared.
http://messenger.jhuapl.ed... Oct 6 2008, 12:49 AM volcanopele Very nice. Now high enough res to actually do som... Oct 6 2008, 12:59 AM Juramike Arrgh. VP beat me to it!
Anyway here's m... Oct 6 2008, 01:15 AM Ian R Here's a rough attempt at generating an overhe... Oct 6 2008, 01:22 PM Ken90000 Close Approach has passed. Is there any news abou... Oct 6 2008, 02:15 PM djellison The spacecraft doesn't start downlinking for s... Oct 6 2008, 02:15 PM Ken90000 Thanks.
I just figured the spacecraft would be mo... Oct 6 2008, 03:57 PM Greg Hullender They have an update
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/n... Oct 6 2008, 06:14 PM imipak QUOTE (Greg Hullender)The first pictures from the ... Oct 6 2008, 07:11 PM Phil Stooke This is a rough fit of the inbound coverage to Ste... Oct 6 2008, 07:59 PM Phil Stooke ... and here is the last image from the first enco... Oct 6 2008, 08:12 PM Juramike Combination of Phil Stooke's image and my imag... Oct 6 2008, 10:09 PM Astro0 Just waiting for the latest images from Messenger ... Oct 7 2008, 06:52 AM dmuller hey Astro0 ... there's no USB plug on that thi... Oct 7 2008, 07:07 AM n1ckdrake New image of Mercury.
Oct 7 2008, 11:59 AM tedstryk That is amazing! It has the feel of this Mari... Oct 7 2008, 12:17 PM remcook ooo..stripy!
link for description:
http://mess... Oct 7 2008, 12:18 PM 3488 It is indeed.!!!!!!
I... Oct 7 2008, 12:40 PM ugordan A collage of 4 views of Mercury provided by MESSEN... Oct 7 2008, 12:41 PM Pavel Can we say that Skinakas doesn't exist? I don... Oct 7 2008, 01:47 PM Phil Stooke Skinakas was a ray-free area of cratered terrain, ... Oct 7 2008, 02:15 PM gndonald It looks like Tycho's all over...
The first c... Oct 7 2008, 02:16 PM gndonald The level of detail in pic 217 looks eerily like a... Oct 7 2008, 02:22 PM Phil Stooke Here's the oblique view reprojected.
Phil
Oct 7 2008, 02:27 PM Juramike QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 7 2008, 10:27 AM... Oct 7 2008, 02:31 PM tedstryk Here is Ugordan's montage with the Mariner 10 ... Oct 7 2008, 07:23 PM ugordan Awesome, Ted! Oct 7 2008, 07:58 PM tedstryk QUOTE (ugordan @ Oct 7 2008, 07:58 PM) Aw... Oct 7 2008, 08:02 PM peter59 Next image set:
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/galler... Oct 8 2008, 03:20 PM Juramike From caption for this image:
QUOTE "The crate... Oct 8 2008, 03:35 PM djellison Was the processing loud? Oct 8 2008, 03:50 PM elakdawalla Here's an updated version of my context map. ... Oct 8 2008, 03:58 PM Greg Hullender In the "are we there yet" spirit, given ... Oct 8 2008, 04:41 PM Phil Stooke Here's a reprojection of the smooth plains ima... Oct 8 2008, 04:47 PM Ian R QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 8 2008, 05:47 PM... Oct 8 2008, 07:28 PM Phil Stooke ... and another one of the northern limb. This ki... Oct 8 2008, 05:01 PM Juramike Is it just me or does almost every other "fre... Oct 8 2008, 05:09 PM nprev QUOTE (Juramike @ Oct 8 2008, 09:09 AM) I... Oct 8 2008, 10:41 PM Greg Hullender QUOTE (Juramike @ Oct 8 2008, 09:09 AM) I... Oct 9 2008, 04:48 AM Stu Mercury's starting to look a lot like one of C... Oct 8 2008, 08:04 PM Phil Stooke The Vivaldi release - showing that the same crater... Oct 9 2008, 12:43 PM |
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