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post Oct 3 2008, 03:33 PM
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First image is here:
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post Oct 3 2008, 06:01 PM
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Enlargement & enhancement of Crescent Mercury.
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It looks like the Skinakas Basin exists after all, despite being written off, though it is still a bit too soon to jump to that conclusion. The crop & blow up I have just done shows a large feature foreshortened in the northern hemisphere. We will definitely know more tomorrow, as this afternoon's image will be approx 25% closer to Mercury than this one.

There also appears to be another large impact feature in the southern hemisphere. There is clearly a smattering of much smaller craters with bright ejecta blankets in the equatorial region.

Northern horn of crescent Mercury. Looks like there IS a large circular feature foreshortened. I think it is the suspected Skinakas Basin. Obviously we will know much more tomorrow as the second Navigation image will be down, from much closer in.
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Every feature here is new to human eyes, very interesting & exciting.

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post Oct 3 2008, 07:57 PM
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Here's another version of the new image.

Isn't Skinakas supposed to be a dark area? Nothing on here can be interpreted as a large impact basin or 'mare' from this image. I'm on record saying Skinakas doesn't exist - we will soon know.

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post Oct 4 2008, 12:25 AM
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This spacecraft is really, really exciting!

Please excuse the uninformed question, but what is Skinakas?
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post Oct 4 2008, 12:46 AM
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QUOTE (Vultur @ Oct 4 2008, 03:25 AM) *
Please excuse the uninformed question, but what is Skinakas?


Skinakas is actually a mountaintop in Crete hosting an observatory.

A short story of the proposed "basin" (unfortunately named after it) is found here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinakas_Basin
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post Oct 4 2008, 07:46 PM
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The next pic is up - here's an enlarged and processed version. A nice new basin in the south but nothing like that visible in the north.

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post Oct 4 2008, 10:45 PM
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And the next...

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The new southern basin's slightly lighter interior and dark spots suggest it might be a mini-Caloris.


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post Oct 4 2008, 11:49 PM
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Hi Phil,

Certainly Skinakas Does Not exist.

I really hope that the fifth image will be available soon.

That southern basin is impressive. Certainly is reminicent of a mini Caloris.

I've had a go at enlargening & sharpening each hemisphere from the original.

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post Oct 5 2008, 02:44 AM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 4 2008, 03:45 PM) *
The new southern basin's slightly lighter interior and dark spots suggest it might be a mini-Caloris.


Yeah, looks a lot like Tolstoj (that dark-rimmed bright-centered thing in the southern hemisphere on the limb in the flyby 1 departure images).

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post Oct 5 2008, 03:38 AM
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That's the one I was trying to think of. Thanks, Emily. Nice central peak on that basin too.


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post Oct 5 2008, 09:38 AM
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post Oct 5 2008, 10:29 AM
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Image # 5.
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#5 Image Northern Hemisphere.
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That basin is really coming into its own now. More dark spots are starting to appear on it's floor.

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post Oct 5 2008, 11:20 AM
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To me it looks less like a basin with dark spots, more like a basin with a mottled floor. Thats a bit pedentic I know but I wonder if there's a partial covering of dark lava flows on the basin (mottled) or if later impacts have excavated darker material (spots).


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post Oct 5 2008, 12:57 PM
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Caloris suggests an answer to your question!

Here's the last image in my style of processing.

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post Oct 5 2008, 02:55 PM
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The feature highlighted here may be another old impact basin, overlapped on the north side by a later double-ring basin.

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