MESSENGER orbital mission PDS data |
MESSENGER orbital mission PDS data |
Sep 8 2011, 05:47 PM
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MESSENGER has made its first data delivery from the science phase of the mission to the PDS!
Press release: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=182 Map interface: http://messenger-act.actgate.com/msgr_publ...t_quickmap.html Links to data directories: http://pds.nasa.gov/tools/subscription_ser...-20110908.shtml Have at it, guys! -------------------- |
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Sep 9 2011, 09:43 PM
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This is MESSENGER flyby false color overlaid on an image of this area - see how the orange patches coincide with the pits, including those on the big crater's rim.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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elakdawalla MESSENGER orbital mission PDS data Sep 8 2011, 05:47 PM
ugordan I must be doing something wrong because I can... Sep 8 2011, 06:27 PM
ugordan One snapshot, hard to find a good frame when no br... Sep 8 2011, 07:30 PM
ugordan One with a very low sun angle, again 2x:
Sep 8 2011, 08:06 PM
OWW Great work! Looks like that last one is the sa... Sep 8 2011, 08:18 PM
ugordan Yes, it looked familiar to me, particularly that o... Sep 8 2011, 08:32 PM
ugordan If you orbited high above Mercury, this is what yo... Sep 8 2011, 09:03 PM
elakdawalla QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 8 2011, 01:32 PM) Ye... Sep 9 2011, 01:24 PM
Phil Stooke Another way to use the global map interface - a mo... Sep 9 2011, 01:44 PM
kwp QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Sep 9 2011, 06:44 AM... Sep 9 2011, 07:38 PM
ngunn QUOTE (kwp @ Sep 9 2011, 08:38 PM) How we... Sep 9 2011, 10:32 PM
elakdawalla Pretty well. Mercury and the Moon are two very di... Sep 9 2011, 08:29 PM
Phil Stooke Thanks, Emily!
Yes... on the Moon there was a... Sep 9 2011, 09:35 PM
Phil Stooke Recent south pole images have filled in the whole ... Sep 19 2011, 08:38 PM
scalbers QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Sep 19 2011, 09:38 P... Oct 8 2011, 05:57 PM
tanjent Is it safe to assume that the dark "bullseye... Sep 20 2011, 05:05 PM
Phil Stooke Yes, it's the polar crater called Chao Meng-Fu... Sep 20 2011, 05:20 PM
Phil Stooke There's lots to see by browsing around that gl... Sep 25 2011, 07:55 PM
elakdawalla I just realized I hadn't started this thread i... Sep 29 2011, 03:45 PM
hendric Phil,
That to me looks like a Mt. St. Helens-sty... Sep 29 2011, 08:45 PM
Ittiz Have they released any good topographic data yet? Oct 25 2012, 09:08 PM
djellison Lots - http://geo.pds.nasa.gov/missions/messenger/... Oct 25 2012, 09:24 PM
Phil Stooke It's worth pointing out that the Mercury Laser... Oct 25 2012, 09:46 PM
Ittiz Yeah, I've seen that data. So basically it... Oct 26 2012, 01:20 PM
peter59 MESSENGER MDIS Release #9 is now available. (2012 ... Mar 13 2013, 09:41 PM
nprev That pic is a jaw-dropper, Peter! Mar 13 2013, 10:52 PM
Explorer1 Absolutely bizarre. And probably the best views we... Mar 14 2013, 05:22 AM![]() ![]() |
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