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Related: About this forumHigh Rez image of Mercury from MESSENGER probe
Last edited Thu Jan 17, 2013, 10:20 AM - Edit history (1)
Every now and then a new gem of a color-composite appears in the Flickr photostream of Gordan Ugarkovic, and this one is the latest to materialize.
This is a view of Mercury as seen by NASAs MESSENGER spacecraft during a flyby in October 2008. The image is a composite of twenty separate frames acquired with MESSENGERs narrow-angle camera from distances ranging from 18,900 to 17,700 kilometers and colorized with color data from the spacecrafts wide-angle camera. (North is to the right.)
The images that made up this mosaic were taken two and a half years before MESSENGER entered orbit around Mercury on March 19, 2011 UT, becoming the first spacecraft ever to do so and making Mercury the final classical planet to be orbited by a manmade spacecraft.
Since that time MESSENGER has completed well over 1,000 orbits and taken more than 100,000 images of the first planet in the Solar System, which filled in most of our gaps in Mercurys map and showed us many never-before-seen features of the planets Sun-scoured surface. And just this past year MESSENGERs extended mission helped confirm what could be called its most important discovery of all: water ice on Mercurys north pole.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/99451/a-hi-res-mosaic-of-mercurys-crescent/
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High Rez image of Mercury from MESSENGER probe (Original Post)
n2doc
Jan 2013
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muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)1. Why the silly misspellings in the title?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)2. Go ahead. You do better
I'll be watching.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)3. "Res"?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)4. Rez.
Do you need a better monitor? I did not err on that. I did misspell the name of the probe, which has been corrected.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)5. It looks horrible with a 'z'. It's text-speak.
It's as bad as 'kool'.