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Jan. 16, 2008 | 13:31 PST | 21:31 UTC
New MESSENGER image release: Mercury at high resolution
Today's image release from the MESSENGER team is really gorgeous. I'd better go ahead and post it at the top before I start writing volumes:Click to enlarge >Vivaldi crater and environs from MESSENGERMESSENGER took this image of Mercury on January... More»
Jan. 15, 2008 | 22:22 PST | Jan. 16 06:22 UTC
Things I think are cool in the first MESSENGER image of Mercury
OK, the baby's in bed and I have time to examine the new face of Mercury. To review: this is the first image returned from MESSENGER following its first flyby of Mercury, on Monday, January 14, showing a face of Mercury not seen by Mariner 10... More»
Jan. 15, 2008 | 17:11 PST | Jan. 16 01:11 UTC
MESSENGER image released after all!
After much back and forth about whether this image was going to be received, and when it would be released, it was, in fact, released just now: our first view of the previously unseen face of Mercury!
I will have much much more to say about this... More»
Jan. 15, 2008 | 12:29 PST | 20:29 UTC
MESSENGER update: no image until tomorrow morning
One last edit to this entry (I promise); after a lot of back and forth about whether they were going to release the image tonight, it finally did get released. Here's my take on it.EDIT: Sorry for all my confusion -- don't expect an image until... More»
Jan. 14, 2008 | 11:45 PST | 19:45 UTC
MESSENGER's signal has been reacquired!
I just managed to get a phone call in to someone at MESSENGER's Science Operations Center and MESSENGER has been heard from, post-occultation; they've reacquired the signal from the spacecraft, they "saw the Doppler" (meaning they're tracking it and... More»
Jan. 14, 2008 | 10:26 PST | 18:26 UTC
MESSENGER has (probably) disappeared (but it's coming back)
The demands of my 17-month-old having forced me to stay in California and not travel to Baltimore to witness MESSENGER's first flyby of Mercury live from the science operations center at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, the... More»
Jan. 13, 2008 | 13:18 PST | 21:18 UTC
Just a million kilometers away
Here's the latest photo from Mercury (see my previous post for the three images preceding this one). There are a lot more features visible in this photo than there have been in previous photos; MESSENGER is getting close enough to resolve... More»
Jan. 12, 2008 | 09:00 PST | 17:00 UTC
The latest from Mercury
This image is just over a day old. In the time since it was taken and the time that I'm posting it MESSENGER has flown 300,000 kilometers closer to Mercury, 18% of the remaining distance....here we come! I'll follow this image with the two posted... More»
Jan. 11, 2008 | 15:31 PST | 23:31 UTC
Titan's south pole looks pretty dry
One of the major results from the Cassini mission last year was the production of a mosaic of images from its RADAR instrument covering Titan's north pole. Titan's north pole has lakes upon lakes, some big, some small, but everywhere you look,... More»
Jan. 11, 2008 | 10:45 PST | 18:45 UTC
Mercury's getting bigger...
Here's the next view from MESSENGER, taken 34 hours after the one I posted yesterday...I'll resist the urge to make an animation of the two images, waiting to see if any more will be released prior to the start of the flyby timeline at 13:04 (5:04... More»
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