Mercury mosaics from January 2008 Flyby |
Mercury mosaics from January 2008 Flyby |
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The raw data from MESSENGER's January 14, 2008 flyby of the planet Mercury are now online on NASA Planetary Data Service's website:
http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/data/messe...grmds_1001_new/ As such, I am proud to present a series of mosaics I have created using these raw images. These use the mosaic designs shown on the MESSENGER project's Mercury Flyby 1 Visualization Tool webpage. These mosaics were created in either Photoshop CS3 (using the Photomerge tool) or PTGui Pro (particularly for the two MASSIVE mosaics). Keep in mind that these mosaics are quite large in most cases, and it may be better just to right-click and save them to your hard drive to view them separately, rather than viewing them in your browser. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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You two should have your own show.
Outstanding. |
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There are several wide angle color frames of a similar region taken from varying vantage points and distances. I assembled them into an animated gif showing a sort of a fly-over from the nearest frame (shown above in the middle, but non-magnified this time) to the final global outbound color frame (at right above) for context. The amount of overlap is small so the region is pretty small, furthermore the first several frames are binned additionally lowering resolution.
The feature I centered the frames on is slightly to the left of center in the first couple of frames. It's a bit hard to track it in the more distant frames as the scale changes rapidly but you can catch it after a couple of repeats. North is to the left. Click image to play gif (1.2 meg): ![]() The final global image is deliberately slightly overexposed at the top to make the region of interest brighter. -------------------- |
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