Re: Mercury Map


"Strange Creature" <strangecreature7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I am interested in what Mercury maps are out there of the
> entire surface. I have been lead to believe that there have
> been limited missions to Mercury to date, that have gotten
> only a portion of the surface, however Mercury is very
> close and if you aimed Hubble or a lot of other equipment
> at Mercury you could probably come up with at least moderate
> maps of it at least under some circumstances. Do any of
> you have any internet links to complete maps of Mercury
> (including non-space probe data)? How good are they?

Here are a few photos, not sure about maps:

http://www.nineplanets.org/pxmerc.html

George


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