Re: 1,259 days, 12 hours, 48 minutes, 44 seconds down ...



Can you folks suggest as to why these new and improved Messenger
images of Venus are making use of less than 10% of their dynamic
range? (perhaps as little DR as 5%)

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/pics/EW0108829708G.4release.jpg

- Brad Guth


On Jan 14, 11:05 am, nebu...@xxxxxxxxx (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
1,158 days, 11 hours, 54 minutes, 21 seconds to go, looks like,
until Mercury orbit insertion.

I'm glad to have any new pieces of Mercury to look at. It'd
always seemed so strange, growing up, that there would be pretty nice
maps of the planets out to Saturn but Mercury they just had the same
three-eights mapped again and again.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/main/index.html
is the page I'm using for the timing.

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Joseph Nebus
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