Mercury's Western Hemisphere from Messenger's Second Flyby

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Mercury's Western Hemisphere from Messenger's Second Flyby

Post by bystander » Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:49 pm

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/2859 ... img5.4.jpg

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messe ... 81029.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messe ... index.html

nasa.gov News Release 08-275 2008 Oct 29
MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory on Mercury
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/oc ... rcury.html

Space.com 2008 Oct 29
Mercury Flyby Reveals New Oddities
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0 ... pdate.html

Astronomy.com 2008 Oct 29
MESSENGER reveals more of Mercury's hidden territory
Scientists have now seen about 95 percent of the innermost planet
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=7560

ScienceNews 2008 Oct 29
MESSENGER glimpses Mercury’s Western hemisphere, new features
The results are in from MESSENGER’s second flyby of Mercury
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic ... w_features

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