[meteorite-list] MESSENGER Dances by Matisse

From: Jerry <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:13:42 -0500
Message-ID: <157362FBE07B4C7EA17E2967AD8A0730_at_Notebook>

Anyone see any impact chains?
Jerry Flaherty
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Subject: [meteorite-list] MESSENGER Dances by Matisse


>
> http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/status_report_01_23_08.html
>
> MESSENGER Mission News
> January 23, 2008
>
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> MESSENGER Dances by Matisse
>
> As MESSENGER approached Mercury on January 14, 2008, the Narrow Angle
> Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) snapped this
> image
> <http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=134>
> of the crater Matisse. Named for the French artist Henri Matisse, the
> Matisse crater was imaged during the Mariner 10 mission and is about 210
> kilometers (130 miles) in diameter. Matisse crater is in the southern
> hemisphere and can be seen near the terminator of the planet (the line
> between the sunlit, day side and the dark, night side) in both the color
> <http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=132>
> and single-filter, black-and-white
> <http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?page=1&gallery_id=2&image_id=123>
> images released previously that show an overview of the entire incoming
> side of Mercury.
>
> On Mercury, craters are named for people, now deceased, who have made
> contributions to the humanities, such as artists, musicians, painters,
> and authors. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) oversees the
> official process of naming new craters and other new features discovered
> on bodies throughout the solar system. Scientists studying and mapping
> unnamed features can suggest names for consideration by the IAU. The
> 1,213 images taken by MESSENGER during its first flyby encounter with
> Mercury cover a large region of Mercury's surface previously unseen by
> spacecraft, revealing many new craters and other features that will need
> to be named.
>
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>
> Additional information and features from MESSENGER's first flyby of
> Mercury are online at http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/mer_flyby1.html.
>
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>
> MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and
> Ranging) is a NASA-sponsored scientific investigation of the planet
> Mercury and the first space mission designed to orbit the planet closest
> to the Sun. The MESSENGER spacecraft launched on August 3, 2004, and
> after flybys of Earth, Venus, and Mercury will start a yearlong study of
> its target planet in March 2011. Dr. Sean C. Solomon, of the Carnegie
> Institution of Washington, leads the mission as principal investigator.
> The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built and
> operates the MESSENGER spacecraft and manages this Discovery -class
> mission for NASA.
>
>
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