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Explore Mercury
Sep. 8th, 2011 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
steorraThe MESSENGER mission to Mercury has just released a neat map-exploring site. It includes two main kinds of maps: images of Mercury, and indications of which parts of Mercury its various instruments have observed and will observe. To view images of Mercury, the layers you probably want to look at are:
Basemaps > MESSENGER & Mariner 10 Mosaic (Covers most of the surface, uses images from Mariner 10 and the MESSENGER flybys of Mercury before it got into orbit.)
Global Mosaic Campaigns > MDIS 750 nm mosaic (PDS) (Covers probably more than half but less than three quarters of the surface at this point; images taken by MESSENGER in orbit around Mercury.)
You can also turn on and off a latitude/longitude grid, found under Location Overlays.
Basemaps > MESSENGER & Mariner 10 Mosaic (Covers most of the surface, uses images from Mariner 10 and the MESSENGER flybys of Mercury before it got into orbit.)
Global Mosaic Campaigns > MDIS 750 nm mosaic (PDS) (Covers probably more than half but less than three quarters of the surface at this point; images taken by MESSENGER in orbit around Mercury.)
You can also turn on and off a latitude/longitude grid, found under Location Overlays.
