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Sancho

(9,067 posts) Wed Apr 29, 2015, 08:52 AM Apr 2015

Astonishing images of Mercury captured by NASA spacecraft before smashing into planet

http://rt.com/news/253837-mercury-nasa-astonishing-images/

As Judgment Day approaches for NASA’s Messenger probe, stunning new pictures have emerged of the planet it is set to crash into on Thursday: Mercury.

The incredible close-up shots show our solar system’s smallest planet as never before.

The psychedelic appearance is explained by NASA overlaying the pictures from the spacecraft’s Visual and Infrared Spectrometer (Virs) onto a black and white mosaic in order to accentuate features such as craters and volcanic vents.

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Astonishing images of Mercury captured by NASA spacecraft before smashing into planet (Original Post) Sancho Apr 2015 OP

There's an app for that ... no, srsly! eppur_se_muova Apr 2015 #1

thanks Sancho Apr 2015 #2

eppur_se_muova

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1. There's an app for that ... no, srsly!

Reply to Sancho (Original post)

Wed Apr 29, 2015, 09:18 AM

Apr 2015

Go to http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/gallery.html and dl the app from the button on the left middle of the page. Or just pick images from the gallery on your Web browser.

Sancho

(9,067 posts)

2. thanks

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 29, 2015, 09:24 AM

Apr 2015

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