H-G Lindberg Feb 16, 2012
> Hi Hans-Goran,
>
> A "pretty new" map is included, and should be on by
> default. If you right-click on Mercury (or any planet
> or satellite), then on Display, then Options, you should
> get a dialog listing the available maps for that planet.
> For Mercury, the options should include "solid color",
> a MESSENGER/Mariner-based map, and an albedo map based
> on Earth-based observations.
>
> As far as I know, nobody has produced a cylindrically
> projected map of Mercury using the MESSENGER _orbital_ data.
> But maps have been produced using a combination of the _flyby_
> data and some Mariner 10 data, with some Arecibo radar data
> used to patch in coverage gaps. This is the default map for
> Mercury in Guide. You can see it at
>
> http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html
>
> ...where I see it says that "a south polar mosaic of MESSENGER
> images from orbit has recently been added." So I may have some
> fixing to do. Not to mention that I _assume_ that at some point,
> a stupendously detailed map or two of Mercury will be produced
> from the gigabytes of data returned by MESSENGER.
>
> -- Bill
>
> hglindberg wrote:
>> In the new ver 9 of Guide is the new maps from Messenger included
>> for Mercury?
>> h-g
>>
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