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- Proctor, on 01/31/2008, -2/+111Space is in Greyscale
- CapeKid, on 01/31/2008, -4/+89That's no moon...
- spyd3rweb, on 01/31/2008, -22/+96Hasn't NASA ever heard of COLOR photos.
- DaveMN, on 01/31/2008, -2/+53Surprising: A large, black monolith.
Not Surprising: A lifeless, cratered hunk of rock. - Spuds2600, on 01/31/2008, -8/+55What makes you think that Mercury is anything other than grey?
- ogore, on 01/31/2008, -1/+43It's probably infrared
- inactive, on 01/31/2008, -1/+38Reply button. Use it.
- atomicwedgie, on 01/31/2008, -2/+37Some of you act as if this as easy as exploring your own back yard. Perhaps to you this is insignificant but then again perhaps you're not a NASA Engineer and fail to see the importance of such a thing. I am NOT a NASA Engineer but I can see some shred of significance here.
- johnnysaucepn, on 01/31/2008, -3/+37No, no, no. The Spider's From Mars.
- Jektal, on 01/31/2008, -0/+33They did take some color photos this time - the grayscale ones are almost identical
- norle, on 01/31/2008, -1/+24Dugg for creative NASA eggheaded acronym:
MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) - inactive, on 01/31/2008, -1/+22Pictures PLEASE??? (1200 photos taken, and I don't get to see a single one of them?)
- jasg, on 01/31/2008, -1/+19looks like it is made of cement, and those rings you see are not due to meteors hitting the planet, but by the mother ship and other small ships used by the locals for landing.
- Kythas, on 01/31/2008, -1/+19Intelligent and consice comments will not be tolerated on Digg.
- Brian48216, on 01/31/2008, -2/+20NASA does take color photos, but remember that color photos are always larger in size then grayscale.
In space probes, there are 3 things that are always at a premium-
Propellant
Power
and Bandwidth.
The data link is ridiculously slow. It's easier to shoot down a grayscale image then a full blown color image right now. - stevealford, on 01/31/2008, -11/+27I'm really not trying to be pedantic here; this is an honest question. How can you write so intelligently and so well-informed about a topic like this, but not know the difference between "then" and "than?" The first time you did it, I figured it was probably a typo... but then you went two-for-two.
I suspect I'll be buried for being a spelling/grammar nazi, but I'm not trying to be an ass: I really just wanted to know. It's getting to be kind of annoying to see apparently smart people making these same mistakes that we see from the texting generation (sadly it's MY generation, to be precise). No disrespect was intended. - b0wl0fud0n, on 01/31/2008, -0/+16MESSENGER's Wide Angle Camera (WAC), part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), is equipped with 11 narrow-band color filters. The color image was generated by combining the mosaics taken through the WAC filters that transmit light at wavelengths of 1000 nanometers (infrared), 700 nanometers (far red), and 430 nanometers (violet).
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/images/prock ...
The spider:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/05Lkc2YeWm55T/Mercury ... - Pittance, on 01/31/2008, -0/+11Nah, just explain your complex theory of everything on the Digg comment box. No digg user will copy&paste. We only click links and read.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 01/31/2008, -0/+10And the spacecraft communicates in CB lingo.
- s14sh3r, on 01/31/2008, -1/+11"see thunderbolts.info and holoscience.org"
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Electrowned! - tRANIS, on 01/31/2008, -3/+13I enjoy the space program, but I will say that we could be spending money in better spots.
Go to the moon and get the Deuterium so we can really start fusion research.
Go to Mars. etc.
Get the new space vehicle up and running so we can retire the shuttle. Don't make calculation errors so probes crash.
And maybe just maybe work with other countries to make this happen since we have proven we can't do it alone, unless its a whos got the bigger contest in which we will dump money to make it happen. ie moon landing - Pittance, on 01/31/2008, -0/+9Nah you are right. I was hoping for something a bit more tasty. I guess to astronomers and astrophysists that this is pretty exciting. The fact that Mercury has a magnetosphere capable of deflecting Solar wind is pretty cool. But overall, boring story.
- TheHim, on 01/31/2008, -1/+10To this day i support investing resources into space programs. I find that before we expand into space, which anyway is a pipe dream as of now and might remain to our end, we need to solve our problems down here. However, experimentation in space and exploration of space seem like a worthy effort to me. The first to allow for scientific advances, the latter to keep our awe and fascination for the universe we're part of, a crucial experience to remain (or get) sane.
NASA has my respect. - skeletorcares, on 01/31/2008, -0/+8i like obama too, but this isn't the place. Don't discredit him cause you need attention.
- 666dorado, on 01/31/2008, -3/+11'Japs'? what are you, WWII racist old fart?
- thtroyer, on 01/31/2008, -1/+9Um... wrong planet.
- orbit1979, on 01/31/2008, -1/+9Most people apparently have far more relevant things to worry about, like sitting on their ass super-bowl Sunday to watch juiced-up, corrupt, over-payed people run around with inflated cowhide and stuff their faces with junk food.
- atomicwedgie, on 01/31/2008, -1/+8Come on peeps... look around the page and you will see the link to the images!
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/multi03.html - kooft, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7True, not all English speaking nations regard it as a racial slur, but most Japanese do and that's what you should be forming your decision around.
- KidDeath, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7This movie shows the end of MESSENGER's first encounter with Mercury. MESSENGER will fly by Mercury two additional times during the mission, in October 2008 and September 2009. In March 2011, MESSENGER will enter into an orbit around Mercury and begin a year-long scientific investigation of the planet.
taken from the site... - BaldGuy, on 01/31/2008, -2/+9I've seen spiders bigger than that in my bathroom.
- atomicwedgie, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/multi03.html
- atomicwedgie, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7My apologies... next time I will make more of an effort to ramble on as incoherently as I can possibly muster while mixing in some inane rants which have absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand nor pertain to anything remotely resembling a subject ever posted on Digg.
- SleepingOrange, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6You know they built messenger probably 7-15 years ago... back when your mom's 1mp kodak camera was the bomb.
- falstaff, on 01/31/2008, -2/+8Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and spiders are definitely from Mercury.
- directive0, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6And would it kill you to call some one a fanboy or throw some insults in there? Jeeze.
- slvrbullet87, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5Not really that easy to do, BBC and the Science channel had an 8 episode serries on this, a mars mission would take about 2.5 years, hard to hold enough food for that long, that and if you have to hang out with the same 5 people every minute for 2.5 years you would go *****
- inactive, on 01/31/2008, -1/+6The thing is, we could fix the problems here on earth and explore space to the fullest if we didn't have a military budget that was greater than the rest of the world combined...
When was the last time someone invaded our shores? - dlowder, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5They DO have color photos! They are generated by combining images taken through red, green, and blue filters. Here's the "multimedia page":
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/multi03.html
Scroll down and you'll see a high res color photo of Mercury generated as I described:
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/images/prock ... - JQP123, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5The formation and interaction of planets in our solar system represent the laws of physics acted out on a *grand* scale. Almost every encounter like this produces unexpected surprises that scientists then strive to explain. In the process, our knowledge of physics, geology and other areas is enhanced. Thus gained, such knowledge can then be applied back on earth in numerous areas.
- deputysalty, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4He played it left hand
- w00tfest99, on 01/31/2008, -1/+5I believe we do work with other countries. The ISS is a huge project that all kinds of countries are taking part in. It involves Canada, the US, Japan, Russia, and the ESA.
- BarriedaleNick, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4Much much more..
- orbit1979, on 01/31/2008, -2/+6That's kewl. Just go back to stuffing your face with "freedom" fries and watching Fox "News".
- digga1301, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4Umm, everything that Hubble has ever discovered or photoed?
- ivorylion, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4Getting your photos home and up on the internet doesn't involve a data transfer over 43 million miles & cost $50K per image. That might have something to do with the quantity.
- Kythas, on 01/31/2008, -1/+5Actually, I was hearing on the radio this morning that NASA is beginning astronaut selection for a manned Mars mission.
I say human footprints should have been on Mars already. It's past time for that to happen. - LonesomeFighter, on 01/31/2008, -1/+5In order to invest they need to be properly paid first
- PleaseJustDie, on 01/31/2008, -2/+6completely irrelevant, welcome to my blocked list.
- directive0, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4We haven't built them yet.
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