Now a close-up image: the Vivaldi crater, near the terminator. I suppose they're analyzing tons of data and don't have much spare time, but they're releasing the images too little by little...
EDIT: Oh, ok, now I read the Planetary Society blog you linked above and it seems they don't have much antenna time to download their data, because of a slight problem Ulysses had yesterday and required the 70m antennas to be directed to it...
Six new images have been released (they're picking up the pace ) and all of them are hugely interesting, with some close-ups of previously unseen areas. The geology is very varied, with lots of cliffs, new and old craters, filled and empty, partially destroyed or intact. And there's an oblique horizon view which is totally breathtaking! I'll attach that one for today.
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Another two images have been released today and the team informs all the flyby data has successfully been returned to Earth. Apparantly, "there are already indications that new discoveries are at hand".
For today, this approach image which shows a shadowed Mercury, and the one below the still-iluminated crater and mountain summits in Vivaldi (the last one is from the 16th, but I decided today it was too nice to leave it unposted ). However, I strongly recommend you to check them all in the site, because every single one of them is worth a good look, even though some are less spectacular.
The latest update features the first results from the laser range altimeter and the first image taken after closest approach:
Mercury's first color image has been released!! And along with it a cute spectroscopy analysis, that while being very preliminary, shows what could already be seen in the other image and in Mariner's: Mercury is predominantly red (those areas which have been exposed to space weather longer) with blue patches (recently cratered places)
Previously, they have also posted some B&W images, one of them from the South Pole! Below is the star of the party: Mercury in color.
edkyle99 - 23/1/2008 2:49 PMI'm pretty sure that the color Mariner 10 images most commonly seen are in false-color also. I don't know if I've ever seen a "true color" image.