Study of Mercury by Ground-Based Astronomical Facilities

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1792k&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1792

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By space missions as background, a question may arise if there is any sense in continuing Earthbased studies of Mercury and creating images of its surface, when a more sophisticated satellite imagery from the Messenger spacecraft is achievable? The most important reason is that Mercury has a strong phase effects (probably stronger than one of the Moon). Because of that, the view of the surface changes completely with the phase of the planet. For example, on space images at the phase of 40--50°, the relief seems to completely "disappear", and the relief is only visible on the terminator. The main task of Mercury observations in 2006 was to obtain a complete view of the Skinakas Basin [1], which was done on the basis of observations from November 21, 2006 [2]. This day was the most comfortable both in regard to the basin position relative to the terrestrial observer and because of the low position of the Sun above the horizon of the basin.

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