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Transcript of Survey of Astronomy Astro1010-lee.com [email protected] Chapter 8 The Planet Mercury.
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stro1010-lee.comElongation of Mercury
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 8Mercury’s Curious Rotation
• Synchronous rotation–Our moon–All the large moons
• 3 to 2–3 rotations to 2
revolutions
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Chapter 8Comparison of Earth’s interior to
that of Mercury
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Chapter 8Composite of the Mariner views of Mercury
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Chapter 8The spacecraft MESSENGER in orbit around
Mercury. Notice the shade designed to protect the MESSENGER from the brilliant sunshine.
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Chapter 8From its polar orbit MESSENGER is
able to see the entire surface
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Chapter 8Mercury
Messenger may have found extinct volcanos
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Chapter 8Mercury
Some unusual features to be studied
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Chapter 8Some features become more evident at
different lighting
