Spacecraft MESSENGER to measure Mercury's topography

NASA spacecraft to soar over Mercury
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...ow_article= 1

David Christainsen - meteorologist

On Oct 2, 8:12 am, David wrote:
NASA spacecraft to soar over Mercuryhttp://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081002123424.vvglc39k&show_ar...

David Christainsen - meteorologist

Too bad they don't have my better quality cell phone camera to work
with.

~ BG

On Oct 2, 8:12 am, David wrote:
NASA spacecraft to soar overMercuryhttp://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081002123424.vvglc39k&show_ar...

David Christainsen - meteorologist

Why is the Messenger image quality that’s offered for public review so
unusually deprived of dynamic range, and otherwise of only pastel
color/hue saturation?

Are they still having to insist that other planets such as Venus,
Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, even Mars and that of our darker than coal
Selene/moon can’t possibly be included within any FOV that’s pointed
in the right direction while having included the otherwise nearly dark
as coal and element/mineral rich surface of Mercury?

How about the vibrant and rather unavoidably bluish hue saturation of
Sirius, as a sufficient little speck of pesky photons that should by
rights rather easily fall within the wide spectrum bandpass and
DR(dynamic range) of what either Messenger camera with it’s superior
mirror optics should accommodate.

~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG