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The reference frames of Mercury after the MESSENGER mission

We report on recent refinements and the current status for the rotational state models and the reference frames of the planet Mercury. We summarize...

Alexander Stark, Jürgen Oberst, ... Hauke Hussmann in Journal of Geodesy

Article 16 June 2018

Fundamental Frameworks in Planetary Map**: A Review

In this chapter, we review basic concepts, measurements, and methods in map** topographic and reflectance (image) data of planetary surfaces. This...

Henrik Hargitai, Konrad Willner, Trent Hare in Planetary Cartography and GIS

Chapter 2019

Report of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2015

This report continues the practice where the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements revises recommendations regarding...

B. A. Archinal, C. H. Acton, ... I. P. Williams in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Article 23 February 2018

Map Projections in Planetary Cartography

Reference surfaces, coordinate systems and projections are the prerequisites for the geospatial analysis of planetary surfaces. In the followings we...

Henrik Hargitai, Jue Wang, ... Mátyás Gede in Choosing a Map Projection

Chapter 2017

Mercury’s resonant rotation from secular orbital elements

We used recently produced Solar System ephemerides, which incorporate 2 years of ranging observations to the MESSENGER spacecraft, to extract the...

Alexander Stark, Jürgen Oberst, Hauke Hussmann in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Article 21 July 2015

Gazetteer of Mercury

airglow /ˈɛ:ɡləʊ/(US /ˈɛ:ɹɡloʊ/)

T. J. Mahoney in Mercury

Chapter 2014

Mythologie

Arthur Henkel, Albrecht Schöne in Emblemata

Chapter 2013

Report of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2009

Every three years the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements revises tables giving the directions of the poles of...

B. A. Archinal, M. F. A’Hearn, ... I. P. Williams in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Article 04 December 2010

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Die Einträge stehen fast immer im Singular. Der Text zu den Stichwörtern ist so kurz wie möglich gehalten. Da deutlich ist, dass sich die Termini auf...

Matthias Schaefer in Wörterbuch der Ökologie

Chapter 2012

A Mercury orientation model including non-zero obliquity and librations

Planetary orientation models describe the orientation of the spin axis and prime meridian of planets in inertial space as a function of time. The...

Jean-Luc Margot in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Article Open access 27 October 2009

Our Current Knowledge of Mercury

Peter Grego in Venus and Mercury, and How to Observe Them

Chapter 2008

Abstracts

in European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery

Article 01 July 2010

Keys to the Species and Species Profiles (in alphabetic order)

Holger Thüs, Matthias Schultz in Fungi

Chapter 2009

Report of the IAU/IAG Working Group on cartographic coordinates and rotational elements: 2006

Every three years the IAU/IAG Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements revises tables giving the directions of the poles of...

P. Kenneth Seidelmann, B. A. Archinal, ... I. P. Williams in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Article Open access 03 July 2007

Cratered World

It was unfortunate, but inevitable, that Mariner 10 imaged the same areas of Mercury at each of its three active passes. It therefore covered less...

in Moore on Mercury

Chapter 2007

Abstraction and Unification

Ari Ben-Menahem in Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Reference work entry 2009

Mercury: The Iron Planet

Mercury is one of Earth’s cosmic neighbors, regularly approaching to within 80 million km (50 million mi)—closer than any planet other than Venus and...

Peter Bond in Distant Worlds