In Dan Pendick's blog, "Mercury's master mapper," he told you we were converting two high-resolution animations from Robert Gaskell, a participating scientist in the MESSENGER mission to Mercury, of the asteroids Eros and Itokawa. Well, we're done converting them to Flash, and you can now view them.
We've housed the converted animations on Astronomy.com, so click on the asteroid names below to watch them:
Asteroid Eros
Asteroid Itokawa
Special thanks to Robert Gaskell for sharing these videos with us.
Robert recently sent Dan a sample of his maps of Mercury, and we'll have that blog post up soon.