It was good that you are posting here again, Patrick. I'm still distributing reprints of your great article from The NDT Technician; Metric Measurement in the 21st Century.
For anyone; What are those striations along longitudinal lines (?) on Mercury? Are they merely distortions from blended photos, or optical illusions? Eugene (Gene) Mechtly. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:45:32 +0000 >From: Patrick Moore <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:50228] FYI NASA km >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > >NASA news item gives distances in miles with conversions to km in parens: ><http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110329/sc_space/nasaspacecraftsnaps1stphotoofmercuryfromorbit>. >
