The story has another twist that also underscores the importance of
checking orbital data against ground truth.
Further support for a scum layer inside Mercury could come as MESSENGER gathers more gravity data and team members use the accumulating gravity data as an independent check on the
radar orbital data.
Combined to give the most likely picture of Mercury's interior, the gravity and
orbital data point to plenty of iron for the planet.
Two models, both devised in the 2000s, best fit
the orbital data.
Compared with the data from the initial flybys,
the orbital data provided a much more detailed view of the deposits and the source vents that spat them out.
The orbital data, in conjunction with the knowledge that «Oumuamua was hurtling through the solar system at a top speed of around 196,000 mph (315,431 km / h) led scientists to conclude that the object was not gravitationally bound to our Sun, and was instead a transient visitor from interstellar space.
From the ground station, data are transferred to ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, which adds spacecraft attitude and
orbital data, and then retransmits the data to the various instrument's principal investigators (PI) for scientific processing and analysis.
Later Tamino showed me where to find Laskar's
orbital data.