photo results | Planet Mercury, 2nd flyby of Mercury by NASA Messe | The NASA spacecraft Messenger has made its second flyby of the smallest planet in the Solar System and the one closest to the Sun, Mercury.
Passing very close to the surface of planet.
The bright crater Kuiper is near the center and slightly below.
This was identified in the 1970's by the Mariner 10 spacecraft.
Read more and see more images at the Messenger website.
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/view.php?gallery_id=2 | |
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 | Mercury Jan 14 2008 | Mercury Jan 14 2008
A recent photo of the planet Mercury, closest planet to the Sun, by the NASA spacecraft Messenger.
The Messenger spacecraft is approaching the planet just prior to its 1st flyby of the planet.
It will pass only 200 miles above the surface, this will slow the spacecraft a little, this is required for the spacecraft to enter Mercurian orbit on March 18, 2011.
Image courtesy,
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. | |
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 | Mercury Jan 14 2008 high resolution | Mercury Jan 14 2008 A recent photo of the planet Mercury, closest planet to the Sun, by the NASA spacecraft Messenger. The Messenger spacecraft is approaching the planet just prior to its 1st flyby of the planet. It will pass only 200 miles above the surface, this will slow the spacecraft a little, this is required for the spacecraft to enter Mercurian orbit on March 18, 2011. Image courtesy, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. | |
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 | Mercury Jan 14 2008 high resolution | Mercury Jan 14 2008 A recent photo of the planet Mercury, closest planet to the Sun, by the NASA spacecraft Messenger. The Messenger spacecraft is approaching the planet just prior to its 1st flyby of the planet. It will pass only 200 miles above the surface, this will slow the spacecraft a little, this is required for the spacecraft to enter Mercurian orbit on March 18, 2011. Image courtesy, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. | |
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 | Todays image of Mercury | Messenger's first image after closest approach.
Jan 19 2008
Credit for Messenger images
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. | |
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