Tag: MESSENGER

  • Messenger mission ends with plunge into Mercury

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    Artist’s concept of the Messenger spacecraft flying over Mercury’s surface displayed in enhanced color. The crater ringed by bright orange is Calvino crater. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington NASA’s Messenger spacecraft closed out a successful four-year tour in Mercury’s orbit Thursday with a cataclysmic crash into the scorching planet after…

  • NASA spacecraft to get bonus time studying Mercury

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    A depiction of the MESSENGER spacecraft is shown passing near the crater Hokusai and its extensive system of rays. Both the monochrome and enhanced color views of Mercury were obtained during MESSENGER’s second Mercury flyby. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Running low on fuel after completing the first global survey…