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Space & Planetary Science

MESSENGER Closes In On Mercury

By Keith Cowing

NASA Watch

January 10, 2008

MESSENGER Set for Historic Mercury Flyby

“On January 9, 2008, the MESSENGER spacecraft snapped one of its first images of Mercury at a distance of about 2.7 million kilometers (1.7 million miles) from the planet. The image was acquired with the Narrow Angle Camera, one half of MESSENGER’s Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument.”

MESSENGER Team Receives First Optical Navigation Images of Mercury, Mercury Today

“MESSENGER mission operators at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., have received the first eight optical navigation images from the spacecraft.”

NASA Teleconference to Preview Messenger’s Flyby of Mercury, Mercury Today

“NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Jan. 10, to preview the historic Jan. 14 spacecraft flight past Mercury that will explore some of the last major never-seen-before terrain in the inner solar system.”

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Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.