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MESSENGER

Mission Elapsed Time
August 3, 2004
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Mercury Orbit Insertion
March 18, 2011
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Countdown to Insertion Burn
Current Total Distance Traveled

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Mission News

November 17, 2009
Time Magazine Names MESSENGER One of the Best Inventions of 2009
The MESSENGER spacecraft has been named one of Time magazine’s best 50 inventions of 2009. The NASA probe, built by the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., came in at number 11. [more]

Featured Image

November 17, 2009
Mercury in True and Enhanced Color
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