A NASA Discovery mission to conduct the first orbital study of the innermost planet
NASA logo carnegie institution logo JHU APL logo

Why Mercury?
The Mission
Gallery
Education
News Center
Science Operations
Who We Are
FAQs
Related Links
Contacts
Home

Download iPhone/iPad app Explore orbital data with quickmap Question and Answer Mercury Orbit Insertion Where is MESSENGER? Where is Mercury now? Subscribe to MESSENGER eNews



A MESSENGER Image Compilation from 2010
Click on image to enlarge.
A MESSENGER Image Compilation from 2010
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Topics: Earth, HD Resolution Images, Image Compilations, Mercury Flyby 1, Mercury Flyby 2, Mercury Flyby 3, NAC, WAC



As 2010 comes to a close, the MESSENGER spacecraft is less than three months from becoming the first ever to enter orbit about Mercury. The coming year 2011 promises to be a historic one for the MESSENGER mission and for the exploration of the Solar System more generally. As we await turning the page on the calendar, let's look back at 12 image highlights from this year:

• January: Honoring Haitian Painter Benoit and American Photographer Lange
• February: Spectacular Color... with Better Yet to Come
• March: Rachmaninoff in Concert with Recently Named Craters on Mercury
• April: How Mercury's Copland Received Its Name
• May: Painting a Wave of Rays
• June: The Complex Geology of Geddes Crater
• July: Debussy and Its Hundreds of Miles of Rays
• August: Earth and Moon from 114 Million Miles
• September: Young Volcanism on Mercury
• October: Looking Toward Mercury's Horizon
• November: Mercury's Vast Expanses of Smooth Plains
• December: The Impressive Rays of Hokusai

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington


For information regarding the use of MESSENGER images, see the image use policy.


« Prev  Next » 
   Top  | Contacts
© 1999-2012 by JHU/APL