Mercury
Flyby 1 Highlights
View Mercury and the spacecraft path from:
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the direction of the Sun |
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above Mercury's North pole |
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the direction of the Earth |
View animations (January 2008 update) of Mercury and the spacecraft path from:
above Mercury’s north pole
the direction of
the spacecraft
Highlights (May 2008 update) for Mercury Flyby 1
Minimum altitude above
Mercury:
201.4 kilometers (125.1 miles) on January 14, 2008 7:05 pm UTC
Maximum spacecraft speed relative to center of Mercury:
7.097 kilometers per second (4.410 miles per second or 15,876 miles per hour)
Distance from Earth and Sun (1 AU = average Earth-Sun distance):
Earth-spacecraft: 1.156 AU (172.96 million kilometers, 107.47 million miles)
Sun-spacecraft: 0.3516 AU (52.61 million kilometers, 32.69 million miles)