 Click on image to enlarge. | MESSENGER's End of Mission Briefing: Unlocking the Mysteries of MercuryRelease Date: July 1, 2015 Topics: End of Mission |
Meet one of the Solar System's most intriguing planets - up close and personal - with a mission debriefing from Principal Investigator, Dr. Sean Solomon. This event will be held on July 2 at 1 p.m. EDT at the Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters (300 E St. NW, Washington, DC) and can also be streamed online.
For nearly a decade the MESSENGER spacecraft survived severe thermal and radiation hazards to explore Mercury, the Sun's closest planetary neighbor, with an orbital mission that ended in a dramatic planned April 30, 2015 impact. What did we learn in this seventh mission in NASA's Discovery program? What we now know about one of Earth's nearest neighbors may teach us something about ourselves.
For nearly a decade the MESSENGER spacecraft survived severe thermal and radiation hazards to explore Mercury, the Sun's closest planetary neighbor, with an orbital mission that ended in a dramatic planned April 30, 2015 impact. What did we learn in this seventh mission in NASA's Discovery program? What we now know about one of Earth's nearest neighbors may teach us something about ourselves.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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