Recent MESSENGER Photos
Successful 22nd MESSENGER STM
MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon chaired the three-day meeting, which brought 130 scientists,… [more]
MESSENGER Mercury Orbit Insertion
At 9:10 p.m. EDT ( March 17, 2011), engineers in the MESSENGER Mission Operations Center at the Johns… [more]
A Solar System Family Portrait, from the Inside Out
*Of Interest: In 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft captured the first portrait of our Solar System as seen… [more]
Revisiting Some of MESSENGER’s Early Discoveries and Anticipating More in 2011
*Of Interest: When MESSENGER first flew by Mercury on January 14, 2008, MDIS acquired images of a large… [more]
MESSENGER Explores Mercury – In Color!
*Of Interest: During MESSENGER's second flyby of Mercury, MDIS acquired a strip of high-resolution images… [more]
Recent MESSENGER Events
Successful 22nd MESSENGER STM
MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon chaired the three-day meeting, which brought 130 scientists, engineers, educators, and managers to the Broad Branch Road campus. As it was the first team meeting since the MESSENGER spacecraft was successfully inserted into orbit about Mercury in … [Read More...]
MESSENGER Mercury Orbit Insertion
At 9:10 p.m. EDT ( March 17, 2011), engineers in the MESSENGER Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., received the anticipated radiometric signals confirming nominal burn shutdown and successful insertion of the MESSENGER probe into … [Read More...]
A Solar System Family Portrait, from the Inside Out
*Of Interest: In 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft captured the first portrait of our Solar System as seen from the outside looking in. As a complement to this view, which contained the iconic “pale blue dot” image of Earth, the MESSENGER spacecraft collected this series of images to complete a … [Read More...]
Revisiting Some of MESSENGER’s Early Discoveries and Anticipating More in 2011
*Of Interest: When MESSENGER first flew by Mercury on January 14, 2008, MDIS acquired images of a large portion of Mercury's surface that had never previously been seen by spacecraft. This mosaic of NAC images shows some of the geologic features discovered during that first flyby that have been … [Read More...]
MESSENGER Explores Mercury – In Color!
*Of Interest: During MESSENGER's second flyby of Mercury, MDIS acquired a strip of high-resolution images obtained with each of the WAC's 11 different color filters. … [Read More...]