MESSENGER News Thread, news, updates and discussion |
MESSENGER News Thread, news, updates and discussion |
Apr 20 2005, 11:22 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 563 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
Launched on August 3rd 2004, NASA's MESSENGER will become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.
News and updates are availbale via Johns Hopkins University MESSENGER website and the Kennedy Space Center's MESSENGER website. There will be an earth flyby in August followed by a couple of swings by Venus and three velocity scrubbing passages past mecury before the craft enters orbit in March 2011. April 18, 2005 status report from JHU. Extensive JHU FAQs page here. |
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Jun 28 2005, 01:50 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
ERmmm..
NEAR - http://near.jhuapl.edu/Images/.Anim.html specifically - http://near.jhuapl.edu/Voyage/img/earth_swby_lg.mpg Galileo http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/earthmoon-all.cfm Took 60 seconds to find them Doug |
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Jun 28 2005, 03:24 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2256 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
And if you want thousands of PDS-formatted Galileo images of the Earth there's always this:
http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Nav/GLL_search.pl |
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