MESSENGER ARRIVES, Mercury Orbit Insertion |
MESSENGER ARRIVES, Mercury Orbit Insertion |
 Mar 17 2011, 05:29 AM
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Less than 20 hours now until the MESSENGER spacecraft fires its engine to enter orbit at Mercury.
Live Webcast March 17th – broadcast starts at 0030 UTC. Follow the progress: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/mer_orbit.html. There will be commentary on the mission, real-time coverage of the maneuver, animation of what the spacecraft is doing, a view of the carrier’s Doppler as they receive it, and live video from MESSENGER Mission Operations. Remember that the Canberra DSN is providing two-way communication with MESSENGER  We'll be using both DSS43 (70-metre) and DSS34 (34-metre) antennas. Good luck to the team at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). |
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Apr 1 2011, 02:02 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
@ Phil: There's a lot going on in that image. Is that an ancient lava 'riverbed'? Also, what's with the linear streaking in that vicinity.
Oh, this is gonna be a fun mission!!!!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Apr 1 2011, 02:10 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1583 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
QUOTE (nprev @ Mar 31 2011, 10:02 PM)  Also, what's with the linear streaking in that vicinity. There would appear to be a lot of secondary impacts. I should look it up in Google Mercury and see if that makes sense... |
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Astro0 MESSENGER ARRIVES Mar 17 2011, 05:29 AM
Explorer1 Check the Wikipedia front page (April 1st).
Nice t... Apr 1 2011, 07:28 AM volcanopele have I said how much I love April Fool's Day. Apr 1 2011, 09:16 AM Phil Stooke "Is that an ancient lava 'riverbed'?... Apr 1 2011, 01:56 PM Phil Stooke More pictures up...
Phil Apr 1 2011, 04:18 PM zeBeamer new and unexpected images from MESSENGER arrived t... Apr 1 2011, 08:57 PM
nprev QUOTE (zeBeamer @ Apr 1 2011, 12:57 PM) n... Apr 2 2011, 01:37 AM
Ron Hobbs QUOTE (zeBeamer @ Apr 1 2011, 01:57 PM) n... Apr 2 2011, 04:54 PM tanjent Dang, I still can't access jhuapl and a number... Apr 1 2011, 09:33 PM stevesliva You can always try a proxy. Sometimes intermediat... Apr 1 2011, 10:00 PM maschnitz This may be an odd question. Maybe I've misund... Apr 4 2011, 05:52 AM Phil Stooke Ranging and Doppler might make some improvements t... Apr 4 2011, 02:26 PM Astro0 In the latest release they show a three image set ... Apr 4 2011, 11:37 PM nprev Oddly fascinating that, Astro0, yes? Apr 5 2011, 12:23 AM Astro0 I wish we had more images to play work with. It... Apr 5 2011, 01:16 AM |
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