[meteorite-list] MESSENGER Sends Back First Image of Mercury from Orbit

From: Thunder Stone <stanleygregr_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:10:26 -0700
Message-ID: <SNT117-W284957AEF0752DECF6611DD2BC0_at_phx.gbl>

I see Angrites... I see Angrites...
It's amazing how similar it looks to the moon.
Awesome picture.
Greg S.

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> From: baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:40:43 -0700
> Subject: [meteorite-list] MESSENGER Sends Back First Image of Mercury from Orbit
>
>
> http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=165
>
> MESSENGER Mission News
> March 29, 2011
>
> MESSENGER Sends Back First Image of Mercury from Orbit
>
> MESSENGER has delivered its first image
>
> since entering orbit about Mercury on March 17. It was taken today at
> 5:20 am EDT by the Mercury Dual Imaging System as the spacecraft sailed
> high above Mercury's south pole, and provides a glimpse of portions of
> Mercury's surface not previously seen by spacecraft. The image was
> acquired as part of the orbital commissioning phase of the MESSENGER
> mission. Continuous global mapping of Mercury will begin on April 4.
>
> "The entire MESSENGER team is thrilled that spacecraft and instrument
> checkout has been proceeding according to plan," says MESSENGER
> Principal Investigator Sean Solomon, of the Carnegie Institution of
> Washington. "The first images from orbit and the first measurements from
> MESSENGER's other payload instruments are only the opening trickle of
> the flood of new information that we can expect over the coming year.
> The orbital exploration of the Solar System's innermost planet has begun."
>
> Several other images will be available Wednesday, March 30, in
> conjunction with a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT to discuss the
> initial orbital images taken from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.
> Media teleconference participants are:
> -- Sean Solomon, MESSENGER principal investigator, Carnegie Institution
> of Washington
> -- Eric Finnegan, MESSENGER mission systems engineer, Johns Hopkins
> University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel. Md.
>
> To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact Dwayne
> Brown at dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov or 202-358-1726 for dial-in
> instructions. During the teleconference, MESSENGER information and
> images will be available at http://www.nasa.gov/messenger and
> http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/presscon8.html.
>
> Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website at:
> http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio.
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> /MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and
> Ranging) is a NASA-sponsored scientific investigation of the planet
> Mercury and the first space mission designed to orbit the planet closest
> to the Sun. The MESSENGER spacecraft launched on August 3, 2004, and
> entered orbit about Mercury on March 17, 2011 (March 18, 2011 UTC), to
> begin a yearlong study of its target planet. Dr. Sean C. Solomon, of the
> Carnegie Institution of Washington, leads the mission as Principal
> Investigator. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
> built and operates the MESSENGER spacecraft and manages this
> Discovery-class mission for NASA.
>
>
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