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See Mercury while you orbit with your Messenger
William Atkins
Thursday, 31 March 2011 22:50
The U.S. space agency NASA released on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, the first orbital images of Mercury by its Messenger probe, after it entered orbit about the planet on March 17.
After completing a 6.6-year journey to Mercury, the Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, spacecraft is starting its one-year mission of Mercurial study.
For more on its orbital insertion around Mercury, check out 'MESSENGER does it: Orbits Mercury.'
One of the images was taken at 5:20 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), on March 29, 2011, by Messenger's Mercury Dual Imaging System. The MDIS contains two color cameras, a narrow-angle one and a wide-angle imager.
Both take pictures of Mercury with visible light and near-infrared light. This system will eventually take images of the entire planet -- twice over its one-year mission around the planet.
The image is from above the planet's south polar region. This region of Mercury has never before been seen by spacecraft.
On April 4, 2011, the Messenger spacecraft will begin full-time mapping of the planet Mercury.
Page two shows were to go to see the Mercury images, along with a YouTube video.
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