NASA Television and the agency's website will carry live coverage from 8 to 10 p.m. EDT Thursday as the first spacecraft enters Mercury's orbit. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which operates the MESSENGER spacecraft, is conducting the webcast from its mission control building in Laurel, Md.
Artist Concept of MESSENGER Spacecraft in Mercury Orbit
Credit: NASA
NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging, or MESSENGER, is scheduled to enter the planet's orbit at approximately 9 p.m. after conducting more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system for the past 6.6 years.
After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on March 17. The durable, APL-built spacecraft – carrying seven science instruments and fortified against the blistering environs near the sun – will be the first to orbit the innermost planet. While orbiting Mercury, MESSENGER’s instruments will perform the first complete reconnaissance of the cratered planet’s geochemistry, geophysics, geologic history, atmosphere, magnetosphere and plasma environment.
For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/messenger
Artist Concept of MESSENGER Spacecraft in Mercury Orbit
Credit: NASA
NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging, or MESSENGER, is scheduled to enter the planet's orbit at approximately 9 p.m. after conducting more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system for the past 6.6 years.
After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on March 17. The durable, APL-built spacecraft – carrying seven science instruments and fortified against the blistering environs near the sun – will be the first to orbit the innermost planet. While orbiting Mercury, MESSENGER’s instruments will perform the first complete reconnaissance of the cratered planet’s geochemistry, geophysics, geologic history, atmosphere, magnetosphere and plasma environment.
For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/messenger
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