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

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[meteorite-list] MESSENGER Sends Back First Image of Mercury from OrbitRon Baalke baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov 
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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 
<http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=432> 
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. 
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
/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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