» MESSENGER enters orbit around Mercury
Terrific news out of NASA on Thursday night - MESSENGER successfully entered orbit around Mercury after six and a half years in transit. Great stuff - can’t wait to see what images and science come out of the mission over the next few years!
For a while I was tracking MESSENGER’s status and the early images that have come back from the flybys its done so far have been stunning. For example:
But, time got away from me and the last time I looked at the mission was 2009. The news of successful orbit insertion made for a very welcome surprise at the end of last week! Keep the images coming!
