MESSNGER Orbit Insertion (201103170002HQ)
Summary
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden looks into the Mission Operations room, Thursday, March 17, 2011, at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. MESSENGER, on a six-year mission to become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury is carrying seven science instruments and is fortified against the blistering environs near the sun. The orbit insertion will place the spacecraft into a 12-hour orbit about Mercury with a 200 kilometer (124 mile) minimum altitude. MESSENGER will be 46.14 million kilometers (28.67 million miles) from the sun and 155.06 million kilometers (96.35 million miles) from Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
NASA Identifier: 5535827293_3361f1725c_o
Date
23/03/2011
Source
Defense Visual Information Distribution Service
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