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Description: The official site for the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging mission. Includes details of mission and spacecraft design, team member profiles, news, and data.
A NASA Discovery mission to conduct the first orbital study of the innermost planet MESSENGER Surpasses 200,000 Orbital Images of Mercury MESSENGER has now returned more than 200,000 images acquired from orbit about Mercury. The 1996 proposal for the mission promised a return of at least 1,000 images says Robert Gold, MESSENGER's Science Payload Manager. "We expected then that we would have some data compression that would probably raise the image total to somewhere near 2,000 images," says Gold, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), but scientists did not imagine then the degree to which MESSENGER would surpass that goal. [
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| Page title: | MESSENGER Web Site |
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| IP-address: | 128.244.181.173 |
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| NS | Name Servers: NS03.JHUAPL.EDU 128.244.177.20 NS17.JHUAPL.EDU 128.244.177.36 |
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| Date | activated: 14-Oct-1987 last updated: 11-Dec-2013 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |