30 Apr
2015
30 Apr
'15
2:42 a.m.
Here’s the latest information from Phil Davis and Courtney O’Connor of the Solar System Team at JPL for you to share with your audiences… The MESSENGER spacecraft will crash into Mercury around 13:26 MDT this afternoon. It will be on the far side of the planet, so we won’t get the closest images back. Bill Dunford created this nice tribute video (used in Jim Green’s press conference two weeks ago). http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/video-view.cfm?Vid_ID=4584 There's also a 15-second version of the tribute video available for social media. Download here: https://vimeo.com/125304262 Farewell MESSENGER, patrick