Doesn't seem to have been a thread yet! Messenger isn't through with its journey to a stable orbit around Mercury yet -- just over the halfway point, actually -- but it's done its first flyby and damn those are some nice photos:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/208454main1_messenger_mercury_350.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/208701main1_merc_horizon_350.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/208674main1_geo_hist_350.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 January 2008 03:59 (eighteen years ago)
i wd go
― remy bean, Friday, 18 January 2008 04:11 (eighteen years ago)
Breathin' be hard.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 January 2008 04:13 (eighteen years ago)
Not to mention the place has no atmosphere.
― Abbott, Friday, 18 January 2008 04:15 (eighteen years ago)
"HELLISH AND INHOSPITABLE!"
– Zagat Survey
― Abbott, Friday, 18 January 2008 04:16 (eighteen years ago)
it's also too hot. and cold.
― strgn, Friday, 18 January 2008 04:17 (eighteen years ago)
is mercury the most boring planet?
― strgn, Friday, 18 January 2008 04:18 (eighteen years ago)
i feel like that honor goes to uranus
― remy bean, Friday, 18 January 2008 04:19 (eighteen years ago)
space ZING
hahaaaa
― strgn, Friday, 18 January 2008 05:44 (eighteen years ago)
uranus
― strgn, Friday, 18 January 2008 05:45 (eighteen years ago)
you know, if that ever stops being funny to me i know it'll be time to go
― strgn, Friday, 18 January 2008 05:47 (eighteen years ago)
Then you shall live...forever
― Sparkle Motion, Friday, 18 January 2008 06:14 (eighteen years ago)
Beautiful pictures, thanks for the heads up Ned. Hopefully the mission will include some fly-by videos like those Cassini took passing Dione a couple of years back too.
― Bill A, Friday, 18 January 2008 11:22 (eighteen years ago)
Freakish:
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/01/30/PH2008013003461.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 January 2008 03:39 (eighteen years ago)
"and that one rock that looked like a crater"
― S-, Thursday, 31 January 2008 03:53 (eighteen years ago)
All right, today is the day -- 10 1/2 hours to go until orbit insertion, so cross your fingers!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/main/index.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:20 (fourteen years ago)
And it's done! Can't wait for what will be next!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 March 2011 03:07 (fourteen years ago)