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NASA Releasing First Ever Spacecraft Orbital Views of Mercury
Posted on Jun 14, 2011 02:54:59 PM | John Entwistle | 1 Comments    |
Artist Concept: MESSENGER in orbit over MercuryNASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 16, to reveal new images and science findings from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. The event will be held in the NASA Headquarters. NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the event.

NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER spacecraft conducted more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system for six years prior to achieving the historic orbit insertion on March 17.

This news conference connects the NASA MESSENGER mission to the MESSENGER content modules on the NASA Explorer Schools Virtual Campus. 

Be sure to watch this exciting news conference and see the new information the MESSENGER satellite is bringing us.

To read more about this amazing mission, visit: http://neon.intronetworks.com/#Forum/forum/2/1335/158/888

Link to the NES Virtual Campus home page.

Tags : High School Students, Middle School Students, NASA Mission Update, NES Lesson-MESSENGER: My Angle on Cooling, NES Lesson-MESSENGER: Staying Cool  

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1 Comments so far ( Post your own )
1 On Jun 15, 2011 04:06:57 AM  xiao mi feng  added a comment on your blog post. 

That's interesting and I hope MESSENGER do better and give us more surprise!

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