Mercury: MESSENGER's Historic Flyby of Mercury

  10 votes
Recommend

Launched on a Boeing Delta II rocket, MESSENGER lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 02:15:56 EDT on August 3, 2004 with the goals to determine the chemical composition of Mercury's surface, its geologic history, the nature of the planet's magnetic field, the size and state of the core, the volatile inventory at the poles, and the nature of Mercury's exosphere and magnetosphere.

However, MESSENGER's most important mission is yet to come: its Mercury orbit insertion will be on March 18, 2011, beginning a year-long orbital mission which will see a lot more data sent to Earth.




dotclear
Other Videos

New Ice Age Find in Old Fossil Site

Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near the famous La Brea...
» view video

Mammoth skeleton found in LA

The nearly complete skeleton of a massive mammoth who died during the last ice age has been dug...
» view video

From the Scene: Eco-polar station

Reuters contributor Wendell Roelf reports from East Antarctica where Belgium has opened a...
» view video

World's largest wetland at risk

Visitors to Brazil's Pantanal can still spot a 220-pound jaguar or a giant capybara, but the...
» view video

U.S. and Russia satellites collide

A privately owned U.S. communications satellite -- owned by Iridium-- collided with a defunct...
» view video
dotclear
video Video categories
» Home » Specials » World 
» Business » Technology » U.S. 
» Science » Health » Movie Reviews 
» Movies » Music » People 
» Sports » Gadgets » Video Games 
SHARE THE VIDEO:
Del.icio.us Digg Stumble Upon
Facebook Newsvine Mixx

» E-mail To A Friend
dotclear
dotclear
dotclear
Photos Gallery
dotclear