NASA TV To Cover MESSENGER Spacecraft Entering Mercury’s Orbit
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NASA Television and the agency’s website will carry live coverage from 8 to 10 p.m. EDT Thursday as the first spacecraft enters Mercury’s orbit. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which operates the MESSENGER spacecraft, is conducting the webcast from its mission control building in Laurel, Md.
NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging, or MESSENGER, is scheduled to enter the planet’s orbit at approximately 9 p.m. after conducting more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system for the past 6.6 years.
For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/messenger
An artist's concept shows the MESSENGER spacecraft in orbit around Mercury. Photo Credit: NASA
Source:NASA Press Release
Ray Sanders is a Sci-Fi geek, astronomer and blogger. Currently researching variable stars at Arizona State University, he writes for Universe Today, The Planetary Society blog, and his own blog, Dear Astronomer
2012-12-04 08:05:50
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In the 1970′s we had the fake moon landings and today in 2012 we have the fake Mercury landing.