Posts Tagged 'Mercury'
Mercury Fly-Over [video]
Published December 12, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: astronomy, Mercury, Messenger, NASA, space exploration, video
What Happened To Pluto? [video]
Published May 29, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: asteroid, astronomy, Ceres, dwarf planet, earth, heavenly body, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, planet, Pluto, Saturn, science, solar system, space exploration, Uranus, Venus, video
Animated Solar System Model
Published March 23, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: astronomy, earth, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, moon, Neptune, planets, Saturn, science, shock wave animation, solar system model, space exploration, Uranus, Venus
A very nice looking solar system model is available HERE. Not much to do, but take a look at it.
NASA Probe Orbits Mercury First Time
Published March 18, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Mercury, Messenger spacecraft, NASA, orbit, science, space exploration
For the first time in human history, an Earth-made vehicle has successfully entered the orbit of Mercury, the closest planet to our sun. NASA’s Messenger spacecraft entered Mercury’s orbit at about 9:15pm EST on Thursday after a 30-minute rocket blast pushed the unmanned probe into the planet’s gravitational pull, the Los Angeles Times reports. Announcement of Messenger’s orbit entry was met with jubilation from the mission control room at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland.
