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Looking over Mercury’s Horizon
If you didn’t read the title, and I tell you the image below is our Moon, I think all of you will believe me… To be honest, I may also mistaken it as our Moon if I didn’t read the caption. Mercury and...
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Features on Mercury Receive New Names
On January 14, 2008, MESSENGER makes its first flyby of Mercury, skimming 200 kilometres above its surface. During that flyby, MESSENGER had imaged the hemisphere that has never been seen before,...
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Prepared for Mercury 2nd Flyby by MESSENGER
10 months ago, MESSENGER, a spacecraft designed to study Mercury, made its first flyby of the innermost planet. On this coming Monday, October 6, MESSENGER is going to make its second flyby, passing a...
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Images from Mercury 2nd Flyby
The spectacular image shown here was taken at an altitude of 27,000 km and shows a Wide Angle Camera image of Mercury taken about 90 minutes after the spacecraft’s closest approach to the planet. The...
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Planets & Moon Get-Together + Perseids Meteor Shower
All these happen in one night: 13th August 2010 – Friday. And you do not want to miss them. This Friday, find a place with an unobstructed western horizon and have your dinner there while enjoying the...
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