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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ghostavo on August 03, 2004, 05:09:16 pm

Title: NASA - Messenger
Post by: Ghostavo on August 03, 2004, 05:09:16 pm

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/main/index.html

Discuss... ;)

and may HLP be here when it reaches its destination

Title: NASA - Messenger
Post by: aldo_14 on August 03, 2004, 05:12:12 pm

Hope they packed the Ambre Solaire (http://www.edirectory.co.uk/pf/Pages/Default.asp?mt=Exact&Keywords=Ambre+Solaire)

Title: NASA - Messenger
Post by: Tiara on August 03, 2004, 05:12:58 pm

What's to discuss... they launched... yay...

Title: NASA - Messenger
Post by: Ghostavo on August 03, 2004, 05:18:33 pm

Go check the mission's objectives... hehe...

Title: NASA - Messenger
Post by: diamondgeezer on August 03, 2004, 05:25:21 pm

I pricked up my ears when they mentioned investigating the planet's magnetic field. I had no idea Mercury had one, and the data gathered could be useful in determining what happened to Mars...

Title: NASA - Messenger
Post by: Tiara on August 03, 2004, 05:34:17 pm

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MESSENGER will enter Mercury orbit in March 2011 and carry out comprehensive measurements for one Earth year. The data-collection phase of the mission will conclude in March 2012.

We could really go for a couple of Impulse Engines right about now :p

Title: Re: NASA - Messenger
Post by: Setekh on August 03, 2004, 08:37:14 pm

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Originally posted by Ghostavo
and may HLP be here when it reaches its destination

2011? I can't wait. ;)

Title: NASA - Messenger
Post by: Sigma957 on August 03, 2004, 08:57:16 pm

Yeh :lol:
Well It going to spin around Venus to slow down, I'll probably forgotten about it by then.