Bye, bye, Messenger, and thanks for the memories.
NASA’s Messenger spacecraft, which has orbited Mercury for about four years, is expected to crash into the planet closest to the sun Thursday, ending its long and successful mission
Scientists predict that when it impacts the planet, it will leave a 50-foot-wide crater on its surface.
The “impact will not be in view,” Daniel O’Shaughnessy, Messenger systems engineer said during a news conference earlier in April. “It will happen during a planetary occultation, so the spacecraft will pass behind the planet — out of view of the Earth — and will just not emerge again.” Read more...
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