MESSENGER Tribute Video

A Tribute to MESSENGER This video is a tribute to the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission to Mercury. Launched on Aug 3rd, 2004, MESSENGER circled the Sun 15.3 times over the course of six and a half years before entering orbit around Mercury on March 18, 2011. Discoveries from orbit have led planetary geologists to rethink and reform some hypotheses on the formation and evolution of the innermost planet. The engineering, mission operations, and s