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Mission News
October 15, 2008
MESSENGER Gains Speed
Shortly after 4 a.m. this morning, MESSENGER reached its greatest speed relative to the Sun. The spacecraft, nearly 70% closer to the Sun than Earth, was traveling nearly 140,880 miles per hour (62.979 kilometers per second) relative to the Sun. At this speed MESSENGER would traverse the distance from Earth to Earth’s Moon in only 1.7 hours! [more]
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 | October 21, 2008 The Highest-resolution Image from MESSENGER’s Second Mercury Flyby [more] |
