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The Messenger Mission to Mercury
by Deborah (edt) Domingue
Available from Powells Used Books
$179.25
on 8-9-2008
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Features
ISBN Number: 9780387772110
Author: Domingue, Deborah (edt)
Publisher: Springer
Editor: Russell, C. T.
Editor: Domingue, Deborah
Subject: Astrophysics & Space Science
Subject: Earth Sciences, Geology
Subject: Astronomy, General
Copyright: 2008
Publication Date: February 2008
Cover Type: Hardcover
Written in: English
Number of Pages: 800
NASAa (TM)s MESSENGER mission, launched on 3 August, 2004 is the seventh mission in the Discovery series. MESSENGER encounters the planet Mercury four times, culminating with an insertion into orbit on 18 March 2011. It carries a comprehensive package of geophysical, geological, geochemical, and space environment experiments to complete the complex investigations of this solar-system end member begun with Mariner 10. The articles in this book, written by the experts in each area of the MESSENGER mission, describe the mission, spacecraft, scientific objectives, and payload. The book is of interest to all potential users of the data returned by the MESSENGER mission, to those studying the nature of Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, and by all those interested in the design and implementation of planetary exploration missions.
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