MESSENGER Bids Farewell to Venus
October 7, 2008
These images represent the last view of Venus by MESSENGER, but they also point toward the spacecraft’s first encounter with Mercury in January 2008.
Topics:
Disaster Accident, Environment, Discovery program, Mercury spacecraft, Terrestrial planets, Mariner 10, Observations and explorations of Venus, Spacecraft, Venus, Mercury, Spaceflight, MESSENGER