Edited Screenshot I Took Of A Gas Giant From The Simulator “Space Engine” [3089x2980]

MESSENGER Spacecraft 

MESSENGER (whose backronym is Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging, and which is a reference to the Roman mythological messenger, Mercury) was a NASA robotic spacecraft that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015. The spacecraft was launched aboard a Delta II rocket in August 2004 to study Mercury’s chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field.

The instruments carried by MESSENGER were used on a complex series of flybys – the spacecraft flew by Earth once, Venus twice, and Mercury itself three times, allowing it to decelerate relative to Mercury using minimal fuel. During its first flyby of Mercury in January 2008, MESSENGER became the second mission after Mariner 10’s 1975 flyby to reach Mercury.

MESSENGER entered orbit around Mercury on March 18, 2011, becoming the first spacecraft to do so. It successfully completed its primary mission in 2012. Following two mission extensions, the MESSENGER spacecraft used the last of its maneuvering propellant and deorbited as planned, impacting the surface of Mercury on April 30, 2015

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Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Inside - Vadim Sadovski

Pictures of the day 2 - December 4, 2018

Insight B System - Sixth Planet (Insight B-VI)

Insight B-VI is the outer-most planet orbiting Insight B. The planet is a Jupiter-Sized gas giant with a mass of 1.42 Jupiter Masses, and a radius of 74,962 kilometers. A thick carbon-rich ring system surround the planet.

Insight B-VI orbits its sun at an average distance of 1.74 AU, completing an orbit once every 2.79 Earth Years. A day on the planet lasts only 8 hours and 7 minutes. It is a frigid giant, the atmosphere of which averages -258 F. Monstrous storms rage in the planet’s atmosphere, powered by internally released heat.

The planet is the only world in the system to by surrounded by a major lunar system. Three massive moons larger than Mars orbit the planet, along with 3 smaller rounded satellites, and 74 asteroid-like moons.

High Resolution Pictures

Insight B-VI

South Pole

Giant Storm

Inner-most Major Moon.

Approaching Eclipse

Galaxy Center

Picture of the day - November 6, 2018

The center of the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy, according to space engine.

Picture of the Day - January 19, 2019

An ice giant moon of a gas giant.

Space Engine System ID: RS 8550-3584-7-11773-222 4.1 to visit the moon in Space Engine.

Picture of the day - November 14, 2018

Twin suns begin rising over an airless Mercury-Like planet.

Alien Planet View

Picture of the day - December 18, 2018

Polar vortex over the northern pole of Insight A-II

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Picture of the Day - January 30, 2019 - (Very late post)

Violet-colored planet with its two moons.