NASA Spacecraft Ready for Science-Rich Encounter With Venus

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This artistacutes impression shows NASAacutes Mercury-bound MESSENGER from the sunshade side. The sunshade shields the spacecraftacutes instruments from heat and solar radiation. Image Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
This artist's impression shows NASA's Mercury-bound MESSENGER from the sunshade side. The sunshade shields the spacecraft's instruments from heat and solar radiation. Image Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will make its closest pass to Venus on Tuesday, June 5. This will place the spacecraft on target for a flyby of Mercury in January 2008. MESSENGER will be the first probe to visit the innermost planet in more than 30 years.


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