MESSENGER

A NASA spacecraft that became the first to orbit Mercury. Launched in 2004, it entered Mercury’s orbit in 2011 and conducted detailed mapping and analysis of the planet’s surface, atmosphere, and magnetic field before its controlled crash in 2015.

Source: nasa.gov

APODs including "MESSENGER"

MESSENGER's Last Day on Mercury

01/05/2025

Interplanetary Earth

23/11/2024

Leaving Earth

09/08/2022

Mercury's Sodium Tail

03/05/2022

Mercury's Sodium Tail

08/07/2020

Interplanetary Earth

12/10/2019

Leaving Earth

25/08/2019

All of Mercury

28/04/2019

Mercury Visualized from MESSENGER

11/12/2017

Mercury as Revealed by MESSENGER

23/07/2017