Kandasnya MESSENGER spacecraft is not due to a technical fault astronauts or space mission the crew of developers but because the fuel has run out MESSENGER. After 4 years of being in space, to capture imaging in space, the plane eventually ran aground and hit the surface of Mercury.
As reported brilio.net of Hufftingtonpost.com, Saturday (2/5), NASA said the spacecraft MESSENGER 11-year-old ran out of fuel and hit Mercury's surface at a speed of about 8,750 miles per hour (3.91 kilometers per second). Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed the spacecraft hit the surface of Mercury at 03:26 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time).
This mission is actually quite successful, because the target has been reached. Which surrounds the planet Mercury 4105 times within 4 years. And it has been successful imaging.
MESSENGER launched on 3 August 2004 and began to orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011. At the end of the mission, Although already completed its main scientific objectives in March 2012, the aircraft mission was extended twice, allowing it to capture images and information about the planet.
Among many MESSENGER mission accomplishment, which determine the composition of Mercury's surface, reveal the geological history, finding its internal magnetic field, as well as verifying the polar deposits are dominated by water ice turns.
And unmanned research has received many accolades from many quarters because of successful control of air from a distance, Mercury researching for 4 years. This is proof that NASA has a vision of the future to conquer space.
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