9.5K views · 90 reactions | On April 30, 2015, NASA's MESSENGER...

94K views · 1.8K reactions | BepiColombo spacecraft performing a close Mercury flyby! #fblifestyle | Space Xplore | Facebook

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• 2018 Transit of Mercury • On May 9, 2016, a NASA solar telescope called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, observed Mercury crossing in front of the sun — an astronomical phenomenon known as a Mercury transit. During the transit, IRIS focused on Mercury in order to help calibrate its telescope. By observing the planet — a region that ideally should appear completely dark — the team could determine just how the optics focus incoming light. IRIS can then be recalibrated to accom

14K views · 749 reactions | The Mercury transit has begun!  Our Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite caught this view of Mercury crossing onto the disk of the Sun in ultraviolet light. The entire event lasts about five and a half hours (until just after 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT), so watch online with us throughout the day at mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov. | NASA Space Alerts | Facebook

Say hi to “Mercury”! I’m a photographer. All my models are rescues from sanctuaries in Georgia. And I use landscapes as a metaphor for freedom and base the type of landscape on what they’ve gone through, then I put the 2 together by hand #photography #horsephotography #horsephotographer #horseart | Ashley Lynn Fotos

BepiColombo spacecraft performing a close Mercury flyby! | Space Xplore

80K views · 1.6K reactions | Planet Mercury - our closest-ever flyby, done this month by ESA/JAXA spacecraft BepiColombo. Just 100 mi/165 km above the scarred surface, so close to the Sun. info: https://tinyurl.com/j7ezsevy | Col. Chris Hadfield | Facebook