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MESSENGER Mercury Flyby 3 - 3D Ground Track View

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Uploaded by on Sep 28, 2009

This animation of MESSENGER's 3rd flyby of Mercury on September 29, 2009 shows the spacecraft's ground track on Mercury's surface with time ticks every two minutes and labeled latitude and longitude lines. The latitude, longitude, and altitude of MESSENGER are shown every 10 seconds within one hour of closest approach on September 29, 2009. The view of Mercury combines Mariner 10 spacecraft images, MESSENGER Mercury flyby 1 and 2 images and surface feature names.

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