{"id":32840,"date":"2011-03-20T15:42:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T15:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/messenger-arrives-at-mercury-today-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T15:42:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T15:42:47","slug":"messenger-arrives-at-mercury-today-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/messenger-arrives-at-mercury-today-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"MESSENGER arrives at Mercury today! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note to y&rsquo;all, since I&rsquo;m in the middle of about eight things all demanding my full attention: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/messenger.jhuapl.edu\/\">the MESSENGER spacecraft<\/a> will enter orbit around Mercury tonight at 9:00 p.m. EDT, after a tortuous 7-year journey. Once safely circling the planet, engineers will be focusing on making sure the probe is safe and sound, so it&rsquo;ll be a while (days) before we start getting images. <\/p><p>I&rsquo;m quite sure my pal Emily Lakdawalla will be poised for attack on every tidbit of news that comes in, so follow her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/elakdawalla\">on Twitter<\/a> and on her blog at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blog\/\">the Planetary Society<\/a>.<\/p><p> <em><\/em><\/p><p>Related posts:<\/p><p>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/02\/18\/messengers-family-portrait\/\">MESSENGER&rsquo;s family portrait<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/10\/08\/messengers-third-tryst-with-mercury\/\">MESSENGER&rsquo;s third tryst with Mercury<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/05\/03\/mercury-hides-a-monster-impact\/\">Mercury hides a monster impact<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/12\/23\/messenger-contacts-the-borg\/\">MESSENGER contacts the Borg queen<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BWkhmzJxckHgOuog-ru2o4bKfkc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2d7fb_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BWkhmzJxckHgOuog-ru2o4bKfkc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2d7fb_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ec7ce_ZyfXZLkMMSI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ec7ce_zR7rPDKB33k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note to y&rsquo;all, since I&rsquo;m in the middle of about eight things all demanding my full attention: the MESSENGER spacecraft will enter orbit around Mercury tonight at 9:00 p.m. EDT, after a tortuous 7-year journey. Once safely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/messenger-arrives-at-mercury-today-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}