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I was actually fortunate enough to work on the MESSENGER mission for a while (in a small way). Sad to see it go, but it had a really good run. This article has

• Yadi 11y ago
  Thanks for sharing this link! Congrats, it must feel awesome to be a part something like this and sad to see come to an end. May I ask what parts of the project were you working on at the time? Also, I read about MESSENGER's mission here: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Mercury&MCode=MESSENGER https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Targe... Did it accomplish all the missions?
  • ramidarigaz 11y ago
    The lab I work for (http://lasp.colorado.edu/ http://lasp.colorado.edu/) has an instrument on board (MASCS). I worked on a 3D visualization tool for the data it produced. As far as I know, it accomplished all its goals (and more!). Many of the findings, especially the ice in the polar craters, were completely unexpected, and that's the most exciting part of doing science!
    • Yadi 11y ago
      That is pretty rad! Kudos, thanks for info.
    • hga 11y ago
      In all fairness, that's the most exciting thing for experimentalists. For theoreticians, it's a variation on the same thing, coming up with a theory that explains phenomena beyond what they were developing it for, e.g. Einstein's single greatest personal experience was when he discovered his general relativity explained an anomaly of Mercury's orbit.