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Description: These graphics show the current best prediction of the location and time of MESSENGER's impact on Mercury's surface, as of 24 hours before the impact. Those current best estimates are: Date: 30 April 2015 Time: 3:26:02 pm EDT (19:26:02 UTC) Latitude: 54.4° N Longitude: 210.1° E Traveling at 3.91 kilometers per second (over 8,700 miles per hour), the MESSENGER spacecraft will collide with Mercury's surface, creating a crater estimated to be 16 meters (52 feet) in diameter.
Title: Details of MESSENGER's Impact Location
Credit: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=1602 (image link)
Author: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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