Observe the sun and Mercury this month while celebrating the Messenger spacecraft's Mercury orbit insertion on March 18 and Sun-Earth day on March 19.
Image credit: By Deirdre Kelleghan, painting inspired by SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory)
Jane is an astronomer, NASA science podcast developer, writer, educational and outreach artisan
and social media enthusiast. She and her husband have an asteroid
(22338 Janemojo)
named after them. She's also the human behind the @CassiniSaturn Twitter Account.