PULL · 1 MAY 2015

This was
your sky.

MESSENGER's Last Day on Mercury

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COSMIC MESSAGE

The MESSENGER spacecraft, the first to orbit Mercury, concluded its mission by impacting this region yesterday. This scene, constructed from MESSENGER image and laser altimeter data, looks north over the northeastern rim of the Shakespeare basin. The large, 48-kilometer-wide crater Janacek is near the upper left. Terrain height is color-coded, with red regions about 3 kilometers above blue ones.

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ZODIAC CONTEXT
TAURUS

In tropical astrology, 1 MAY 2015 falls under Taurus (♉). The sign's window runs from 04-20 through 05-20. Taurus holds the Pleiades star cluster and Aldebaran, the red giant that marks the eye of the Bull. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 1 MAY 2015.

THE ALMANAC FOR 1 MAY 2015
DAY
Friday
MOON
Waxing gibbous, 94% lit
POSITION
Day 121 of 365
METEOR SHOWER
Eta Aquariid shower, peaks in 5 days