[FPSPACE] Very interesting interview with Bruce Murray on Mariner 10 and MESSENGER

[LARRY KLAES]

Thirty-one years ago, Bruce Murray was heading the imaging team on Mariner 10, the world's first mission to Mercury. During that $100 million magical mercurial tour, the team took thousands of pictures to map 45% of the planet's surface, while the exploratory team discovered it had a magnetic field and a very thin atmosphere. After Mariner, Murray went on to serve as the only geologist on the team planning the Grand Tour, which led to Voyager in 1972. He later became the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a position he held from 1976 to 1982. While leading JPL, he co-founded The Planetary Society with Carl Sagan and Louis Friedman in 1980, and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Murray is professor emeritus of geology and planetary sciences at the California Institute of Technology.

http://planetary.org/news/2004/conversation_murray-bruce_mariner10_0730.html<http://planetary.org/news/2004/conversation_murray-bruce_mariner10_0730.html>
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