Hi Jason and all!

Thank you for the info. I do get most of the ESA internet stuff and
have detailed plans for the Mercury mission. I also have the
MESSENGER info, however, your excellent notes bring up another
question to my mind. I will discuss it later with you all. Do me a
favor, Jason, and check to see if ESA has two, not one, mission
planned to Mercury. Let me know your link(s) on that one, please. I
will also try to find the same and we can compare notes. The last I
heard, ESA had only decided for sure on one mission, the orbiter and
lander combination.

Thanks.

-Jacques Noel