Where's The Messenger Spacecraft Now?

In case you have a burning desire to know the exact whereabouts of the Messenger Spacecraft, want to build your own model of the little probe or wonder why we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to explore a scorched and blistered little ball of rock a billion miles from nowhere when we could be spending that money to build the long-promised-but-yet-to-be-delivered lunar base, NASA keeps a nifty little site going. It's here.

I must admit, after reading the Mission breakdown and the explanation of What and Why they are doing what they are doing, I feel better about the whole thing. Scientifically speaking, Mercury holds answers-- and more perhaps even more importantly, more riddles-- to questions about how our Earth came to be.
It's also not to be overlooked that getting to Mercury requires gravity assists from three celestial bodies, no small feat. And the very idea this weary little band of explorers, NASA, has the gumption to continue 'science as usual' while it seems almost everything else is crumbling around them.
Fare thee well, little Messenger. Smooth sailing and champagne all around in 2011.

Check it out. Cheer 'em on.