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ASU scientist uses NASA MESSENGER mission data to measure chromium on Mercury
Jul 11, 2023 (SPX)
The NASA Discovery-class MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) mission, and first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, captured measu...
A trio of images highlight BepiColombo's third Mercury flyby
Jun 22, 2023 (ESA)
The closest approach took place at 19:34 UTC (21:34 CEST) on 19 June 2023, about 236 km above the planet's surface, on the night side of the planet. "Everything...
BepiColombo braces for third Mercury flyby
Jun 15, 2023 (ESA)
The closest approach of Monday's flyby will take place at 19:34 UTC (21:34 CEST). BepiColombo will approach on the night side of the planet, meaning the most in...
BepiColombo's second Mercury flyby
Jun 28, 2022 (ESA)
The compilation includes images from two monitoring cameras (MCAM) onboard the Mercury Transfer Module, which provides black-and-white snapshots at 1024 x 1024 ...
Second helpings of Mercury
Jun 24, 2022 (ESA)
The MCAM images, which provide black-and-white snapshots in 1024 x 1024 pixel resolution, were downloaded over the course of yesterday afternoon, and a selectio...
BepiColombo lines up for second Mercury flyby
Jun 21, 2022 (ESA)
Like its first encounter last year, this week's flyby will also bring the spacecraft to within about 200 km altitude above the planet's surface. Closest approac...
Solar Wind a Major Driver of Atmospheric Sodium at Mercury
May 31, 2022 (SPX)
The Sun's magnetic field lines are carried by the solar wind and bend as they collide with those of Mercury. When conditions are right, these bent lines break a...
Space dust, asteroids and comets can account for all water on Mercury
Apr 22, 2022 (SPX)
We have known for a few decades that Mercury harbors water. You might expect that this can only be in the form of water vapor. After all, the planet has no atmo...
Scientists find Mercury has magnetic storms
Apr 01, 2022 (SPX)
The research by scientists in the United States, Canada and China includes work by Hui Zhang, a space physics professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Ge...
Radar studies of ice at Mercury may help Artemis Program
Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)
"Mercury's polar deposits stand out nicely in radar imagery, unlike on the Moon where it has been difficult to say for certain where and how much ice there is i...
BepiColombo's first views of Mercury
Oct 05, 2021 (ESA)
"The flyby was flawless from the spacecraft point of view, and it's incredible to finally see our target planet," says Elsa Montagnon, Spacecraft Operations Man...
BepiColombo swings by Mercury ahead of 2025 orbital insertion
Oct 04, 2021 (ESA)
The image was taken at 23:44:12 UTC by the Mercury Transfer Module's Monitoring Camera 2, when the spacecraft was about 2418 km from Mercury. Closest approach o...
Europe-Japan space mission captures images of Mercury
Oct 02, 2021 (AFP)
The images were obtained almost three years after the unmanned mission vessel was launched aboard an Ariane 5 Rocket. The cameras attached the BepiColombo provi...
Mercury ahead
Oct 01, 2021 (ESA)
Hot on the heels of its last Venus flyby in August, the spacecraft's next exciting encounter is with Mercury at 23:34 UTC on 1 October (01:34 CEST 2 October). I...
Scientists Have New Data on the Nearest Planet to the Sun
Aug 06, 2021 (SPX)
Their exact age is difficult to estimate, but the fact that they are deeper compared to heavily degraded craters of similar size indicates that they are relativ...
Why does Mercury have a big iron core?
Jul 07, 2021 (SPX)
The details of their research were published in the journal Progress in Earth and Planetary Science on July 5, 2021. Planets have iron cores surrounded by a roc...
Proximity to Sun's magnetic field influenced Mercury's hefty iron core
Jul 05, 2021 (SPX)
William McDonough, a professor of geology at the University of Maryland, and Takashi Yoshizaki of Tohoku University developed a model showing that the density, ...
BepiColombo Slows Down at Venus En Route to Mercury
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
The two-orbiter spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) are part of a joint mission that will reach this point after ...
MESSENGER Shows How a Spacecraft Could End Neutron Lifetime Stalemate
Jun 12, 2020 (SPX)
Now, a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Durham University in England has provided a way that...
Earth flyby opens new science opportunities for BepiColombo
May 01, 2020 (ESA)
The orbit-tightening manoeuvre, which saw BepiColombo come as close as 12 689 km to our planet's surface at 04:25 UTC on 10 April 2020, provided an opportunity ...
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