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Strofio will measure Mercury's exosphere on BepiColombo mission
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
"An exosphere is different from an atmosphere," said Dr. Stefano Livi, an Institute Scientist who leads the Strofio experiment, funded by NASA's Discovery Missi...
BepiColombo: Two Orbiters Head to Mercury
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
Apart from Earth, Mercury is the only terrestrial planet with its own magnetic field, and yet it has only been visited by two space missions so far. This is ind...
Mercury mission to explore origin of Solar System
Oct 20, 2018 (AFP)
An unmanned European-Japanese space mission, dubbed BepiColombo, blasted off early Saturday morning from French Guiana, to probe these and other mysteries. "Bep...
Bepicolombo blasts off to investigate Mercury's mysteries
Oct 20, 2018 (ESA)
Signals from the spacecraft, received at ESA's control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, via the New Norcia ground tracking station at 02:21 GMT confirmed that the ...
Practising for BepiColombo's epic escape to Mercury
Oct 15, 2018 (ESA)
With launch set for 20 October, flight controllers led by Operations Manager Elsa Montagnon are now busily preparing for the start of what will be Europe's firs...
BepiColombo is readied for launch to Mercury
Oct 03, 2018 (SPX)
The four-in-one spacecraft will set off in October on-board Ariane 5 flight VA 245 for its journey to the smallest and least explored rocky planet in our Solar ...
Mercury Studies Reveal an Intriguing Target for BepiColombo
Sep 20, 2018 (ESA)
Mercury is the least-studied of the terrestrial planets and is something of an anomaly compared to Venus, Earth, and Mars. It is very small, very dense, has an ...
Bepicolombo Science Orbiters Stacked Together
Sep 03, 2018 (ESA)
The mission completed its Qualification Acceptance Review in the last week, which confirms it is on track for its 19 October launch. The three-spacecraft missio...
BepiColombo to target mid-October launch
Jul 27, 2018 (ESA)
The joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission will launch on an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, setting a trio of spacecraft on course for Mercury. The spa...
New estimates of Mercury's thin, dense crust
Apr 30, 2018 (SPX)
After the probe's mission ended in 2015, planetary scientists estimated Mercury's crust was roughly 22 miles thick. One University of Arizona scientist disagree...
Airbus-built Mercury-mission is on its way to Kourou for launch
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
After a fuelling stop in the Azores Islands the Antonov will arrive early on 24 April. This Antonov flight was the first of four flights needed to transport the...
Understanding Mercury's Magnetic Tail
Apr 17, 2018 (SPX)
Magnetic material's flow inside a planet creates a global magnetic field. In Mercury, and in Earth, liquid metal currents in the planetary cores induce the plan...
Newly discovered planet is hot, metallic and dense as Mercury
Mar 28, 2018 (SPX)
Named K2-229b, the planet is almost 20% larger than Earth but has a mass which is over two-and-a-half times greater - and reaches a dayside temperature of over ...
BepiColombo gets green light for launch site
Mar 12, 2018 (SPX)
The mission passed a major review yesterday, meaning that the three BepiColombo spacecraft, along with ground equipment and mission experts, are confirmed to st...
NASA team studies middle-aged sun by tracking motion of Mercury
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
The new values improve upon earlier predictions by reducing the amount of uncertainty. That's especially important for the rate of solar mass loss, because it's...
Mercury map renders the innermost planet's geology in color
Oct 09, 2017 (UPI)
Using data collected by NASA's Messenger mission between 2010 and 2015, scientists plotted a color-coded map of the Victoria Quadrangle, a crater-filled region ...
Small collisions make big impact on Mercury's thin atmosphere
Oct 02, 2017 (SPX)
This study also gave new insight into how these micrometeoroid showers can shape Mercury's very thin atmosphere, called an exosphere. The research, led by Petr ...
New research suggests Mercury's poles are icier than scientists thought
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, adds three new members to the list of craters near Mercury's north pole that appear to harbor large surfac...
The BepiColombo spacecraft is ready to solve the many mysteries of Mercury
Jul 13, 2017 (The Conversation)
This is the culmination of nearly two decades of work by a team of highly motivated scientists and engineers, many of whom I have come to know through my own ro...
Preparing for Mercury: BepiColombo stack completes testing
Jul 07, 2017 (ESA)
BepiColombo's two orbiters, Japan's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter and ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter, will be carried together by the Mercury Transport Module...
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