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Spacecraft unveiled for first Europe mission to Mercury
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
Set for launch in 2018, BepiColombo will be the European Space Agency's (ESA) first mission to the closest rock to the Sun. The craft has an unusual design, com...
3D Navigation Tool Among MESSENGER's Final Data Products
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
With this 16th data release, the MESSENGER mission has shared more than 10 terabytes of Mercury science data, including nearly 300,000 images, millions of spect...
Nuclear winter with iron snow discovered on Mercury
Jan 24, 2017 (Sputnik)
Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System has its own magnetic field like the Earth, scientist revealed. Previously it was thought that tha...
Great valley found on Mercury
Nov 21, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered a new large valley on Mercury that may be the first evidence of buckling of the planet's outer silicate shell in response to global c...
Bern-made laser altimeter taking off to Mercury
Oct 06, 2016 (SPX)
University of Bern's Laser Altimeter BELA has been successfully tested during the last weeks and the last components will be delivered to ESA on 5 October. The ...
Planet Mercury Found to Be Tectonically Active
Sep 28, 2016 (SPX)
Images acquired by NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft show geologic features that indicate Mercury is l...
Messenger probe images fault scarps on Mercury's surface
Sep 26, 2016 (UPI)
Like Earth, Mercury is tectonically active. As evidenced by images captured by NASA's Messenger probe, Mercury's surface is host to fault scarps. The geologic p...
Researchers find most volcanic activity on Mercury stopped over 3 billion years ago
Aug 09, 2016 (SPX)
New research from North Carolina State University finds that major volcanic activity on the planet Mercury most likely ended about 3.5 billion years ago. These ...
BepiColombo Mission to Mercury on Track for April 2018 Launch
Jul 22, 2016 (SPX)
Humanity's next visitor to the solar system's innermost planet remains on track for April 2018, according to the project's scientist. The BepiColombo mission, b...
Mercury's Surface Arose from Deep Inside the Planet
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
NASA researchers have found that several volcanic deposits on Mercury's surface require mantle melting to have started close to the planet's core-mantle boundar...
Researchers trace Mercury's origins to rare meteorite
Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)
Around 4.6 billion years ago, the universe was a chaos of collapsing gas and spinning debris. Small particles of gas and dust clumped together into larger and m...
First global topographic model of Mercury
May 10, 2016 (SPX)
The MESSENGER mission has released the first global digital elevation model (DEM) of Mercury, revealing in stunning detail the topography across the entire inne...
The 2016 Transit of Mercury
May 08, 2016 (SPX)
Solar Scientists are accustomed to seeing spots on the sun - irregular islands of magnetism that sometimes erupt, producing strong solar flares. On May 9, 2016,...
Mercury's mysterious 'darkness' revealed
Mar 09, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have long been puzzled about what makes Mercury's surface so dark. The innermost planet reflects much less sunlight than the Moon, a body on which su...
Scientists explain why Mercury's surface is so dark
Mar 07, 2016 (UPI)
Astronomers have long struggled to explain Mercury's darkness, but new research suggests carbon is responsible for the planet's limited reflectivity. Iron-rich ...
Planetary Data System Releases Final Raw MESSENGER Dataset
Oct 12, 2015 (SPX)
Data collected during MESSENGER's 43rd through 49th months in orbit around Mercury were released to the public by NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS), the networ...
Mercury featuring prominently in October skies
Oct 12, 2015 (UPI)
Mercury is set to join the planetary party being held in the predawn sky. For the last couple weeks, Mars, Jupiter and Venus have been congregating in the North...
Mercury's Movements Give Scientists Peek Inside the Planet
Sep 10, 2015 (SPX)
The first measurements of Mercury's movements from a spacecraft orbiting the planet reveal new insights about the makeup of the solar system's innermost world a...
UK-built technology brings Europe's Mercury mission closer to launch
May 20, 2015 (SPX)
A UK-built instrument, designed to unlock the secrets of Mercury's surface, has been shipped from the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre to the Eur...
Mercury's core dynamo present early in planet's history
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
The Messenger spacecraft, which crash-landed into Mercury just a few days ago, found traces of magnetization in Mercury's crust, a new study reports. The presen...
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