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Last Chance: Mercury Crater-Naming Contest Ends January 15
Jan 14, 2015 (SPX)
The MESSENGER Education and Public Outreach (EPO) Team is reminding interested parties that the competition to name five impact craters on Mercury closes on Jan...
Innovative use of Pressurant Extends Messenger's Mission
Dec 29, 2014 (SPX)
The MESSENGER spacecraft will soon run literally on fumes. After more than 10 years traveling in space, nearly four of those orbiting Mercury, the spacecraft ha...
MESSENGER Data Suggest Recurring Meteor Shower on Mercury
Dec 15, 2014 (SPX)
The closest planet to the sun appears to get hit by a periodic meteor shower, possibly associated with a comet that produces multiple events annually on Earth. ...
NASA is letting people name the craters of Mercury
Dec 15, 2014 (UPI)
The team behind NASA's Mercury orbiter, MESSENGER, has begun a competition to name the craters of Mercury. People will not be allowed to pick their own name for...
Third of Four Planned Maneuvers Extends Messenger Orbital Operations
Oct 28, 2014 (SPX)
Messenger mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., conducted the third of four maneuvers to raise the spac...
Messenger Images Ice Near Mercury's North Pole
Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft has provided the first optical images of ice and other frozen volati...
Water ice spotted on the planet Mercury
Oct 16, 2014 (UPI)
Images beamed back from the NASA's Mercury Messenger mission show that in the deep, dark, bowl-shaped cavities of the planet closest to the sun sits ice -- wate...
Planets with Oddball Orbits Like Mercury Could Host Life
Sep 29, 2014 (NASA)
Mercury has an oddball orbit - it takes longer for it to rotate on its axis and complete a day than it takes to orbit the sun and complete a year. Now, research...
12th Batch of Messenger Data Released; Water Ice Exploration Tool Unveiled
Sep 11, 2014 (SPX)
Data collected during MESSENGER's 31st through 36th month in orbit around Mercury were released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organizatio...
MESSENGER Team Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Launch
Aug 07, 2014 (SPX)
Ten years ago, on August 3, 2004, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for a risky mission that would take the small satellite ...
MESSENGER Gets Closer to Mercury than Ever Before
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
On July 25, MESSENGER moved closer to Mercury than any spacecraft has before, dropping to an altitude at closest approach of only 100 kilometers (62 miles) abov...
Mercury's magnetic field tells scientists how its interior is different from Earth's
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
Earth and Mercury are both rocky planets with iron cores, but Mercury's interior differs from Earth's in a way that explains why the planet has such a bizarre m...
Bepicolombo Integration Testing Completed At Thales
Jul 29, 2014 (ESA)
Integration and functional testing activities for the protoflight models of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter, Mercury Transfer Module, and Magnetospher...
Planet Mercury a result of early hit-and-run collisions
Jul 09, 2014 (SPX)
Planet Mercury's unusual metal-rich composition has been a longstanding puzzle in planetary science. According to a study published online in Nature Geoscience ...
Messenger Spots Giant Space Weather Effects at Mercury
Jun 17, 2014 (SPX)
The solar wind of particles streaming off the sun helps drive flows and swirls in space as complicated as any terrestrial weather pattern. Scientists have now s...
Mercury Passes in Front of the Sun, as Seen From Mars
Jun 11, 2014 (JPL)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has imaged the planet Mercury passing in front of the sun, visible as a faint darkening that moves across the face of the sun. This ...
MESSENGER Completes Its 3,000th Orbit of Mercury, Sets Mark for Closest Approach
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
On April 20, MESSENGER completed its 3,000th orbit of Mercury and moved closer to the planet than any spacecraft has been before, dropping to an altitude of 199...
Ancient volcanic explosions shed light on Mercury's origins
Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)
The surface of Mercury crackled with volcanic explosions for extended periods of the planet's history, according to a new analysis led by researchers at Brown U...
Mercury contracted more than prior estimates
Mar 18, 2014 (SPX)
New evidence gathered by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury indicates the planet closest to the sun has shrunk up to 7 kilometers in radius over the past 4 ...
Mercury's contraction much greater than thought
Mar 18, 2014 (SPX)
New global imaging and topographic data from MESSENGER* show that the innermost planet has contracted far more than previous estimates. The results are based on...
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