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Mercury, the incredible shrinking planet
Mar 16, 2014 (AFP)
Beneath its Sun-scorched exterior, the planet Mercury is cooling, which is causing it to shrink ever so slightly, scientists said Sunday. Over the last 3.8 bill...
Eleventh MESSENGER Planetary Data System Release Is the Largest Yet
Mar 11, 2014 (SPX)
NASA requires that all of its planetary missions archive their data in the PDS, which provides well-documented, peer-reviewed data to the research community. Th...
MESSENGER Surpasses 200,000 Orbital Images of Mercury
Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)
MESSENGER has now returned more than 200,000 images acquired from orbit about Mercury. The 1996 proposal for the mission promised a return of at least 1,000 ima...
MESSENGER Celebrates 1,000 Earth Days in Orbit around Mercury
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
Later today, the MESSENGER spacecraft will have completed 1,000 Earth days of flight operations in orbit around Mercury. "This milestone is a testament to the o...
MESSENGER Detects Comets ISON and Encke, Prepares For Closer Encounters
Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Mercury-orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft has captured images of two comets -- 2P/Encke and C/2012 S1 (ISON) -- setting the stage for observations later this...
MESSENGER to Capture Images of Earth and Moon During Search for Satellites of Mercury
Jul 22, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Mercury-orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft will capture images of Earth on July 19 and 20. The images will be taken at 7:49 a.m., 8:38 a.m. and 9:41 a.m. EDT ...
New insights concerning the early bombardment history on Mercury
Jul 09, 2013 (SPX)
The surface of Mercury is rather different from those of well-known rocky bodies like the Moon and Mars. Early images from the Mariner 10 spacecraft unveiled a ...
NASA and Italian Space Agency Sign Agreement on Exploration of Mercury
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
At a meeting in Rome Thursday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Enrico Saggese signed a Memorandum of Understanding fo...
IAU Approves New Names for Ten Major Fault Scarps on Mercury
Jun 11, 2013 (SPX)
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved a proposal from the MESSENGER Science Team to assign names to 10 rupes, the long cliff-like escarpm...
NASA Watches Solar Magnetic Field As MESSENGER Clocks Up 2000 Orbits
May 27, 2013 (SPX)
MESSENGER began its 2,000th orbit around Mercury earlier this week, on May 22. The spacecraft completed its primary mission on March 17, 2012, and its first ext...
A meteorite mystery from Mercury?
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
Early in 2012, someone in Southern Morocco picked up 35 greenish stones, including the one shown above. Purchased by a dealer in Erfoud, Morocco, it was then re...
Active Plume Observed At Mercury
Apr 02, 2013 (SPX)
In a groundbreaking discovery for Mercury science, the MESSENGER spacecraft imaged a plume of material erupting from the surface of the innermost planet. In an ...
MESSENGER Completes Its First Extended Mission at Mercury
Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)
On March 17, 2013, MESSENGER successfully completed its year-long first extended mission in orbit about Mercury, building on the groundbreaking scientific resul...
The mercury rises for BepiColombo
Mar 13, 2013 (ESA)
The engineering model of the BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module has completed a 12-day Sun-simulation test inside the Large Space Simulator at ESA's test centr...
Planetary Data System Releases MESSENGER Data from Third Mercury Solar Day
Mar 12, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Planetary Data System released a new data set collected during MESSENGER's thirteenth through eighteenth month in orbit around Mercury. With this release...
Mercury may have harbored an ancient magma ocean
Feb 27, 2013 (SPX)
By analyzing Mercury's rocky surface, scientists have been able to partially reconstruct the planet's history over billions of years. Now, drawing upon the chem...
BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Proto-Flight Mechanical and Propulsion Bus undergoes bake-out
Feb 06, 2013 (ESA)
The BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Mechanical and Propulsion Bus Proto-Flight Model (the structure with integrated heat pipes and chemical propulsion sub...
Mercury's crust likely made of magnesium-rich basalt
Jan 31, 2013 (SPX)
With both x-ray and gamma-ray spectrometers, the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging probe (MESSENGER), which entered orbit around Merc...
BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module Mass Properties Measurement
Dec 18, 2012 (ESA)
The mass properties of the BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module Structural and Thermal Model have been measured. The transfer module's primary task is to provide...
Altimeter Built at Goddard Helped Identify Ice on Mercury
Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)
A Goddard-built instrument on NASA's MESSENGER mission provided one of three new lines of evidence that water ice exists near the north pole of Mercury. Most of...
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