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Spacecraft Finds New Evidence for Water Ice on Mercury
Nov 30, 2012 (SPX)
New observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft provide compelling support for the long-held hypothesis that Mercury harbors abundant water ice and other frozen vo...
Large ice deposits found on planet nearest the sun
Nov 29, 2012 (AFP)
Scientists Thursday announced new evidence that Mercury, the planet orbiting nearest the Sun, hosts massive caches of ice and revealed new information on how wa...
MESSENGER Finds Unusual Groups of Ridges and Troughs on Mercury
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
MESSENGER has discovered assemblages of tectonic landforms unlike any previously found on Mercury or elsewhere in the Solar System. The surface of Mercury is co...
High-Frequency Flux Transfer Events Detected Near Mercury
Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)
The physical process that creates connections between the magnetic fields emanating from the Sun and a planet - a process known as magnetic reconnection - creat...
MESSENGER Data from Second Full Mercury Solar Day in Orbit Released by Planetary Data System
Sep 17, 2012 (SPX)
MESSENGER Data from Second Full Mercury Solar Day in Orbit Released by Planetary Data System Late last week, the Planetary Data System (PDS) released data colle...
The shock of separation
Aug 31, 2012 (ESA)
The BepiColombo mission to Mercury has undergone a series of shock tests at ESA's test facilities to replicate conditions it will experience during its intense ...
BepiColombo Composite Spacecraft Vibration Testing
Aug 21, 2012 (ESA)
The BepiColombo Structural and Thermal Model test campaign has passed another milestone with the completion of sine vibration testing at qualification level alo...
BepiColombo Composite Spacecraft Mass Properties Measurements
Jul 12, 2012 (ESA)
The mass properties of the BepiColombo Mercury Composite Spacecraft have been measured. This is the first time that the spacecraft structural and thermal model ...
MESSENGER Completes Its 1,000th Orbit of Mercury
Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)
MESSENGER will complete its 1,000th orbit of the planet closest to the Sun at 11:22 p.m. EDT tonight. "Reaching this milestone is yet another testimony to the h...
BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Mass Properties Measurements
Jun 22, 2012 (ESA)
The mass properties of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter have been measured using specialist equipment in ESA's European Space Research and Technology C...
Mercury's Magnetic Field Measured by MESSENGER Orbiter
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers working with NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft report the frequent detections of Kelvin-He...
Messenger Gains Deputy Principal Investigator
May 11, 2012 (SPX)
Larry Nittler, a staff scientist in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has been named deputy principal investiga...
MESSENGER's Cameras Capture 100,000th Image from Mercury Orbit
May 08, 2012 (SPX)
This week, MESSENGER's Mercury Dual Imaging System delivered the 100,000th image of Mercury since the spacecraft entered into orbit around the planet on March 1...
BepiColombo Planetary Orbiter and Transfer Module mated for first time
May 01, 2012 (ESA)
The Structural and Thermal Models of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Mercury Transfer Module were mated for the first time on 11 April 2012. The m...
MESSENGER Settles into Eight-Hour Orbit Around Mercury, Poised for New Discoveries
Apr 23, 2012 (SPX)
MESSENGER mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., conducted the second of two maneuvers required to...
MESSENGER Adjusts Orbit for a Closer Look at Mercury
Apr 19, 2012 (SPX)
The MESSENGER mission successfully completed the first of two maneuvers designed to reduce the spacecraft's orbital period about Mercury. This new trajectory wi...
Mercury's Surprising Core and Landscape Curiosities
Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)
On March 17, the tiny MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission to orbit and observe the planet Mercury for one Earth-year. The bounty of surprises fro...
Data from MESSENGER spacecraft reveals new insights on planet Mercury
Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)
Thanks to the MESSENGER spacecraft, and a mission that took more than 10 years to complete, scientists now have a good picture of the solar system's innermost p...
MESSENGER Provides New Look at Mercury's Landscape, Metallic Core, and Polar Shadows
Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)
MESSENGER completed its one-year primary mission on March 17. Since moving into orbit about Mercury a little over one year ago, the spacecraft has captured near...
MESSENGER Completes Primary Mission at Mercury, Settles in for Another Year
Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)
On March 17, 2012, MESSENGER successfully wrapped up a year-long campaign to perform the first complete reconnaissance of the geochemistry, geophysics, geologic...
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