Messenger Makes Another Successful Orbit Adjustment
by Staff WritersLaurel MD (SPX) Jul 28, 2011 The next orbit-correction maneuver is scheduled for September 7 and will lower the periapsis altitude from about 470 kilometers back to 200 kilometers. The...
View ArticleStructural and Thermal Model of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter arrives at ESTEC
by Staff WritersNoordwijk, the Netherlands (SPX) Aug 10, 2011 The BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) Structural and Thermal Model (STM), mounted on its ground handling trolley in a cleanroom...
View ArticleMESSENGER Team Delivers First Orbital Data to Planetary Data System
by Staff WritersLaurel MD (SPX) Sep 12, 2011 Since the mid-1990s, NASA has required all of its planetary missions to archive data in the PDS, an active archive that makes available well-documented,...
View ArticleAriane rocket to hoist Europe-Japan mission to Mercury
by Staff WritersParis (AFP) Sept 15, 2011 An unmanned European-Japanese mission to Mercury will be launched by Ariane 5 rocket in July 2014 under a contract announced on Thursday by Arianespace. The...
View ArticleMESSENGER Team Presents New Mercury Findings at Planetary Conference
by Staff WritersNantes, France (SPX) Oct 06, 2011 Footprints of the MASCS Instrument on Mercury's Surface - For more images and information about Mercury with the Messenger site at APL MESSENGER...
View ArticleExtreme Space Weather at Mercury Blasts the Planet's Poles
by Staff Writers Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Oct 05, 2011 Planet Mercury as seen from the MESSENGER spacecraft in 2008. Credit: NASA . The solar wind sandblasts the surface of planet Mercury at its poles,...
View ArticleMercury Planetary Orbiter takes a simulated trip to the innermost planet
by Staff Writers Paris (ESA) Oct 18, 2011 The Structural and Thermal Model (STM) of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) in the Large Space Simulator (LSS) at ESA's Test Centre in...
View ArticleFourth Orbit Adjustment Stretches MESSENGER Orbit around Mercury
by Staff WritersLaurel MD (SPX) Oct 26, 2011 File image. The MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed its fourth orbit-correction maneuver to increase the period of the spacecraft's orbit around...
View ArticleStrange Hollows Discovered on Mercury
by Dauna Coulter for NASA Science NewsHuntsville AL (SPX) Oct 25, 2011 Hollows inside the Raditladi impact basin. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution...
View ArticleScientists eye Mercury magnetic puzzle
by Staff WritersKatlenburg-Lindau, Germany (UPI) Dec 23, 2011 disclaimer: image is for illustration purposes only Mercury, the smallest planet and the closest to the sun, has an unexpectedly weak...
View ArticleMESSENGER Team Delivers Data from First Full Mercury Solar Day to Planetary...
by Staff WritersLaurel MD (SPX) Mar 12, 2012 Mercury South Pole- This mosaic was created using MESSENGER orbital images that were released by NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) on March 8, 2012. The...
View ArticleMESSENGER Finds Unusual Groups of Ridges and Troughs on Mercury
by Staff WritersLaurel MD (SPX) Nov 20, 2012 illustration only MESSENGER has discovered assemblages of tectonic landforms unlike any previously found on Mercury or elsewhere in the Solar System. The...
View ArticleIAU Approves New Names for Ten Major Fault Scarps on Mercury
by Staff WritersLaurel MD (SPX) Jun 11, 2013File image.The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved a proposal from the MESSENGER Science Team to assign names to 10 rupes, the long...
View ArticleA meteorite mystery from Mercury?
by Diana Lutz for WUSTL NewsSt. Louis, MO (SPX) Apr 06, 2013One of 35 meteorites of mysterious origin found in the Moroccan desert. This piece weighs 100 grams. The alphabet block to the right is a...
View ArticleMESSENGER Completes Its First Extended Mission at Mercury
by Staff WritersLaurel MD (SPX) Mar 20, 2013File image.On March 17, 2013, MESSENGER successfully completed its year-long first extended mission in orbit about Mercury, building on the groundbreaking...
View ArticlePlanetary Data System Releases MESSENGER Data from Third Mercury Solar Day
by Staff WritersLaurel MD (SPX) Mar 12, 2013"Mercury is a planet of many mysteries," adds MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon, of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory....
View ArticleNASA and Italian Space Agency Sign Agreement on Exploration of Mercury
by Staff WritersWashington DC (SPX) Jun 24, 2013File image.At a meeting in Rome Thursday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Enrico Saggese signed a Memorandum...
View ArticleMercury may have harbored an ancient magma ocean
by Jennifer Chu for MIT NewsBoston MA (SPX) Feb 27, 2013File image.By analyzing Mercury's rocky surface, scientists have been able to partially reconstruct the planet's history over billions of years....
View ArticleMESSENGER to Capture Images of Earth and Moon During Search for Satellites...
by Staff Writers Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 22, 2013 File image. 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....
View ArticleNew insights concerning the early bombardment history on Mercury
by Staff Writers Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 09, 2013 The figure shows an image of Mercury's surface (left; obtained using publicly available mosaic of Mercury from the MESSENGER spacecraft found at...
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