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Mercury probe sees seasonal changes, iron on surface during third flyby.
Picture Of The Day - On Mercury
spacefellowship.com 6/2/2009 — (NASA) - Why are many large craters on Mercury relatively smooth inside? Images from the MESSENGER spacecraft that flew by Mercury in October 2008 show previously uncharted regions of the planet that have large craters with an internal smoothness similar to Earth’s own moon, and are ...
More New Looks at Mercury from MESSENGER
spacefellowship.com 10/2/2009 — Written by Nancy Atkinson
More new images were released today from the MESSENGER spacecraft’s third flyby of Mercury. I asked astrophysicist Dr. Jeff Goldstein (doctorjeff on Twitter), (who was on hand at the mission operations center to blog and Tweet about the flyby) which image the ...
MESSENGER’s second pass
sciencenews.org 5/4/2009 — Another Mercury flyby reveals details about the planet’s magnetic field and geology
Magnetic Tornadoes Could Liberate Mercury’s Tenuous Atmosphere
spacefellowship.com 6/2/2009 — (NASA) - As the closest planet to the sun, Mercury is scorching hot, with daytime temperatures of more than 800 degrees Fahrenheit (approximately 450 degrees Celsius). It is also the smallest rocky planet, so its gravity is weak, only about 38 percent of Earth’s. These conditions make it ...
NASA Spacecraft Images Previously Unseen Territory on Mercury
wired.com 10/1/2009 —
Flying within 228 kilometers of the surface of Mercury on September 29, the MESSENGER spacecraft snapped portraits of a portion of the planet that had never before been imaged close-up.
MESSENGER also examined in greater detail Mercury’s ...
Massive Mosaic of Mercury
spacefellowship.com 10/5/2009 — Written by Nancy Atkinson
If you want to REALLY see Mercury up close and personal, take a look at this absolutely HUGE mosaic of the planet.(...)Read the rest of Massive Mosaic of Mercury (110 words)
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Massive Mosaic of Mercury
universetoday.com 10/5/2009 —
If you want to REALLY see Mercury up close and personal, take a look at this absolutely HUGE mosaic of the planet . It was put together by Jason Perry, who actually works with the Cassini mission but in his spare time stitched together 66 images ...
MESSENGER’S Neutron Spectrometer Zeros in on Mercury’s Crust
spacefellowship.com 9/28/2009 — “You bet, I’m really excited about this flyby,” said William C. Feldman, a Senior Scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute and Cognizant Co-Investigator for the Neutron Spectrometer flying aboard the MESSENGER spacecraft.
MESSENGER will make its third and final ...
Picture of the Day – A Double Ringed Basin on Mercury
spacefellowship.com 10/7/2009 — What created the internal second ring of this double ringed basin on Mercury? No one is sure. The unusual feature spans 160 kilometers and was imaged during the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft’s swing past our Solar System’s innermost planet last week.
Double and multiple ringed ...
QinetiQ wins £23m electric propulsion contract for European mission to Mercury
spacefellowship.com 9/4/2009 — QinetiQ today announced that it has signed a £23m contract with EADS Astrium for the supply of the solar-electric propulsion system for European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) BepiColombo spacecraft mission to the planet Mercury.
BepiColombo, due to launch in 2014, is Europe’s first mission ...
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