Mercury is Tectonically Active, NASA “Images obtained by NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft reveal previously undetected small fault scarps– cliff-like landforms that resemble stair steps. […]
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MESSENGER Gets a Reprieve
MESSENGER’s Operations at Mercury Extended “MESSENGER mission controllers conducted a maneuver yesterday to raise the spacecraft’s minimum altitude sufficiently to extend orbital operations and further delay the probe’s inevitable impact […]
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NASA and ASI Sign Mercury MOU
NASA and Italian Space Agency Sign Agreement on Exploration of Mercury, NASA “At a meeting in Rome Thursday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Enrico Saggese […]
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Mercury Messenger Milestone
Mercury 100% Coverage, NASA “At the very end of 2012, MESSENGER obtained the final image needed to view 100% of Mercury’s surface under daylight conditions. The mosaics shown here cover […]
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Half a Century of Americans in Orbit
Celebrating America’s First Manned Orbital Flight – Friendship 7 50th Anniversary “February 20th marks the 50th anniversary of the day in 1962 when U.S. Senator John Glenn piloted his Friendship […]
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Johnsville Centrifuge Gondola Returns Home
Johnsville Centrifuge Gondola Returns Home To New Museum i>”May 5, 2011 was a historic day for Bucks County as the original gondola of the Johnsville Centrifuge that was used for […]
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MESSENGER's First Orbital Image of Mercury
First MESSENGER Image of Mercury From Orbit “Early this morning, at 5:20 am EDT, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first ever obtained from a […]
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MESSENGER is Orbiting Mercury
MESSENGER Is In Orbit Around Mercury “NASA’s MESSENGER probe has become the first spacecraft to enter orbit about Mercury. At 9:10 p.m. EDT, engineers in the MESSENGER Mission Operations Center […]
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MESSENGER Prepares For Orbit
MESSENGER Primed for Mercury Orbit “After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system and six planetary flybys, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on […]
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10 Days From Mercury Orbit
MESSENGER Is Ten Days from Mercury Orbit Insertion “Ten days from now – on March 17 – the MESSENGER spacecraft will execute a 15-minute maneuver that will place it into […]