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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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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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 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 […]
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Looking Out at Our Solar System From MESSENGER
Photo from MESSENGER: A Solar System Family Portrait, from the Inside Out “Comprised of 34 WAC image positions with NAC insets, the majority of this mosaic was obtained on 3 […]
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Earth and Luna As Seen by MESSENGER
Earth and Moon from 114 Million Miles as seen by MESSENGER “In the lower left portion of this image, the Earth can be seen, as well as the much smaller […]