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»» NASA MESSENGER Mercury Image: Dickens Crater
[Tuesday, January 3, 2012] The crater at the center of this image is named Dickens, after Charles Dickens, the English novelist who lived from 1812 to 1870. Among Dickens' famous works is A Christmas Carol.
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»» MESSENGER Team Presents Latest Mercury Findings at AGU Fall Meeting
[Thursday, December 8, 2011] Members of the MESSENGER team will present a broad range of findings from the spacecraft's orbital investigation of Mercury during the 2011 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), which takes place this week, December 5-9, in San Francisco.
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»» NASA MESSENGER Image: Seeing What Mariner 10 Did Not See
[Friday, December 2, 2011] This image was acquired as a high-resolution targeted observation. Targeted observations are images of a small area on Mercury's surface at resolutions much higher than the 250-meter/pixel morphology base map or the 1-km/pixel color base map.
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»» NASA MESSENGER Image: Crater Beckett
[Wednesday, November 30, 2011] This image was acquired as part of MDIS's high-resolution surface morphology base map. The surface morphology base map will cover more than 90% of Mercury's surface with an average resolution of 250 meters/pixel (0.16 miles/pixel or 820 feet/pixel).
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»» NASA MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Crater Juan de Mena
[Monday, November 28, 2011] The small crater at the left side of this image is named for Juan de Mena, a Spanish poet of the 15th century. Mena has extensive bright rays, which can be better appreciated in the global map of Mercury (right on the equator, part way in from the left).
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»» NASA MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Crater Kertesz in 3D
[Tuesday, November 22, 2011] These images were acquired as high-resolution targeted observations. Targeted observations are images of a small area on Mercury's surface at resolutions much higher than the 250-meter/pixel morphology base map or the 1-kilometer/pixel color base map.
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»» NASA MESSENGER Image: One of Mercury's Two "Hot Poles"
[Monday, November 21, 2011] The small green square in this image marks the point at zero degrees latitude and 180 degrees longitude on Mercury's surface. This is one of Mercury's two "hot poles."
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»» MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Dominici Crater
[Tuesday, November 15, 2011] Dominici crater, the very bright crater to the top of this image, exhibits bright rays and contains hollows. This crater lies upon the peak ring of Homer Basin, a very degraded peak ring basin that has been filled by volcanism.
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»» MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Peaks in Caloris Basin
[Friday, November 4, 2011] This image shows a portion of the eastern edge of Caloris basin. The floor of the Caloris basin is filled with volcanic plains, while the Caloris Montes, a ring of mountainous peaks, are found along the basin's rim.
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»» Image: A Global View of Mercury from Orbit
[Wednesday, November 2, 2011] This mosaic is made primarily of MDIS images acquired as part of the surface morphology base map, which during the first six months of MESSENGER's orbital mission mapped over 98.7% of the surface with nearly 22,000 images.
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»» The Sleepy Hollows of Mercury - Video Feature
[Friday, October 21, 2011] NASA's MESSENGER probe has discovered a surprise on Mercury in the form of hollows in the surface of the innermost planet. What's creating these hollows?
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»» MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Crater Enwonwu
[Tuesday, October 18, 2011] The beautiful rayed crater at the left edge of the image is named for Benedict Enwonwu, a Nigerian sculptor and painter. Enwonwu crater is about 38 km in diameter. Its bright rays extend for hundreds of kilometers from the rim of the crater.
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»» MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Chain of Craters
[Thursday, October 13, 2011] This image, captured by the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), shows a number of trails of small craters. These trails, called secondary crater chains, are formed when ejecta from an initial impact are launched outward.
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