Mercury Missions · Messenger · BepiColombo · Mariner 10
Other Sites · SpaceRef · Commercial Space Watch · NASA Watch · SpaceRef Asia · SpaceRef Canada · SpaceRef Europe · Venus Today · Moon Today · Mars Today · Mars TV · Jupiter Today · Saturn Today · Astrobiology · Space Wire · Space Elevator · SpaceRef Store · Nano2Sol
»» Mercury's Magnetic Field Measured by MESSENGER Orbiter
[Wednesday, May 16, 2012] Researchers working with NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft report the frequent detections of Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) waves at the edge of the innermost planet's magnetosphere.
° 
»» MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Large Craters in Goethe Basin
[Saturday, May 5, 2012] The two large craters in this scene are located in Goethe basin, a 383-km-diameter basin in the northern plains of Mercury. Portions of these craters are in areas of permanent shadow and host radar-bright materials.
° 
»» Dr. Seuss, Alvin Ailey among the Names Selected for 23 Mercury Craters
[Thursday, May 3, 2012] The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved a proposal from the MESSENGER Science Team to assign 23 new names to impact craters on Mercury.
° 
»» BepiColombo Planetary Orbiter and Transfer Module mated for first time
[Thursday, May 3, 2012] The Structural and Thermal Models of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Mercury Transfer Module were mated for the first time on 11 April 2012.
° 
»» NASA MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Crater Debussy
[Thursday, April 26, 2012] This color image of Mercury's limb captures Debussy, a crater 80 km (50 mi.) in diameter, as well as some if its extensive rays.
° 
»» NASA MESSENGER Image: Permanent Shadows at Mercury's South Pole
[Monday, April 2, 2012] The highest-resolution radar image of Mercury's south polar region made from the Arecibo Observatoryis shown in white on MESSENGER orbital images colorized by the faction of time the surface is illuminated.
° 
»» Movie of Mercury's South Pole
[Saturday, March 31, 2012] This movie shows 89 WAC images of Mercury's south polar region acquired over one complete Mercury solar day (176 Earth days) in 2011. This dataset enabled the illumination conditions at Mercury's south polar region to be quantified.
° 
»» Image: Highs and Lows of Goethe Basin on Mercury
[Thursday, March 29, 2012] The width of this image is about 250 kilometers (150 miles) Topographic information from the Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) is used to colorize a image mosaic of Goethe basin, located in Mercury's northern region.
° 
»» NASA MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Close-up of Craters Hosting Radar-bright Deposits
[Monday, March 26, 2012] MESSENGER's highly eccentric orbit, which passes low over Mercury's north polar region, enables higher-resolution views of Mercury's surface in the north than in the south.
° 
»» Messenger Provides New Look at Mercury's Landscape, Metallic Core, and Polar Shadows
[Thursday, March 22, 2012] Since moving into orbit about Mercury a little over one year ago, the spacecraft has captured nearly 100,000 images and returned data that have revealed new information about the planet.
° 
»» Mercury Transits Yield Precise Solar Radius
[Wednesday, March 21, 2012] A group of scientists from Hawaii, Brazil and California has measured the diameter of the Sun with unprecedented accuracy by using a spacecraft to time the transits of the planet Mercury across the face of the Sun in 2003 and 2006.
° 
»» NASA Dawn Image of Vesta: Mosaic of Visible and Infrared Spectrometer Data
[Monday, March 19, 2012] This mosaic shows the location of the data acquired by VIR (visible and infrared spectrometer) during the HAMO (high-altitude mapping orbit) phase of the Dawn mission.
° 
»» NASA MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Crater Picasso
[Thursday, March 15, 2012] This image, taken with the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), gives us a close-up look at Picasso crater. Named for Pablo Picasso, this crater is easily identifiable by the interesting comma-shaped pit on its floor.
° 
FOR NEWSREADERS
