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»» New NASA HD App for iPad With Expanded Content Available Free
[Thursday, September 2, 2010] NASA has unveiled NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad. The application is available free of charge at the App Store from Apple.
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»» Earth and Moon from 114 Million Miles as seen by MESSENGER
[Friday, August 20, 2010] In the lower left portion of this image, the Earth can be seen, as well as the much smaller Moon to Earth's right. When MESSENGER took this image, a distance of 183 million kilometers (114 million miles) separated the spacecraft and Earth.
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»» MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals New Information About Mercury
[Thursday, July 15, 2010] The first spacecraft designed by NASA to orbit Mercury is giving scientists a new perspective on the planet's atmosphere and evolution.
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»» MESSENGER's Odometer Reading: Four Billion Miles!
[Monday, March 1, 2010] Today the MESSENGER spacecraft crossed the four-billion-mile mark since its launch. The probe has completed about 81 percent of its journey toward its destination to be the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury.
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»» Voyager Celebrates 20-Year-Old Valentine to Solar System
[Monday, February 15, 2010] Twenty years ago NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft had sailed beyond the outermost planet in our solar system and turned its camera inward to snap a series of final images that would be its parting valentine to the string of planets it called home.
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»» The Obama Space Vision for NASA: Massive Paradigm Shifts Ahead
[Monday, February 1, 2010] In announcing its $19.0 billion FY 2011 NASA budget today, the Obama Administration has made it very clear that it intends to attempt a paradigm shift in the way that America explores and utilizes space.
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»» MESSENGER Team Releases First Global Map of Mercury
[Wednesday, December 23, 2009] NASA's MESSENGER mission team and cartographic experts from the U. S. Geological Survey have created a critical tool for planning the first orbital observations of the planet Mercury.
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»» Deep-Space Maneuver Positions MESSENGER for Mercury Orbit Insertion
[Wednesday, December 2, 2009] The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft completed its fifth and final deep-space maneuver of the mission today, providing the expected velocity change needed to place the spacecraft on course to enter into orbit about Mercury in March 2011.
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»» MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory on Mercury
[Tuesday, November 3, 2009] A NASA spacecraft's third and final flyby of Mercury gives scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and provides new scientific findings about this relatively unknown world.
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»» New Images & Findings from 3rd Mercury Flyby to Be Released
[Thursday, October 29, 2009] NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Nov. 3, to announce scientific findings and release new images from the third and final flyby of Mercury by MESSENGER.
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»» Unseen Mercury Revealed
[Wednesday, September 30, 2009] Yesterday, as the spacecraft approached Mercury for the mission's third flyby of the Solar System’s innermost planet, MESSENGER captured this striking view.
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»» A High-resolution Look over Mercury's Northern Horizon
[Wednesday, September 30, 2009] During MESSENGER's approach to Mercury yesterday, the NAC acquired a high-resolution, 62-image mosaic of the sunlit crescent planet.
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»» MESSENGER Flyby of Mercury
[Tuesday, September 29, 2009] Shortly before 5:55 p.m. EDT, MESSENGER skimmed 228 kilometers (141 miles) above the surface of Mercury in its third and final flyby of the planet.
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»» MESSENGER's Neutron Spectrometer Zeros In on Mercury's Crust
[Monday, September 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.
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»» MESSENGER Spacecraft Prepares for Final Pass by Mercury
[Saturday, September 26, 2009] NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft known as MESSENGER will fly by Mercury for the third and final time on Sept. 29.
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»» NASA to Preview Mission's Third Flight Past Mercury
[Monday, September 21, 2009] NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 23, to preview the third and final flyby of Mercury by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft known as MESSENGER.
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