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»» Mercury Features Receive New Names
[Monday, April 28, 2008] The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved new names for features on Mercury and agreed on a new theme for fossae on the planet.
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»» Mercury's shifting, rolling past - Simulation reveals possible cause of Mercury's distinctive features
[Tuesday, March 18, 2008] Patterns of scalloped-edged cliffs or lobate scarps on Mercury's surface are thrust faults that are consistent with the planet shrinking and cooling with time.
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»» Craters in Caloris
[Wednesday, February 27, 2008] As MESSENGER sped by Mercury on January 14, 2008, the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) captured this image, which includes the edge of the planet against the blackness of space.
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»» NASA MESSENGER News- One Month Ago ...
[Friday, February 15, 2008] One month ago, on January 14, 2008, MESSENGER became the first spacecraft in over three decades to visit Mercury, snapping images of a large portion of the planet's surface previously unseen by spacecraft.
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»» MESSENGER Team Begins Planning for Second Mercury Encounter
[Thursday, February 7, 2008] Little more than three weeks after MESSENGER's first historic flyby of Mercury, the team this week began mapping out its trajectory and observation plans for the probe's second pass of the planet this fall.
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»» Surprises Stream back from Mercury's MESSENGER
[Wednesday, January 30, 2008] "MESSENGER has shown that Mercury is even more different from the Moon than we'd thought," said Science Team Co-Investigator James Head, professor at Brown University and chair of the mission's Geology Discipline Group.
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»» MESSENGER's Departing Shots
[Tuesday, January 29, 2008] After MESSENGER completed its successful flyby of Mercury, the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), took images of the receding planet.
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»» NASA To Release Science Results and New Images from Mercury Flyby
[Monday, January 28, 2008] NASA will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 30, to announce scientific findings and release never-before-seen images of Mercury.
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»» A Closer Look at the Previously Unseen Side of Mercury
[Monday, January 28, 2008] Two weeks ago, on January 14, 2008, MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to see the side of Mercury shown in this image.
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»» MESSENGER Dances by Matisse
[Sunday, January 27, 2008] As the MESSENGER team continues to study the high-resolution images taken during the Mercury flyby encounter on January 14, 2008, scarps (cliffs) that extend for long distances are discovered.
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»» Mercury's Long Cliffs
[Sunday, January 27, 2008] As the MESSENGER team continues to study the high-resolution images taken during the Mercury flyby encounter on January 14, 2008, scarps (cliffs) that extend for long distances are discovered.
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»» MESSENGER Looks to the North
[Saturday, January 26, 2008] As MESSENGER sped by Mercury on January 14, 2008, the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) captured this shot looking toward Mercury's north pole
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»» MESSENGER's Different Views
[Saturday, January 26, 2008] During MESSENGERs flyby of Mercury on January 14, 2008, part of the planned sequence of observations included taking images of the same portion of Mercurys surface from five different viewing angles.
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»» Counting Mercury's Craters
[Thursday, January 24, 2008] One of many investigations underway includes identifying and measuring the impact craters on these previously unseen regions.
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»» Mercury in Color
[Wednesday, January 23, 2008] This color image was generated by combining three separate images taken through WAC filters sensitive to light in different wavelengths
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