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MESSENGER Reveals Mercury as a Dynamic Planet »» MESSENGER Reveals Mercury as a Dynamic Planet

[Thursday, April 30, 2009] Analyses of data from the NASA sponsored MESSENGER spacecraft’s second flyby of Mercury in October 2008 show that the planet’s atmosphere, magnetosphere, and geological past are all characterized by much greater levels of activity than first suspected.

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NASA To Hold Briefing To Discuss New Findings About Planet Mercury »» NASA To Hold Briefing To Discuss New Findings About Planet Mercury

[Tuesday, April 28, 2009] NASA will host a media teleconference on Thursday, April 30, at 2 p.m. EDT to discuss new data and findings revealed by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft known as MESSENGER.

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NASA MESSENGER Mission News: MESSENGER Team Remembers Dr. Mario H. Acuna »» NASA MESSENGER Mission News: MESSENGER Team Remembers Dr. Mario H. Acuna

[Tuesday, March 24, 2009] Mario H. Acuna, a senior astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Co-Investigator on the MESSENGER mission, died on March 5, 2009, after a long battle against multiple myeloma.

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MESSENGER Continues Hunt for Ever-Elusive Vulcanoids »» MESSENGER Continues Hunt for Ever-Elusive Vulcanoids

[Tuesday, February 10, 2009] The mission's imaging team is taking advantage of the probe's proximity to the sun to continue their search for vulcanoids - small, rocky asteroids that have been postulated to circle the Sun in stable orbits inside the orbit of Mercury.

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Second Group of Mercury Craters Named »» Second Group of Mercury Craters Named

[Sunday, December 21, 2008] The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved a proposal from the MESSENGER Science Team to name 15 craters on Mercury.

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MESSENGER Team to Present New Mercury Science Results at AGU Fall Meeting »» MESSENGER Team to Present New Mercury Science Results at AGU Fall Meeting

[Friday, December 12, 2008] Members of the MESSENGER science team will present a range of new findings from the spacecraft's studies of the planet Mercury during the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting next week in San Francisco.

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NASA MESSENGER Completes Two-Part Maneuver; Poised for Third Mercury Encounter »» NASA MESSENGER Completes Two-Part Maneuver; Poised for Third Mercury Encounter

[Tuesday, December 9, 2008] MESSENGER completed the second part of a two-part deep-space maneuver today, providing the remaining 10% velocity change needed to place the probe on course to fly by Mercury for the third time in September 2009.

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Deep-Space Maneuver Positions MESSENGER for Third Mercury Encounter »» Deep-Space Maneuver Positions MESSENGER for Third Mercury Encounter

[Thursday, December 4, 2008] MESSENGER completed the first part of a two-part deep-space maneuver today, providing the expected 90% of the velocity change needed to place the spacecraft on course to fly by Mercury for the third time in September 2009.

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MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory on Mercury »» MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory on Mercury

[Wednesday, October 29, 2008] A NASA spacecraft gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet.

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NASA To Release Science Results, Images From Second Mercury Flyby »» NASA To Release Science Results, Images From Second Mercury Flyby

[Monday, October 27, 2008] NASA will hold a Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 29, to announce findings and release new images from the Oct. 6 flyby of Mercury by a NASA spacecraft.

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NASA MESSENGER Sets Record for Accuracy of Planetary Flyby »» NASA MESSENGER Sets Record for Accuracy of Planetary Flyby

[Wednesday, October 8, 2008] By using solar sailing MESSENGER navigators have achieved a new record for the smallest miss distance between the intended and actual closest approach distance during a flyby of a planet other than Earth.

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NASA MESSENGER Image: Mercury as Never Seen Before »» NASA MESSENGER Image: Mercury as Never Seen Before

[Tuesday, October 7, 2008] For most of the terrain east of Kuiper, toward the limb (edge) of the planet, the departing images are the first spacecraft views of that portion of Mercury’s surface.

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MESSENGER Flyby of Mercury »» MESSENGER Flyby of Mercury

[Monday, October 6, 2008] At a little after 4:40 a.m. EDT, MESSENGER skimmed 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the surface of Mercury in the second of three flybys of the planet.

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MESSENGER Instruments Take Aim at Mercury »» MESSENGER Instruments Take Aim at Mercury

[Sunday, October 5, 2008] "All spacecraft sub-systems and instruments reported nominal operations indicating that MESSENGER is ready for its second encounter with Mercury," said MESSENGER Systems Engineer Eric Finnegan of APL.

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MESSENGER Beams Back First Approach Images of Mercury »» MESSENGER Beams Back First Approach Images of Mercury

[Friday, October 3, 2008] MESSENGER mission operators have received the first optical navigation images from the spacecraft. "We will be taking seven additional sets over the next three days as the spacecraft approaches the planet," said Mission Systems Engineer Eric Finnegan.

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NASA'S Messenger Spacecraft Returns To Mercury »» NASA'S Messenger Spacecraft Returns To Mercury

[Wednesday, October 1, 2008] A NASA spacecraft will conduct the second of three flybys of Mercury on Oct. 6 to photograph most of its remaining unseen surface and collect science data.

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