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March 2011 Top Stories
»» Oxygen Isotope Variation in Meteorite Provides Insight Into Planet Formation
[Thursday, March 3, 2011] NASA research on a meteorite has provided new evidence that the inner planets formed from materials spread far and wide in the early solar system, and not just from nearby matter.
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»» NRC: Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022 - Executive Summary
[Monday, March 7, 2011] This report was requested by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to review the status of planetary science in the United States and to develop a comprehensive strategy that will continue these advances in the coming decade.
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»» MESSENGER Is Ten Days from Mercury Orbit Insertion
[Tuesday, March 8, 2011] On March 17 the MESSENGER spacecraft will execute a 15-minute maneuver that will place it into orbit about Mercury, making it the first craft ever to do so, and initiating a one-year science campaign to understand the innermost planet.
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»» NASA Media Telecon Previews First Spacecraft To Orbit Mercury
[Thursday, March 10, 2011] NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 15, to discuss the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.
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»» First Mercury Orbiter Carries Plasma Spectrometer
[Monday, March 14, 2011] MESSENGER was launched in the summer of 2004, with flybys of Venus in 2006, 2007 and three Mercury flybys between 2008 and 2009. On March 17 this year, MESSENGER will achieve orbital insertion above the planet closest to the Sun.
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»» NASA's MESSENGER Primed for Mercury Orbit
[Tuesday, March 15, 2011] After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system and six planetary flybys, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on at around 9 p.m. EDT on March 17, 2011.
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»» MESSENGER Orbit Maneuver a "Go"
[Thursday, March 17, 2011] The command sequence containing instructions to maneuver MESSENGER into orbit about Mercury is now executing, the science instruments have been turned off, and the propulsion system is conditioned for its big show this evening.
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»» MESSENGER Is In Orbit Around Mercury
[Friday, March 18, 2011] At 9:10 p.m. EDT, engineers in the MESSENGER Mission Operations Center at APL in Laurel, Md., received radiometric signals confirming nominal burn shutdown and successful insertion of the MESSENGER probe into orbit around the planet Mercury.
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»» Planetary Science Decadal Survey Newsletter #7
[Monday, March 21, 2011] This is the seventh newsletter to the community regarding the planetary science decadal survey.
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»» NASA To Release Messenger's First Orbital Images Of Mercury
[Monday, March 28, 2011] NASA will release the first orbital image of Mercury's surface, including previously unseen terrain, on Tuesday afternoon, March 29.
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»» First MESSENGER Image of Mercury From Orbit
[Tuesday, March 29, 2011] Of Interest: Early this morning, at 5:20 am EDT, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury.
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