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September 2008 Top Stories
»» MESSENGER Sails on Sun's Fire for Second Flyby of Mercury
[Friday, September 5, 2008] On September 4, the MESSENGER team announced that it would not need to implement a scheduled maneuver to adjust the probe's trajectory. This is the fourth time this year that such a maneuver has been called off.
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»» MESSENGER Mission News September 12, 2008
[Friday, September 12, 2008] It is now only slightly more than three weeks before the MESSENGER spacecraft flies by Mercury for the second time.
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»» Mercury's Spider Pantheon Fossae Formation Linked to Asteroid Impact
[Tuesday, September 23, 2008] Dr Solomon and colleagues developed a three-dimensional model of deformations in Mercury's crust in the Caloris basin and then modelled the effect of an asteroid impact at the centre.
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»» MESSENGER's Gamma-Ray Spectrometer Gears up for Mercury Flyby
[Monday, September 29, 2008] One week from today, the MESSENGER spacecraft will fly by Mercury for the second time. As part of the final preparations for this encounter, the Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (GRS) was placed in an "anneal mode" to prepare its detector for optimal performance du
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