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September 2009 Top Stories
»» 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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»» 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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»» 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 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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»» 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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»» 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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