http://www.mercurytoday.com/ Mercury Today - Mercury News as it Happens en-us Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:27:00 PST kcowing@spaceref.com mkboucher@spaceref.com Copyright 2006, SpaceRef Interactive Inc. http://images.spaceref.com/mercury.today.rss.jpg http://www.mercurytoday.com/ 101 52 Mercury Today, a service of SpaceRef http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=31628 Three New Co-Investigators Added to MESSENGER Team Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:46:21 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=28095 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. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:26:15 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=31134 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. Tue, 28 Apr 2009 8:23:18 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=27992 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:36:24 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=27836 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. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:55:39 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=30577 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. Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:10:35 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=30180 The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved a proposal from the MESSENGER Science Team to name 15 craters on Mercury. Sun, 21 Dec 2008 9:02:53 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=27165 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. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:49:03 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=30066 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. Tue, 9 Dec 2008 8:02:34 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=30038 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. Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:10:46