http://www.mercurytoday.com/ Mercury Today - Mercury News as it Happens en-us Fri, 3 Sep 2010 0:27:00 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=34753 In the lower left portion of this image, the Earth can be seen, as well as the much smaller Moon to Earth's right. When MESSENGER took this image, a distance of 183 million kilometers (114 million miles) separated the spacecraft and Earth. Fri, 20 Aug 2010 4:45:25 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=34696 NASA Solicitation: Development of Characterization Techniques for Advanced High Temperature Materials in Space Launch Applications Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:28:23 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=31253 The first spacecraft designed by NASA to orbit Mercury is giving scientists a new perspective on the planet's atmosphere and evolution. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:24:45 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=30442 NASA and the City of Cleveland Collaborate for Robotics Communications Testbed Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:39:29 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=33608 Today the MESSENGER spacecraft crossed the four-billion-mile mark since its launch. The probe has completed about 81 percent of its journey toward its destination to be the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury. Mon, 1 Mar 2010 9:58:47 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=29894 NASA's MESSENGER mission team and cartographic experts from the U. S. Geological Survey have created a critical tool for planning the first orbital observations of the planet Mercury. Wed, 23 Dec 2009 7:49:13 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=32956 The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft completed its fifth and final deep-space maneuver of the mission today, providing the expected velocity change needed to place the spacecraft on course to enter into orbit about Mercury in March 2011. Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:11:41 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=29553 A NASA spacecraft's third and final flyby of Mercury gives scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and provides new scientific findings about this relatively unknown world. Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:04:35 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=29529 NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Nov. 3, to announce scientific findings and release new images from the third and final flyby of Mercury by MESSENGER. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:50:46 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=29280 Yesterday, as the spacecraft approached Mercury for the mission's third flyby of the Solar System’s innermost planet, MESSENGER captured this striking view. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 7:59:12