http://www.mercurytoday.com/ Mercury Today - Mercury News as it Happens en-us Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:27:00 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=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 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=29279 During MESSENGER's approach to Mercury yesterday, the NAC acquired a high-resolution, 62-image mosaic of the sunlit crescent planet. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 7:58:27 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=32506 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. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:31 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=29270 Scientists Set for Final Spacecraft Flyby of Mercury Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:51:45 http://www.mercurytoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=29269 "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. Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:50:46