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Multispectral imaging data collected by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft during its first fly-by in January this year reveals that volcanism was one of the essential factors that contributed to the shaping of the surface of Mercury. The spacecraft was able to distinguish surface rock units that have been linked to la... |
4 July 2008
02:57 GMT |
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Mercury is probably the solar system's most extreme planet. It is the oldest of all, the densest, the smallest, the closest to the Sun and, ironically, the least studied. Except the Messenger spacecraft (or the Mercury surface, space environment, geochemistry and ranging spacecraft), only one probe has been ever... |
10 April 2008
04:54 GMT |
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During the fly-by around Mercury, the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, or MESSENGER, observed what seemed to be scalloped edged cliffs which had been mostly created by the shrinking action of the planet as it cooled in time. The same evidence has been observed by the Mariner 10 orbiter du... |
18 March 2008
09:36 GMT |
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After waiting for more that three decades for a spacecraft to return to Mercury and photograph the other half of the planet's surface, NASA finally has access to some of the most spectacular images of the solar system, amongst which a giant crater on the surface that presents more than 50 cracks radiating away f... |
31 January 2008
05:56 GMT |
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At last, we can see the images we've all been waiting for more than three decades, since the first mission to the small planet in the solar system. The first fly-by of the spacecraft MESSENGER around Mercury was a complete success revealing images of a surface battered by multiple collisions, relatively similar ... |
17 January 2008
04:31 GMT |
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More than 33 years after the last fly-by around the smallest planet in the solar system, made by the Mariner 10 spacecraft, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft executed its first fly-by around Mercury on the 14th of January. During this first close encounter, MESSENGER had the mission of taking multiple pictures of Merc... |
16 January 2008
05:42 GMT |
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Unbelievable as it may seem, one of the most closest planets to Earth may pose some of the deepest mysteries about the solar system. Mercury, the smallest of all the planets in the solar system, having the closest orbit to the Sun, is the least studied of all. More than half of the planet's surface is not yet ca... |
14 January 2008
08:56 GMT |
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The Messenger spacecraft will be the second space vehicle ever to execute a fly-by maneuver of the smallest planet in the solar system, Mercury, after the spacecraft Mariner 10, which made a total of three during its study of the two inner planets. Launched in 1975, Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to execute a co... |
8 January 2008
03:44 GMT |
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