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The American space agency's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) space probe is currently orbiting around in the inner solar system, on a course that will set it into Mercury's orbit in early 2011. The probe has just recently completed its third and final flyby of the inn... |
4 November 2009
03:05 GMT |
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The NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) probe has just recently performed its third flyby of Mercury, and it is currently heading on a course that will allow it to be captured in the planet's orbit in early 2011. As it passed close to the planet after one of its third ap... |
27 October 2009
19:31 GMT |
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Recently, NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft performed its third and final flyby of the innermost planet in our solar system. The flight was meant to cover the knowledge gaps left behind by the other two flybys, and to finish mapping the remainder of the pl... |
22 October 2009
04:32 GMT |
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The third and final flyby that NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft performed around Mercury has revealed a new take on the innermost planet's mysterious bright spot, a feature that astronomers cannot explain yet. It was first discovered during the probe's second flyby, and experts have been hypothesizing on it... |
2 October 2009
02:16 GMT |
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Yesterday, NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft (MESSENGER) did its third and final flyby of Mercury, before its 2011 orbital insertion date. During the approach, areas of the planet that had never before been imaged were analyzed, but the success of the mission was dimi... |
1 October 2009
03:23 GMT |
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NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) probe is scheduled to begin its third and final flyby of the closest planet to the Sun today, before pulling a complex, gravity-assist maneuver that will allow for it to be captured in the planet's orbit starting with March 2011... |
29 September 2009
05:27 GMT |
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In less than a week's time, NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will perform its third and final flyby of the planet, as well as its last gravity assist maneuver. This will set it on a course that will enable it to be captured in the planet's orbi... |
24 September 2009
20:41 GMT |
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The US Department of Energy (DOE)-operated Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennesse, is the proud owner of the world's largest accelerator-based neutron source, the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). Built and funded by an unprecedented cooperative effort from six DOE laboratories (Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley, Br... |
28 July 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun in our solar system, is regarded by many as a dead rock. Not many people know that the small planet houses a very thin atmosphere, which shouldn't be there at all, if we are to believe theories. With surface temperatures of about 450 degrees Celsius (800 degrees Fahrenheit)... |
4 June 2009
09:23 GMT |
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Over the years, Peruvian lakes have shown archaeologists that the traces of pollution they contain were not generated only by modern-day industrial activities, but also by mining done by the Spanish, the Incas, and several other populations on these territories before them. A number of lakes around Peru have importan... |
19 May 2009
21:01 GMT |
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For decades, astronomers have held that the solar system's innermost planet, Mercury, was nothing more than a desolate world, completely dead and inhospitable to human life. All that began to change since last October, when the MESSENGER spacecraft started beaming back images of the planet, which it took during ... |
4 May 2009
02:58 GMT |
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The planet Venus has been a constant apparition across our skies over the recent six months, gradually moving out of sight during the last few weeks. Now, it has entered the twilight, and that means it won't be visible at night, with the naked eye. However, the celestial arena won't remain deserted for long... |
4 April 2009
05:39 GMT |
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According to a new theory, Mars and Mercury could have been part of the same rocky ring around the Sun, in the early days of the solar system. In its earliest form, the distribution of our planets in the system may have looked completely different, and some say that the orbiting ring around the Sun was the birth plac... |
20 January 2009
02:43 GMT |
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Gold has always been a major fuel for humans' imagination, oft-present in their tales, from legends and children's stories to serious novels, stressing on the importance of the glittering material associated with the difference between rich and poor. The Incan, who built vast cities of gold, referred to it ... |
16 December 2008
15:51 GMT |
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After the recent ban that the European Union placed on incandescent light bulbs, a statistics report, formulated by the Worldwatch Institute, shows that the electricity consumption could indeed decrease by more than 40 percent Union-wide, if conventional bulbs are eliminated altogether and carbon fluorescent light (C... |
3 November 2008
04:55 GMT |
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The second Mercury flyby of the Messenger probe of more than 3 weeks ago, on October 6th, provided images of a zone representing 30% of the planet that hadn't been previously photographed from a spacecraft, and added to the data and knowledge scientists have on the first rock from the Sun. The first conclusions... |
30 October 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Yesterday, the MESSENGER spacecraft performed its second Mercury pass-by, and began transmitting data back to Earth. The images showed that our solar system's first member is packed with relatively young, bright craters and a wide rays pattern, associating the planet' s weather phenomenons with similar ones... |
8 October 2008
04:39 GMT |
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On October 6, NASA's Messenger spacecraft will flyby Mercury for the fifth time in history. Equipped with $8.7 million worth of sensors, the probe will photograph most of the planet's surface, descending to an altitude of approximately 124 miles. This will be the second time that Messenger passes by Me... |
1 October 2008
05:03 GMT |
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Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system, but one thing is certain: it wasn't always this small. At least, that's what the data collected by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft during the beginning of this year reveals. In the early history of the solar system, when Mercury was much warmer than it is... |
5 July 2008
04:56 GMT |
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A thermometer is a device that can be used to measure the temperature of a certain object. Some of the most widely used and popular thermometers are the mercury and alcohol ones, although over the years several other types have been built, based on different physical changes that occur with the variation of temperatu... |
4 July 2008
09:01 GMT |
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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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Apple is said to be kicking off what appears to be the final move towards a "greener Apple," sources are reporting. Last year, shareholders and environmental organizations started pointing their fingers at Apple for being too slow at removing environmentally harmful materials from its products. As such, Apple is plan... |
22 May 2008
05:17 GMT |
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For decades, mercury pollution has been linked to many diseases. This heavy metal is known to attack the nervous system. With all that, a new study published in the Health & Place journal connects industrial mercury pollution to higher risk of autism and, for the first time ever, reveals a link between autism risk an... |
8 May 2008
02:51 GMT |
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Mercury is the smallest, most mysterious and closest planet to the Sun. In fact this so called 'mystery' is associated to Mercury also being the least studied planet in the solar system, which may seem kind of strange given the fact that it is relatively close to Earth as compared to the other planets beyon... |
8 May 2008
02:50 GMT |
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Although it is one of the brightest planets in the solar system, Mercury is often referred to as the most difficult planet to spot, mostly because it orbits the Sun so closely. However, the truth is that Mercury is not that hard to locate in the night sky. People living in the northern hemisphere of the planet will h... |
19 April 2008
06:44 GMT |
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It's not big deal when a light bulb breaks. Albeit while talking about tubular fluorescent light bulbs, things can take a very serious turn, mostly because these types of light sources contain small amounts of mercury. If the glass tube is broken, then the mercury can contaminate the environment, not a very good... |
11 April 2008
05:09 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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A man got killed after an unsuccessful attempt at extracting gold from his own computer hardware devices. Tulsa resident Tony Winnett died after weeks of getting intoxicated with mercury, a metal he used to substitute gold from the computer's circuitry. Winnett, aged 55, experimented with mercury for such a long... |
5 April 2008
07:13 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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Data collected during the fly-by around Mercury by NASA's MESSENGER orbiter is still pouring in, revealing new and surprising facts about probably the least studied planet in the solar system. Upon reviewing some of the photographs taken on January 14, NASA astrophysicists discovered a series of craters along th... |
11 March 2008
03:45 GMT |
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New observations on one of the most mysterious planets in the solar system suggest that Mercury has a comet-like tail. However, while the cometary tails are relatively bright and often visible with the naked eye from the surface of the Earth, Mercury's tail is less visible in the visible spectrum. Previous obser... |
6 February 2008
05:14 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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Our planet's magnetic field is strong enough to protect the surface from deadly radiation coming from the Sun, and, without it, the Earth would probably be pretty much dead. The Earth is being daily bombarded with massive amounts of solar wind, still Mercury receives even more radiation considering the fact that... |
31 January 2008
05:03 GMT |
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How many of us have actually seen Mercury the way it really looks like? Most of the images available are black and white pictures. I don't really understand why this is, color photography wasn't invented yesterday, but I'm pretty sure there is a good reason for this. Last week, NASA's MESSENGER sp... |
23 January 2008
10:10 GMT |
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The MESSENGER spacecraft made a successful fly-by of the planet Mercury last week, taking more than 1,200 pictures of the surface, some of them showing what seems to be evidence of past lava flows. Planetary scientist David Rothery said that the lava flow actually sits on top of the original surface crust that formed... |
22 January 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Well, not exactly... I mean they will not reach superluminal speeds or something, not to talk about the high acceleration capabilities or thrust. Astrium, the contractor of the construction of the BepiColumbo spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch in 2013 in a mission to planet Mercury, stated that the probe will r... |
21 January 2008
04:53 GMT |
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This will be ESA's first mission to the closest planet to the Sun and will probably involve the most comprehensive study ever conducted on Mercury. BepiColombo will study the formation and evolution of the planet, its inner regions and its problematic magnetic field, the surface and, last but no the least, some ... |
18 January 2008
09:44 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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The solar system currently consists of four rocky planets and four gas giants, or at least that's what the international scientific community says. Do you notice a pattern? Me neither, not ever since the planet Pluto has been demoted from its status, to the position of minor planet. The four rocky planets in the... |
4 January 2008
10:53 GMT |
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The first space probe to study the solar system's most inner planets was NASA's Mariner 10 mission, and during its survey, in 1974, it detected for the first time a weak magnetic field originating in Mercury's core. Ever since then though, it has been a good subject of debate in the scientific communit... |
3 December 2007
08:09 GMT |
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Mercury Meltdown Revolution is a puzzle game that challenges players to immerse themselves in a colorful world of Sci-Fi machines, crazy characters, and bubbling test tubes. Players take control of a liquid mercury blob, guiding it around traps, door switches, spikes, moving floors and other hazardous elements in ord... |
2 November 2007
10:43 GMT |
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A new and interesting method of combating heavy metal pollution presents itself in the form of...air. It is a novel aerogel that is made mostly of thin air, trapped in large spaces between the gel molecules. With an incredibly low density, it can soak up vast amounts of heavy metals in run-off water from polluted in... |
27 July 2007
03:32 GMT |
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The fluorescent light bulbs, also called energy saving light bulbs, give out the same amount of light as the ordinary, incandescent applications, but with many advantages in terms of energy consumption and greenhouse gas reductions.However, there is one major problem with these lamps, the fact that they contain merc... |
9 July 2007
10:35 GMT |
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Today, NASA published the first pictures of Venus, as seen by the Messenger probe, heading for Mercury. In a rehearsal for the big event of meeting Mercury up close, the Messenger space probe is swinging by Venus in a slingshot maneuver that will propel it towards the smallest planet in our solar system.NASA's ... |
15 June 2007
03:31 GMT |
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In a rehearsal for the big event of meeting Mercury up close, the Messenger space probe is going to swing by Venus in a slingshot maneuver that will propel it towards the smallest planet in our solar system.NASA's spacecraft Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) is a mission l... |
5 June 2007
02:53 GMT |
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They're turning increasingly common and seem to soon replace the traditional incandescent bulbs just the way DVDs replaced cassettes. But compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) are breakable and contain a toxic liquid metal, that's why many regard them as harmful for the environment. Now experts show that m... |
21 May 2007
04:05 GMT |
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This week, we will have a real "traffic jam" in the night sky. Four planets in our solar system plus the Moon will be visible even with the naked eye in the western sky. They are the closest planets to the Earth, but only for a brief period of time in a whole year can they be seen together in the sky. Amateur and pr... |
19 May 2007
07:10 GMT |
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